New to the form ,I have been looking at getting a new rifle and this round has been catching my interest.I know that a Rem. 260 or a260AI is close to this round. I would would be using this rifle for deer/varmit hunting and of course target shooting.I would like some feed back from other members that have /or shoot this round, as to type of gun,barrel length,rate of twist etc,etc. 

Thanks for the reply JustinC. yes lots to think about,I have been reading reviews about this caliber and some of the other 6mm/6.5 mm other calibers out there/lots of different combinations .I like the improved calibers ,like you mention there is less case work once they are fire-form.what length barrel would you go with? and who would you recommend to have a gun built with.Do you have any experience with Ron Smiths gain twist barrels,I was thinking of trying one of these barrels,besides it is built here in Alberta.As I read on the 6mm dasher there seems to a bit of playing with the cases to get them perfected/I shoot a gun that I have that  to fire form brass for   but you also have to ream the 6mm dasher brass necks to seat the bullets ,is that that what you have to do with yours?What do you use this rifle primary for?Lots of questions come to mine so bare with me,as I type more things come to mind.

I would like to here more of the application of the rifle you want to build as Justin has said.  6.5x47 meh.  Smith barrels I have had a few there ok. 

if you are going to shoot a 6.5 seriously at targets the 47 is the way to go.it steps into an accuracy relm that the 260 has trouble going.similar to the 6ppc and 6br in short benchrest.if you are wanting to shoot targets to 600m and want to go with the 6mm the 6br is a good way to go.no need to go with the wildcats such as dasher,xc,brx etc. to that distance and alot less work fireforming etc. velocity is good enough on all cartridges mentioned to all SANE hunting distances and target distances.last year at the burns lake 1000m benchrest shoot the winner was a 6.5x47 shooting 130 grain bullets in some horrifying conditions kicking the crap out of the big boomers!