I just bought Lee Dies, 20 rounds of Brass and Hornady 140 grain bullets to load for my 6.5x55 Swede. I checked the loads in my Hornady book and the only powder I had available was IMR 3031. I did not want to set up the powder measure for 20 rounds so I dipped them using a Old Lee dipper set I have. the loads started out at 30.9 grains for a vel of 2300 the next one up was 32.6 grains for a vel of 2400 and on up to a max load of 36 grains for a vel of 2600. For a starting point I decided on the 32.6 grain load only I am using a load of 32.3 grains because the closest I could come using dippers was using a dipper that dropped 28 grains and one that droped 4.3 grains for the 32.3 total. Any one here use a load simular to that and how did it perform for you? Gun is a 96 Mauser made into a Scout rifle with a shorter barrel than the standard 29 inches I settled for a just over 20 inch barrel. Jim

I would say you now have a thinking man's hunting rifle.I hope you have a good scope mount. I saw some come apart at the range. Don't know who made them. I've made four scouts and like them of course.Some people see them as a bid negative. roger

The mount is my own based on the Ashley mounts that you solder back in place or epoxy where the old sight base was located. Mine is a tube epoxied on the barrel with a weaver base screwed into it with 4 6/48 screws it is not moving. The mount you see on the Bushnell Phantom pistol scope is screwed to that base with 3 6/48 screws. All screws are loctited with the blue loctite. If I find a other scope I want to use I can uscrew this scope mount for the Bushnell and I can mount it to the Weaver mount with traditional weaver rings.