6.5x55 sweed

[CBH Australia]

Hi Bob,

You have a great sense of humor and I enjoy your posts.

Cheers Mate,
Paul.

Yeah, he’s a funny man and he has a good face for radio. He would make a good shock jock.

A couple of old farts just retired from radio 80, we could send Bob back to work for 20 years so he can up where they left off. Well, maybe one of them. The other one is disgraced.

If Bob had Lawsy’s money I would take him up on his offer to do a full bag hunt in Namibia. Or at least suggest he could shout me.

 

[dlmac]

@Velo Dog
The only thing the 243 can be relied on to do is disappoint. Over rated noisy pieces of crap in my book.
Actually my book doesn't even list the 243 as a cartridge. Look up a dictionary under rubbish and you will find it mentioned.
Bob

I would much rather shot a 250 Savage or 257 Roberts than a 243. However the right bullets help.
Mike

 

[Velo Dog]

"dlmac, post: 1331586, member: 52653"]

I would much rather shot a 250 Savage or 257 Roberts than a 243. However the right bullets help.
Mike

Hi Mike,

A few years apart, I have owned and hunted with those two cartridges.
Admittedly with the .250, I don’t recall taking anything larger than a Nevada coyote.
That said, my .250 took countless ground squirrels and jack rabbits (the true test of any dangerous game cartridge). LoL.
Both were in early issue Ruger Model 77 rifles, (1970’s limited run production back then).

As the years went by, with rifles traded bought and sold, I also owned two different Remington Model 722 rifles, both in .257 Roberts, about 20 or more years apart.
Despite their too short of magazine box design flaw, both these two rifles were quite accurate with pretty much every bullet brand and weight I tried.
However the 2nd Model 722 I owned was uncommonly accurate with 117 grain Sierra flat base spitzers @ 2800 + some feet per second.
It is shown in an attached below photo, with the Montana pronghorn I shot with it.

I have also owned an older Ruger M-77 in caliber 25-06 and I liked it a lot.
But it was finicky about exactly which primers, powders and bullets it liked.
Even after finding just the right combination, sometimes (too often), it would unexplainably throw a flyer out of an otherwise perfectly tight group.
I cannot claim the cartridge is to blame but having only owned one .25-06, I cannot say it wasn’t the cartridge either.
That said, my strongest suspicion is that my rifle was haunted by evil spirits. Hehe.
So, I sold it.
But, I still like the .25-06 even though I like the .250 Savage and .257 Roberts a bit more.
And, the 6.5x55 even more but, that is just one grumpy old man’s opinion.

Cheers,
Paul.

 

[dlmac]

"dlmac, post: 1331586, member: 52653"]

I would much rather shot a 250 Savage or 257 Roberts than a 243. However the right bullets help.
Mike

Hi Mike,

A few years apart, I have owned and hunted with those two cartridges.
Admittedly with the .250, I don’t recall taking anything larger than a Nevada coyote.
That said, my .250 took countless ground squirrels and jack rabbits (the true test of any dangerous game cartridge). LoL.
Both were in early issue Ruger Model 77 rifles, (1970’s limited run production back then).

As the years went by, with rifles traded bought and sold, I also owned two different Remington Model 722 rifles, both in .257 Roberts, about 20 or more years apart.
Despite their too short of magazine box design flaw, both these two rifles were quite accurate with pretty much every bullet brand and weight I tried.
However the 2nd Model 722 I owned was uncommonly accurate with 117 grain Sierra flat base spitzers @ 2800 + some feet per second.
It is shown in an attached below photo, with the Montana pronghorn I shot with it.

I have also owned an older Ruger M-77 in caliber 25-06 and I liked it a lot.
But it was finicky about exactly which primers, powders and bullets it liked.
Even after finding just the right combination, sometimes (too often), it would unexplainably throw a flyer out of an otherwise perfectly tight group.
I cannot claim the cartridge is to blame but having only owned one .25-06, I cannot say it wasn’t the cartridge either.
That said, my strongest suspicion is that my rifle was haunted by evil spirits. Hehe.
So, I sold it.
But, I still like the .25-06 even though I like the .250 Savage and .257 Roberts a bit more.
And, the 6.5x55 even more but, that is just one grumpy old man’s opinion.

Cheers,
Paul.

I have only hunted Whitetail and mule deer with each. They did the job well.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

I would much rather shot a 250 Savage or 257 Roberts than a 243. However the right bullets help.
Mike

@dlmac
A good 25 even the little 250 Savage will do more than the useless 243. Try and load a nice 117gn even the Hornady round nose into a 243. Ain't Gunna happen it tips out at 100.
A nice 117gn SST in the Savage and you have a dead deer out to 200. In the Roberts that becomes 300 and in the 25-06 that's 400. In the 257 Weatherby that's the next county.
Bob

 

[dlmac]

@dlmac
A good 25 even the little 250 Savage will do more than the useless 243. Try and load a nice 117gn even the Hornady round nose into a 243. Ain't Gunna happen it tips out at 100.
A nice 117gn SST in the Savage and you have a dead deer out to 200. In the Roberts that becomes 300 and in the 25-06 that's 400. In the 257 Weatherby that's the next county.
Bob

My 257 Wby store goes like this, a fella from the city went hunting in the Western state of ID and was told that he would have shot up to 500 yds. He decided he needed a 257 wby for the hunt. Well most of the State of Idaho shots are under 150 yards unless you can not hunt. Add Mr. Murphy into the equation and the elk showed up 60 yds behind him. He shot the poor elk 4 times with bullets made for 7mm mauser speeds and they were disintegrating on impact. The elk did finally die. The same bullet in a 257 roberts would have done the job much better.

 

[dlmac]

My 257 Wby store goes like this, a fella from the city went hunting in the Western state of ID and was told that he would have shot up to 500 yds. He decided he needed a 257 wby for the hunt. Well most of the State of Idaho shots are under 150 yards unless you can not hunt. Add Mr. Murphy into the equation and the elk showed up 60 yds behind him. He shot the poor elk 4 times with bullets made for 7mm mauser speeds and they were disintegrating on impact. The elk did finally die. The same bullet in a 257 roberts would have done the job much better.

Sorry I never proof read anything.