Thanks in advance for the help on this one.
I have just bought a left hand Tikka T3 in 6.5x55. When looking through the Nosler manual, it seems the 125 grain partitions will have a higher velocity, less drop and more ft.lbs at any given distance over the 140 grain partitions. All I have read on this round though is that the 140 grain load is the"all around" best weight for this caliber. Any real world advice on this round would be appreciated so I can do some reloading and testing. I will be using it for whitetail deer which can be fairly big where I live (Alberta) and cow elk, but also like to shoot at the range where accuracy is important to me and velocity is secondary.
Regards
Mark
I have just bought a left hand Tikka T3 in 6.5x55. When looking through the Nosler manual, it seems the 125 grain partitions will have a higher velocity, less drop and more ft.lbs at any given distance over the 140 grain partitions. All I have read on this round though is that the 140 grain load is the"all around" best weight for this caliber. Any real world advice on this round would be appreciated so I can do some reloading and testing. I will be using it for whitetail deer which can be fairly big where I live (Alberta) and cow elk, but also like to shoot at the range where accuracy is important to me and velocity is secondary.
Regards
Mark