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It principally saw service during World War I in the hands of the Central Powers, and it was eventually replaced in 1935 by the Karabiner 98k, more compact variant of the Gewehr 98. It is chambered in 7.92mm Mauser, and feeds from a 5-round internal magazine. I suppose you could use one of the other 6.5s but I like using and trusting something that's been around for 100+ years. The Mauser Gewehr 98, (abbreviated G98) was the German service rifle of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. I've always thought the 140 was the ideal bullet weight. I throated for the long factory 160 but never used that.
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I would choose the SE but then use European brass. A 1/2" gun !!!ĭecisions to make - chamber 6.5x55SE or American. The action and 2" of the 24" barrel were glass bedded again for rigidity.Canjar trigger added. No opening of the boltface was necessary.The barrel was made so both inner and outer shoulders seated to the receiver for max rigidity. For the work I was doing I wanted to be sure so I re heat treated the action. Now the rifle - Mine is a '43 Obendorf M98. For a reasonable load you should be able to get with something like 4350, and a 140 gr bullet 2750-2850.No sense in pushing it, it's not a magnum and does the job without high velocity, recoil or muzzle blast ! I think now the cartridge is for hand loaders as they wimped out the loads. Then American companies started to load it but used the. This dropped velocities down about 250 fps. We then had ,in the USA, a lowering of the SAAMI pressures because of the old guns. It was one of my gunsmithing school projects.įirst a bit about the 6.5x55.The Scandinavian military cartridge, with a Krag for Norway and Mauser for Sweden.There were some slight differences between the two and that was finally adjusted to the 6.5x55SE. Finn Aagaard called it the perfect deer cartridge. I did that many years ago and used it for 25 years as my primary deer rifle and it never let me down.