Thread: Seriously underrated 6.5x47 Lapua

The velocity you get from the TINY 6.5x47L cartridge from a short barrel is extraordinary. Mine would put one round inside a 1cm dot without touching the edges, from a cold barrel every day. I did it for a few weeks before I got bored of it. Back when my range was behind the house I would walk up, fire one round, walk home. My only problem with my 2209 load was velocity spread, which was a bit of a non-issue as I never shot strings.

Lapua put serious thought into the round and it shows.

Shot a lot of rabbits at over 400m with that rifle and deer and Tahr to 550m. I would not have shot the 550m Tahr but I thought it was one I shot at 400m that was wounded, so I ended up with two.

My new one will also be on a Sako 75 but this time a sporter weight. I bought a barrel from Gimp because he ordered the wrong contour and ended up with a semi varmint barrel, sort of. Once my pretty 75 laminate channel was cut for it I was stuck with it. Made the rifle heavy and un-balanced but man did it shoot. I used to sight in in two rounds then knock all the drawing pins out of the paper. I cut that barrel from 26" to 20" with no loss of velocity.

2810ft/sec with 140 Amax over 2209/Federal small rifle magnum primers.

This one will get a 20" barrel in the original factory contour and a DPT muzzle forward can.

I still had 6kg of 2209 and thousands of magnum primers till last week when I brought my gear home and my wife helped me unload. We were in a hurry and my 2209 ended up sitting inside a car next to a window and baked like a potato. I assume its cactus. Was hot to the touch and stunk to high heaven.

Anyone want 6kg of ADI22something?