Thread: 6.5 PRC - What's everyone doing reloading wise?

I have one. Not a lot of experience though. Had it for 6 months.
With your longer barrel 2217 should be fine. Mine is 20" so needed a few more herbs and get my best velocity/accuracy combo from N565 and R26. I have 1.5 pots of N565 left and then its done. It seems to be best.

From my 20" barrel I got 2850fps with 2217 - so you should get an easy 3K.I get close to 2.9k with N565 and R26.

124 grn hammers are at 3K with N565 and very accurate.

Every powder and projectile I have tried has been great for accuracy (rifle Mauser M18) So far I have only tried 140 AMax, 140 Berger, 140 Gold Dot and 124 Hammers. The Amax kill kill best - that tells me the ELDM will be good. I 'havent shot anything with the hammers

The internet babble says that you don't need magnum primers. I just use ordinary Federal LR - but will try magnum to see what difference it makes to SD and velocity.

All my projectiles have been 20thou off the lands.

Originally Posted by Tahr

I have one. Not a lot of experience though. Had it for 6 months.
With your longer barrel 2217 should be fine. Mine is 20" so needed a few more herbs and get my best velocity/accuracy combo from N565 and R26. I have 1.5 pots of N565 left and then its done. It seems to be best.

From my 20" barrel I got 2850fps with 2217 - so you should get an easy 3K.I get close to 2.9k with N565 and R26.

124 grn hammers are at 3K with N565 and very accurate.

Every powder and projectile I have tried has been great for accuracy (rifle Mauser M18) So far I have only tried 140 AMax, 140 Berger, 140 Gold Dot and 124 Hammers. The Amax kill kill best - that tells me the ELDM will be good. I 'havent shot anything with the hammers

The internet babble says that you don't need magnum primers. I just use ordinary Federal LR - but will try magnum to see what difference it makes to SD and velocity.

All my projectiles have been 20thou off the lands.

Nice. I've been toying with the idea of a shorter barreled PRC, basic idea to get the same performance of a 24" Creedmoor from and 18-20" barrel. Biggest turn off is the total lack of components.