The Right Bullet for 6.5-300 Weatherby Mag

[.300 Dakota]

The 156 is a harder bullet. I wouldn't hesitate to run it. In my 6.5-300. I run the 124 hammers. It has been a lot of fun. Before hammers was the 127 lrx. Attached are pictures of the animals I took from 157 yards to 683. The antelope was at 683. The white tail buck was at 397, the elk was at 157. None of them took a step. I switched to hammers because Barnes didn't wanna take care of the customer and I wanted a bullet that shed fragmented and made some different wound channels. I will sash I'm not running the 124's at 3600. Im running them at 3400 which is still no slouch. I had them up over 3500 but es was ulgy and over 600 my accuracy was horrible.

What he said. If anything, the complaints on the 156 is it's too hard and doesn't open at lower velocities sometimes in Creedmoors (although any cartridge would be identical at the same speed). Don't think you'll have a problem in the 6.5x300. BTW, Reloader 50 gave me the best velocity in my factory gun. Really needs a 28 or 30" barrel to burn all that through a small hole.

 

[Wyodog]

I think the 156 EOL will be an ideal bullet for the 6.5-300. I'm just above 3200 fps in mine. It's starting to show promise. Weatherby is loading the 156 at 3050 fps.

I am running the 156 EOL at 3153 FPS. I have shot 2 elk with them, 1 at 150ish yards the other at 430 yards. both were quick clean kills. So far I am happy with this bullet.