Raimey,
First of all, you will not be able to buy 6.5x70R ammo loaded by any commercial manufacturer in either Suhl or Austria; you will either have to load it yourself or have a custom handloader load it for you. Whoever loads the ammo will have to match it to the rifle (within accepted tolerances). The nominal caliber is only the "name" of the cartridge the gun is chambered to use. Some "names" are established to fit actual dimensions, some are established to fit nominal dimensions (6.5mm is .256", but a nominal 6.5 mm bullet is .264-5" or 6.7mm diameter). Some cartridges have different names to avoid confusion but use the same size bullet (.218 Bee, .219 Wasp, .220 Swift, .221 Fireball, .222 Remington, .223 Remington, and .225 Winchester all use .224"diameter bullets), some have the same nominal size but different actual size (38 S&W Special is .357", 38S&W is .361", 38Colt is .375"), sometimes the same cartridge has different names for advertising (38S&W and 38Colt New Police are the same). Some people think the metric system avoids confusion, but subject of this thread shows that is not entirely true. As long as commercial ammo is available, using ammo that matches the nominal caliber of the gun is correct. .....
Ford:
I can appreciate your Socratic method of reply but I am looking for period data. I just am not of the opinion of there being a full array of bullet diameters for the 6,5X70R: Maybe one for the Germans out of Suhl, the cradle of the 6,5X70R(„Bleistiftpatrone = Pencil Cartridge“) and one for the Austrian version, where Franz Sodia was doing all the heavy lifting and totin' the mail. And I am positive he was involved purely for the Benjamins($,€,£,¥).
Lep Pozdrav,
Raimey
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