6.5 Remington Magnum

jason75979 · January 17, 2011, 12:42 PM

Hey guys, I joined bout 2 yrs ago and decided to get in to reading. After reading an excellent post by David Georgia I took his advice and purchased literature on reloading and spent about a year studying before equipping myself and of course beginning. Well, now I have a small problem.

I'm wanting to reload 120 grain Barnes tipped Tsx bullets for my remmy 6.5mag, but Barnes offers no data for this particular cartridge. Does anyone out there happen to have any data available. If not any good ideas on how to start working up my own?

After some research, I've compared 270 win loads, case capacity, and velocities with different powders and find that they are really similar. Would you recommend using a starting load, or maybe figuring an average difference between the two and possibly beginning there? Any help is greatly appreciated.

PawPaw · January 17, 2011, 01:26 PM

Call Barnes and ask them?

From the Hodgdon reloading pages, it looks like the cartridge does well with H4831 and powders of that burning rate. I'd bet that Reloder 22 would work well in that cartridge.

As in all thing reloading, be diligent, start slow and work up.

jason75979 · January 18, 2011, 02:50 PM

Thanks papa. Just got email from Barnes and it seems they had data in their 3rd volume bot ommitted it from their 4th. Wealthy were nice enough to provide that info free of charge. Good company IMO. Any other info is appreciated.

January 17, 2011, 12:42 PM	#1
jason75979 Senior Member Join Date: February 1, 2009 Location: Southeast Texas Posts: 137	6.5 Remington Magnum Hey guys, I joined bout 2 yrs ago and decided to get in to reading. After reading an excellent post by David Georgia I took his advice and purchased literature on reloading and spent about a year studying before equipping myself and of course beginning. Well, now I have a small problem. I'm wanting to reload 120 grain Barnes tipped Tsx bullets for my remmy 6.5mag, but Barnes offers no data for this particular cartridge. Does anyone out there happen to have any data available. If not any good ideas on how to start working up my own? After some research, I've compared 270 win loads, case capacity, and velocities with different powders and find that they are really similar. Would you recommend using a starting load, or maybe figuring an average difference between the two and possibly beginning there? Any help is greatly appreciated.

January 17, 2011, 01:26 PM	#2
PawPaw Senior Member Join Date: December 24, 2010 Location: Central Louisiana Posts: 3,137	Call Barnes and ask them? From the Hodgdon reloading pages, it looks like the cartridge does well with H4831 and powders of that burning rate. I'd bet that Reloder 22 would work well in that cartridge. As in all thing reloading, be diligent, start slow and work up. __________________ Dennis Dezendorf http://pawpawshouse.blogspot.com

January 18, 2011, 02:50 PM	#3
jason75979 Senior Member Join Date: February 1, 2009 Location: Southeast Texas Posts: 137	lucky me Thanks papa. Just got email from Barnes and it seems they had data in their 3rd volume bot ommitted it from their 4th. Wealthy were nice enough to provide that info free of charge. Good company IMO. Any other info is appreciated.