Hi!

Is there anyone using the 6.5x65R? Im thinking of buying a Blaser BBF97 in that caliber. It seems to me like it will be close to a 6.5-06 in performance? Do you think I can get 870-900 m/s with 140grains partition?

Here in Sweden i have never seen or heard of anyone using the 6.5x65R. How is it in the rest of Europe?

Hallo Jamt,

I don't use by myself. Some info you can find here, but mainly in German. But to read the tables it is not important.
With 7 Gramm bullets you will have about 1000m/s.
http://home.snafu.de/l.moeller/65x65RWS.html

Best regards

Jamt,
I no longer use the 6,5x65R but i have used it for some time, in a Blaser AWUL K77.
The case is 65 mm long vs the 63 mm of the 6,5-06, its shoulder is located in a more forward position, and its neck is much shorter than the one on the 06 case.
Therefore, its capacity, though not much, is larger than that of the 6,5-06.
Which means that all that may be done with the 6,5-06, may be done with the 6,5x65R, and then a bit more.
Assuming equal pressures and barrel length.
I did not use the 140 gr bullets very much, since for really heavy game I jumped up to a larger caliber. But a 125gr Nosler Partition at 965 m/s could reasonably handle any medium sized game, even at long long range.
Answering your question, with slow burning powders in the Norma MRP, Hogdgon 4831 range, I could safely reach 900 m/s in my 60 cm barrel.
montero

montero,
Is the 6.5x65R easy to get accurate when you handload?

Sauenj�ger,
Ich verstehe ein bisschen deutch. Ein bier bitte

Waidmannssheil

Loading both , the 6,5*65 and the 6,5*65R, there hasn't been a problem to achieve a very satisfying accuracy with bullets from 120 gr to 140 gr in my rifles. Last year I have shot a wild boar with a weight from about 100 kg (CDP bullet ,129 gr).

You will get a lot of ballistic informations at Lutz Moellers pages as Sauenj�ger refered above.

Albjager

Jamt,
I am not sure if the accuracy came from the cartridge itself or from the rifle, but I got very good accuracy using bullets from the 93 gr RWS T-Mantle on the light side, to several 140 grainers.
I believe accuracy has more to do with the gun, anyway.
Make it two beers!
montero