Price of ammunition/ options available

[stuey]

Getting a 6.5 x 55 in the new year to use for fox and roe deer. Does anyone use this calibre for both?

 

If so have you any ammo combos that you use for the fox and the deer. Eventually i would like to reaload and i guess the perfect combination would be a varmit round zeroed for 200m and a deer round zeroed for 100m. Ideally with no need to alter the scope between rounds.

 

In the mean time are their any shop bought alternatives?

 

regards

 

Stu

[Dunkield]

Do a search Stuey this has been asked a few times.

My Tikka only realy likes Federal 140grains of the factory rounds I have tried so far.

 

For what you are looking at 120's or lighter may be a better bet.

 

I forgot to add, they are about £20/20 if you find them.

[mry716]

Fox and deer pelt offer approximately the same resistance to a bullet's impact so the same bullet will suffice for both species. Always choose the bullet you wish to use for Deer as the base load and use that for fox also despite it usually having a poorer trajectory than you would normally perhaps choose for a foxing round.

 

If you wish to have two different rounds you need either two rifles or an easy method of changing and remembering the different trajectories and of course the zero on one rifle.

 

This way is best obtained with one rifle by having a set of Quick Release bases and two scopes - one set up for each purpose. It also affords you the facility to have the most applicable scope for your fox or deer shooting as well as the best ammo.

 

My Rings/Bases choice, looking to both cost and accuracy of the setup, would be Leupold QR. I use this method myself and find a return to zero as good as my shooting allows me to judge. ie zero stays within 1" at 100yds which for me a fine for all field shooting.

 

http://www.leupold.com/hunting-and-shootin...tems/qr-mounts/

 

If you choose that approach pm me as I may be able to assist with discounted rings if not bases so saving you some money against normal retail prices.

 

You cannot normally have a setup where two bullets offer the same or even closely similar trajectory. Yes you may just be lucky and have two that zero to the same spot at say an odd point of 94.2 yards but at distances above zero the trajectory will show an ever increasing divergence.