6.55x55 loads

[wvbuckbuster]

I forgot that Stabal6.5 shows promise in my 6.5x55s as well. Dan.

 

[Blkram]

Cool stutzen very similar to mine, but a year or two earlier. Your Mod. M looks like it's the 'Luxus' model. The difference between your & my rifle is in the magazine type, bolt & safety. Superb rifles. Really great slick bolts on the Mannlicher rifles. Hold the trigger & tip the rifle downward & the bolt slides straight into battery. QD mounts are great & zero perfectly each time they're removed/replaced. I load 6.5x55SE for friends who also use the Hornady 123gn SST bullet. (43gns) Viht. N550 works great with the bullet. For the heavier 140gn bullet, Viht. N560 works well.

Thanks! Very hard to find in left hand!
I do prefer the 140 gr bullets in my Swedes, so will be loading the AccuBonds and Partitions to see what the rifle prefers, but also have some 130 rg Terminal Ascent bullets to try too (they are performing very well in both of my 6.5 CM's). I also have some Lapua 155 gr Mega's on hand, so may try them in this rifle as well. Should be great penetrators!
For factory ammo, I have always had good on-game performance from Winchester Power Points, so will also see how that 140 gr amm performs in this rifle. For short range work in the timber, this would would work great on deer and moose.

My other LH Model M FS is in 270 Win and is not the Special Edition, and while it has plainer wood, it is still of good grain. It does not have the QD mounts. It shoots the Federal 136 gr Terminal Ascent ammo into 0.678" groups at 100 yards, at 2792 fps *just over 200 fps less than factory specs in a 24" barrel). But for a stalking rifle, it will work just fine on game at the distances I will be hunting with this rifle. (Yet to hunt with this rifle.)