Posted in the reloading section about the 6.5X55 & the load. Here is the rifle & results. It is a handy rifle & easy to carry. The 6.5X55 cartridge is a joy to shoot. I’m shooting an unknown 140 grain bullet which came to me in bulk, maybe from Graf & Sons. The powder is a slow lot of 4895 which loads close to IMR4064. The present loads contain 37 grains with a CCI34 primer. OAL is 3.00”.
The rifle is carbine length with a cut down military stock. I changed the front sight to a black ramp. The rear sight has 3 leaves. The lowest one I filed into a square notch. This gives the same sight picture as my sixguns.
I prepared a target with a 4” bull on the back of a cereal box only to find I was out of black paint, so I used white. I set the target at the 50 yard mark which was in the bright sunlight & found no real aiming point. I fired 5 shots which I didn’t measure but considering the 4” bull I’m guessing the group was 4”. As I looked through the spotting scope I’m thinking about any sixgun would do that.
Next up was the 100 yard 12” plate. It was also painted white but sitting in the shade giving a fair sight picture. From the bench I fired 5 shots & the view in the spotting scope looked pretty good. The results are in the pictures below.
With that said, it is amazing how good a black ramp front sight & square notch rear sight work with eyes that will be 75 years old in October. The 5 shots measured 5 ½” with 4 measuring 2 ½”. The high, left shot could have been a bad sight picture, the military trigger, or me.
I knew the rifle shot good for what it is because I plink rocks with it. The offhand plinking showed the sights to on with this load & firing from the bench confirms it. Still have a pile of these bullets & look forward to shooting them all.
