Thread: 18" 6.5 PRC

Just got this Tikka 6.5 PRC going this morning



It has an 18" Bartlein 1-8 #2b 5R barrel



The customer is going to the factory stock until he gets a carbon one off one of his mates



Initial load development is done & the velocity is reasonable from the short barrel



Pretty happy with it & its off to its owner next week

Where do we get a 6.5 prc chamber reamed in NZ?

Tidy

Originally Posted by Tribrit

Where do we get a 6.5 prc chamber reamed in NZ?

I imported one & go gauge, along with many others over the years

That's great. Im impressed that there is a real edge there over the "old" 6.5's in a shorter barrel and am happy to resile from my former scepticism about the caliber not giving a decent edge over the x55.

Is this VCs one?

Originally Posted by Tahr

That's great. Im impressed that there is a real edge there over the "old" 6.5's in a shorter barrel and am happy to resile from my former scepticism about the caliber not giving a decent edge over the x55.

Still not enough of an edge over my 18" .260 which does 2810fps with the 143ELDX.

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Originally Posted by Kiwi Greg

Just got this Tikka 6.5 PRC going this morning



It has an 18" Bartlein 1-8 #2b 5R barrel



The customer is going to the factory stock until he gets a carbon one off one of his mates



Initial load development is done & the velocity is reasonable from the short barrel



Pretty happy with it & its off to its owner next week

That's good practical speeds out of the 18 inch barrel.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Is this VCs one?

Nope

Hopefully tikka/Sako will put out the 6.5PRC in the future.........

Originally Posted by 25 /08 IMP

Still not enough of an edge over my 18" .260 which does 2810fps with the 143ELDX.

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My 21" x55 is 2840 but I expect that Im on the pressure edge. Yours is fizzing, but I expect the PRC does it with a bit up its sleeve.

Originally Posted by outdoorlad

Hopefully tikka/Sako will put out the 6.5PRC in the future.........

Iv been waiting for a 85 Carbonlight in 6.5prc. If it ever happens I'm buying one immediately.

In the meantime I'm pretty close to having a prc built on a blue printed Model 7 action.

Shot it again in the weekend & its all sorted, definitely not a hot load.



Doesn't mind the 147 ELDM either, tends to leap around a bit when the trigger is squeezed



Its very happy with the Factory ammo, even hit the aim point for a change just shows how much the POI changes between loads especially with the drop in velocity



Now its waiting for its trip to its new owner

@stagstalker

Thanks for having this rifle built for me Greg!

It's definitley the most accurate rifle i have owned to date and in a compact size for bush to Tops hunting!

Here is what this rifle looks like now with the Carbon stock on it!



The load development was a bit drawn out as i started using the 143eld-x seating depth from the dummy round you supplied. I was getting the odd random pressure spike. Turned out you had it jammed 0.015" into the lands. It did shoot great like that usually though.
Check out this 318m group i shot while testing with it jammed.
Velocity on this load is 2915fps avg.



So i started again at 0.010" off the lands. Accuracy wasn't what i wanted but i sorted pressure out. With a MagnetoSpeed chrony i found a stable powder/velocity load. 56.6gr RL26 and then did a seating depth test as 0.010" jump wasnt working for me.


The 143gr ELD-X liked 0.050" and 0.120" jump.
I settled with 0.050"jump to keep as much velocity as i could - 2900fps avg ES~20fps. It shots 0.5moa anytime with this load.(tighter usually)