30 Cal Mag Fan, I'm curious about your 6.5 WSM. Would you mind giving details about the rifle, cartridge and it's performance? Did you just neck down a 270 WSM or blow the shoulder forward? What kind of velocities are you getting? How much were whoose dies? Who's reamer did you use? etc. etc. etc. Thanks......DJ

DJ-

My 6.5 WSM began it's life as a short action Model 70 Classic that I had rebarreled as a .260 REM with a Hart #3 contour (1 in 8 twist) 24 inch tube; original Featherweight stock. When the .300 WSM came out, I thought to myself what a neat case to neck down to 6.5. I had Dave Kiff grind me a reamer (.296 neck) and Ron Bartlett of Vais Arms rechambered my .260 to 6.5 WSM and open bolt face adjust feed rails, etc. Thus, if there is such a thing as a "stock" 6.5 WSM that is what mine is. A .300 WSM or .270 WSM necked down to 6.5.

Now, I will tell you that working up loads for this particular round just about drove me to drink. Keep in mind this was before the 7 mm WSM much less the .270 WSM. I started load development with WW760; the same powder that Winchester first used with .300 WSM; total disaster. I won't go into gruesome details but, it was a great re-inforcement for all of the reloading fundamentals I learned 25 years ago; like start low and work up.

Finally at wits end, I did some calling and maybe it was Dave Kiff that told me to contact Herb Reiley. Herb had been working with 6.5 WSM and had one of the Reloading computer programs and he told me a load from his computer program. I tried the load; 61 gr of Re 22 and shot sub .5 moa groups. Worked up to 63 gr of RE 22 and extraction got a bit sticky so I say to myself, what's the use and I have stuck with 61 gr.

As for dies, ordered a three die set from Huntington and sent neck die to JLC for conversion to bushing neck die. Note, remember, I did this in the day of no .270 WSM so I had to neck down .300 WSM brass which is a little tricky going down that far without an intermediate step; not a problem today with .270 WSM brass. And I turn my necks anyway.

DJ, unfortunately I don't own a chronograph so I don't know what my velocities but, I am hoping I am getting 3100+ fps with 140 grain bullets.

Sorry to have rambled.

Or even try a 140 tsx.

If the interbonds are not working in your .270 cal try another bullet. I have a .270 WSM and a couple regular .270's and none of them will shoot the 130 Interbond with any load I've tried and I've gone through 300 of the things before I gave up. Sold the other 200 to a friend who has a .270 WSM and a standard .270 and he couldn't get them to shoot either. I do know of a couple .270's that do shoot them very well but it seems that either your rifle falls in love with them immediatly or it will always hate them. Seems to be no middle ground with them. On the other hand the .30 cal interbonds shoot well for me and my friends in almost every rifle we've tried them out in. You might want to try the 140 Accubonds, most .270 WSM's seem to shoot those very well.

I agree with Oscar. I have heard of several people struggling to get the .270 130 gr Interbonds to shoot in their 270WSM's as well as standard .270 Win. rifles. My .270 WSM (model 70 Super Shadow) loves the Nosler 140 gr Accubond and shoots well with 65.0 gr of Vihta Vuori N-165 and Federal 210 primers. This a grain and a half below the maximum in the Hornady manual for their 140 gr SST in the .270WSM. With the 140 gr Accubond and 61.0 gr of Reloder 19, my rifle shot an average of 1.1" for 3 three shot groups at 100 yards. (The N-165 loads average around half that) I also had good luck with the 130 gr Ballistic Tips, but the 140 gr bullets seemed to shoot better in my rifle. Good luck, and let us know if you get other bullets to shoot a little better.