harps
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Where can you by 6.5x280 ack imp brass? That sounds interestin!
6.5-06 build but to AI it or Gibbs it or leave it like it is?
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harps
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What size action are you running that 260 AI throug? What kind speed are you gettin?
Explain to me what the tad shorter neck hurts. Nothing if you stay up on the carbon ring like you should on any rifle.
I'm using Lapua 06 brass in my nephews 6.5x06AI and is an absolute hammer with H1000 and 140 Bergers.
antelopedundee
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antelopedundee
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I have a lot of 140s to use up, but I normally stick with 130s.
harps
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Thank you
antelopedundee
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What other issues besides promoting carbon ring formation would too short of a neck cause?
TAWS,
Not sure if you've received a reply or not on your question (have not read the entire thread yet) but I use both 25-06 and 270 Hornady brass. I have found the neck wall thickness to be the same regardless of which one I use. "I think" Hornady uses the same "blank case" to make those two because the neck thickness is the same after being necked to 6.5.
I have two 6.5-06 rifles, had one for a three years...the other is a Savage self build that I just completed recently.
Here she is sitting on the 600 yard bench.
greenejc
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Go ahead and make it an AI. You're going to be mostly making your own cases anyway, but with the AI, you get more performance while only having two steps to fireforming AI brass, the first of which allows you to use the 6.5 06 at full house loads while making AI brass. However, if you want a Gibbs type casing, that just takes a little more work with the fireforming.
Here's something I just came across, so I submit it here as a followup to my previous remark. I think I mentioned something similar in an earlier post on this thread, too. It's about what I was questioning about the need for the expanded AI case. While I'm still early in my development of load data for this cartridge, I am not filling even the non-AI, unexpanded case. I submitted earlier a list of the percent-full of various MAX loads and they weren't even at 100% for the unexpanded case. The only reason for blowing out a case into AI is to get more powder capacity. So if your case isn't full before the case shoulder gets blown out, it seems to me there is no point in blowing it out in the first place.
Now, in my case, I have to blow it out anyway, because that's what the chamber is in the rifle I bought.
However, I just bought a subscription at loaddata.com, and I was perusing some of the wildcat calibers I am fooling around with right now. There were several sets of load data listed for the 6.5mm-06. One I looked at had this very interesting tidbit of info:
Warning! Notes: Standard twist: 10". Special twist: 12", 14". The 6.5mm-06 Improved, sometimes called the .256-06 Improved is obviously not as efficient as the standard 6.5mm-06 which tends to indicate that the maximum efficient case capacity has been reached and that the 6.5mm-06 Improved is somewhat over bore capacity thus resulting in not quite as efficient cartridge as the standard version. The following loads bear this out because these were made in the same barrel, by first chambering the barrel for the standard 6.5mm-06, then later it was rechambered for the "improved" version so that a good comparison was obtained for the two cartridges in the same barrel. (Handbook for Shooters & Reloaders/Vol. 1 - P.O. Ackley, 1962)
According to this info, even PO Ackley himself discovered the same thing way back in 1962 that I was saying; if you aren't filling the standard case, then there's no point in having a chamber that blows the shoulder out for more powder capacity.
Another data point for the OP to consider.
So, you guys shooting the AI or other blown-out cases - are you in fact putting more powder in them than the original, non-blown-out case would hold? If so, then I can see considering the improved cartridges, otherwise I don't see the point.
Every AI cartridge that I have loaded for has gained me atleast 100fps over the parent case and I know some are gonna say well the animal isnt gonna know.
On your list of percentages 165 is the slowest at 91% I run H1000 in my nephews 6.5x06AI so I know the case fill is over 90%.
Your using Nosler data as an example so theres shows the 6.5x06 at 2900 with VV165 as the fastest I'm running 3150fps with H1000 in 6.5x06AI.
Then theres the equall pressure arguement, well nobody on here has the equipment that I know of to back that up it's all speculation.
I cant stand trimming cases and this is another advantage an Ai case has.
On your list of percentages 165 is the slowest at 91% I run H1000 in my nephews 6.5x06AI so I know the case fill is over 90%.
Your using Nosler data as an example so theres shows the 6.5x06 at 2900 with VV165 as the fastest I'm running 3150fps with H1000 in 6.5x06AI.
Then theres the equall pressure arguement, well nobody on here has the equipment that I know of to back that up it's all speculation.
I cant stand trimming cases and this is another advantage an Ai case has.
L Sherm is correct. The reason i went to AI 40° cases years ago was not so much velocity increases ( which vary cartridge to cartridge), rather, it minimizes or stops case stretching. I haven't had to trim my AI cases in a long time
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