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Post by Hank on Apr 5, 2016 21:15:58 GMT -5
Some of you guys have heard of the 6.5X47 Lapua. It is a great little cartridge brought to us by the Lapua Cartridge company. I have built several of these rifles and the all are shooters... Now we have a wildcat made from that cartridge, simply by necking it down to 6mm. I have built a few of these and boy do they shoot good. I recently completed one of these magnificent rifles and wanted to show you guys here. The cartridge is easily formed by full length sizing the 6.5X47 brass in a custom die that I make here in at the shop. Its as easy as making 270 Winchester from 30-06 brass... one pass in the sizing die and you're done..... The customer called me today and said he could not get the rifle to shoot groups bigger that 1/4 inch and that it is now his favorite rifle... I also love accurate rifles... The rifle was built using a Richards Microfit stock in their Precision style and the Tiger wood laminate and a Pachmayr presentation pad. The stock was ordered with a 3 1/4 inch form arm that a whittled down to 3 inches and no inlet. I did the inlet to fit the Stiller P1000 action that has a 1.550 diameter main body and a dual port configuration. It loads on the left side and ejects out the right side.... The Barrel on this rifle is a 1-8 twist Hart in a special order heavy contour and finished at 26 inches. The trigger is a Jewell set at 6 ounces and equipped with a bottom safety. We topped this rifle with a Nightforce 5.5-22X56 NSX and Nightforce rings. The Picatinny rail is made by Stiller and comes with the action.  Here are the test targets from the new barrel.   Aint it funny that you know when you pull a shot... Well I pulled this one and I knew it the second I squeezed the trigger.   And I shipped it off to Scott in Mississippi in a Pelican rifle case.... He is one happy camper.........  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2016 22:05:21 GMT -5
Hank, that is a wicked cool stock! That is an awesome looking rifle great job!!
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Post by schunter on Apr 6, 2016 6:53:14 GMT -5
Beautiful rifle and it shoots as good as it looks!
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Post by jims on Apr 6, 2016 11:42:01 GMT -5
That is a shooter.
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Post by linebaugh on Apr 6, 2016 13:38:12 GMT -5
Beautiful work.
I'm sure it's been done but that would be a very nice case to neck down to .224
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Post by rojo23 on Apr 6, 2016 17:51:25 GMT -5
that is a shooter for sure. What velocity are you getting with that round?
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Post by keith on Apr 7, 2016 6:35:51 GMT -5
Is there some dimension you changed on the 6x47 L that you have to make dies?
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Post by jaymiller5 on Apr 8, 2016 13:52:31 GMT -5
Nice looking rifle. Agreed, why not buy the 6x47 die from Redding and Forster, or did you do a tight neck on this one?
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Post by Hank on Apr 8, 2016 17:21:50 GMT -5
The customer wanted a custom sizing die cut at .003 under chamber dimensions. He reloads using Wilson dies and neck sizes only half the neck, therefor he wanted a die blank cut to his dimensions to full length size the neck when starting out with 6.5X47 brass.
I make a lot of custom reloading dies for my customers... I guess some guys want them that way...
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Post by hillbill on Apr 9, 2016 20:58:06 GMT -5
its a looker and a shooter!
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Post by Richard on Apr 10, 2016 19:13:20 GMT -5
I have a reamer for that 6-6.5x47 Hank. I built one for 600 bench rest but never could get it to shoot as well as the variants of the 6BR...........6BRX and 6 Dasher. I think it had more powder capacity than what was needed for our discipline? Definitely a great varmint round. But you know how that goes..........different gun, different barrel, different twist rate?  |
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Post by Hank on Apr 10, 2016 19:21:48 GMT -5
Yes Sir Richard.. You can build to identical rifles at the same time and one will shoot better than the other...
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Post by Hank on May 19, 2016 17:20:35 GMT -5
Finally got around to editing the test fire video and uploading it to youtube.
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Post by itneverends22 on May 19, 2016 17:53:07 GMT -5
Jeff, awesome rifle, super shooting.. great video! Thanks for sharing..
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Post by Richard on May 19, 2016 21:00:05 GMT -5
Good video Jeff and good trigger pulling.
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