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Four good Friends have recently spent an arm and most of a leg on the very very good Swarovski Z8i scopes. And I have to admit, they are very good indeed, even though one of the scopes belonging to one of these guys has a defect. It must have a defect because he has shot several of the wrong sex...

Getting those MV’s - What barrel length do you have on your .25-06 Scotty?

Ha, so true Guy and back in the early 1900’s the little Mannlicher Schoenauer 6.5x54 accounted for so much in the way of deer and even African dangerous game, so the .25-06 with it’s much greater MV and flat trajectory can do so much more at even greater range when required. (y)

(y) I’d go with this all day long and used to have a M1903 stutzen 6.5x54MSch. Stupidly sold it and now have a M1903 MSch Takedown version, currently being re-barrelled with Krieger as the original is completely shot out and useless. But, the rest of the rifle is absolutely immaculate. Action...

Ho hum, I haven’t seen it yet as it just arrived at my dealers store yesterday, but I just bought what looks like a real nice Steyr Mannlicher Classic stutzen in 6.5x55 SE (Swede). Looks like this smoothie has been really well maintained and I understand it’s from the early 2000’s era...

(y) Well lads, I think you know I love my .25-06 and get 3120fps with the 110gn AB/IMR4831. Runs like a sewing machine that combo. And, I have taken several 300+ lb red deer stags with it. But, for fun I really should look at some of these other propellants of which you speak, but I do wonder...

Finding max oal to the lands is a good piece of info to have, but as above, the Nosler AB does indeed like a good jump and in my rifle this is .040” However, there are often more than one accuracy nodes to be found with a cartridge/barrel, so having determined max oal, it may well be best to...

I’m definitely with Elkman on much of this. Yes, I do load using my best practice technique. I F/L resize with RCBS dies set to my cartridge headspace dimension and achieve better than 1/4” MOA @ 100yds .. but in the field when you’re hunting in less than ideal ‘range’ shooting conditions, in...

Very often the decent inexpensive dies such as RCBS standard dies will give excellent results, but, its more a question of how well/accurately dies are set up, as well as brass preparation, that will determine the standard or quality of results achieved. Also, care taken and accuracy of your...

(y) spot on, the way a hunter does it. Field craft and bringing home the venison is what hunting is about. I’ve accounted for hundreds of red deer stags & hinds, fox & feral goat over the years with my .25-06. An excellent cartridge that’s versatile and performs well with a range of bullets.

It's a good tool (y)

(y) Ha well thanks for the good wishes for hunting. Just got back home & the final weight check was 1.2 tons of dressed venison with seven stags down. No decent heads on them to speak of, but it was magic to listen to them roaring their challenges out. Truly wonderful. Cheers ET

Nosler .257" Nosler Accubond Hornady .264" RN Interlock

Nope, - not if the primer pockets are OK. Use them as normal but definitely, back off the load so it doesn't happen again.

I can say I use the Nosler 110gn Accubond exclusively in my rifle & have taken many red stags with the load and rifle. It's very very reliable and provides fast kills out to 300yds. The data I use is as follows and may or may not work in your rifle .. usual precautions apply. Blaser K95 Luxus...

That's the hard part Scotty. You & Dewey have been brilliant help feeding me some load data and it will be so useful later next year. But the wait, heeeee the wait is again going to be long. The barrel from Kreiger doesn't arrive in UK until early Jan. then the gunsmith needs significant time to...

I'm assuming Mark, when you chambered these cases you mention above, you did so before resizing and after decapping. So electing to bump to 1.621" is your chosen nominal resizing dimension. You can always adjust after the next firing if you think appropriate. A good move as has been suggested...

http://www.mannlicher.org/aboutmannlich ... cteristics The link may help Jamila. I have a MSch. 6.5x54 M1903 Takedown version. It's in really great condition but the barrel is shot out and to be replaced by Callum Ferguson at Precision Rifles in Scotland. It will be a Kreiger barrel and retain...

Brass even from the same lot, as it's extruded will have variations of 'springback' right from new, so it's quite normal to have .001-.002" variation in fired case headspace measurement. Especially if you're using an averagely inexpensive vernier. .003" does seem rather a lot of variation...

(y) I reckon that's spot on & exactly my conclusion. All else about the rifle is in excellent condition and the action so slick. Only one other aspect can be improved, that being the trigger. It's of its time and not crisp. Too much 'creep'. So that will also get some attention.