Seibel’s Slick, 6-6.5×47 Varminter Delivers Speed and Accuracy
A while back, John Seibel, creator of the Varmints for Fun website, put together a 6-6.5×47 Varminter with a Lilja 10-twist barrel and BAT RBRP three-lug action. Richard Franklin smithed the gun using a Model 10 Varminter stock, one of Richard’s own stock designs.
Varmint Loads with 75gr and 87gr V-Maxs
Our Forum readers have asked for recommended 6-6.5×47 Lapua loads for the lighter bullets. Well, John has some useful load data that should provide excellent starting points for 75gr and 87gr projectiles. John writes: “The 75s and 87s will be my main groundpig/varmint rounds. I have worked up loads for all of them but I need to work on the 95s to fine tune them for the egg shoot. I used CCI 450 primers for all loads. They have shown to reduce ES greatly. This case has a small primer pocket and I reasoned with the slower burning powders I wanted to get my velocity as high as possible. I had plenty of H414 and N550 … so that’s what I tried. Velocities and case fullness seemed to be pretty dang good.”
John favored Vihtavuori N550 for the 75 V-Max, while H414 was his powder of choice for the 87gr V-Max. John found these two powders offered near 100% fill density. There are other good powder choices for these bullets. For pure accuracy, you may want to try the 80gr Berger Varmint bullet — it has shot superbly in our 6BRs.
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Hell of a job big brother!!
I think we need a tab on the web page with a big write up for the 6.5×47 Lapua. I see a lot of interest in it. Myself included.
Nice rifle and cartridge. Would you post the velocities and loads with the two powders and bullets? Thanks
Can you also post the barrel contour, lenght, etc.?
A new guy at the range brought his 6.5 X 47 to try it out at 700 mtrs.
No match grade barrel, no target projectiles, standard action.
He shot a very impressive score which surprised everyone. Food for thought.