6.5-300 Weatherby Magnum
The 6.5-300 Weatherby Magnum is a 6.5mm cartridge created by Weatherby in 2016 for the growing 6.5mm long-range rifle market.
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| Type | Rifle | |||||||||||||||
| Place of origin | USA | |||||||||||||||
| Production history | ||||||||||||||||
| Designer | Weatherby | |||||||||||||||
| Designed | Roy Weatherby experimented with the design in the 1950s. It wasn’t commercialized until 2016. | |||||||||||||||
| Manufacturer | Weatherby | |||||||||||||||
| Produced | 2016 | |||||||||||||||
| Specifications | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent case | .300 Weatherby Magnum | |||||||||||||||
| Case type | Belted, bottleneck | |||||||||||||||
| Bullet diameter | .264 in (6.7 mm) | |||||||||||||||
| Shoulder diameter | .4949 in (12.57 mm) | |||||||||||||||
| Base diameter | .512 in (13.0 mm) | |||||||||||||||
| Rim diameter | .5315 in (13.50 mm) | |||||||||||||||
| Case length | 2.825 in (71.8 mm) | |||||||||||||||
| Overall length | 3.600 in (91.4 mm) | |||||||||||||||
| Case capacity | 98 gr H2O (6.4 cm3) | |||||||||||||||
| Rifling twist | 1-8" | |||||||||||||||
| Primer type | Large rifle magnum | |||||||||||||||
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| Test barrel length: 26 Source(s): Weatherby | ||||||||||||||||
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