rifles in 6.5 Creedmore?
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What are it’s disadvantages over any other medium capacity 6.5?
You tell me. Based on your experience killing with a medium capacity 6.5. Or complete lack there-of.
Running a properly constructed bullet starting at 3000 fps through an animals front half kills it. At proper range.
However, pressure stuck cases, 700 yrd shots, and match bullets lessens this chance. All attributes of the 6.5 creedmoor in this thread. And others.
Let me help then.
Is it:
Magazine space?
Consistent chamber geometry?
Prolific brass variety and availability?
Quality factory ammunition?
Lack of factory chambered rifles?
Military adoption?
What are you seeing?
Is it:
Magazine space?
Consistent chamber geometry?
Prolific brass variety and availability?
Quality factory ammunition?
Lack of factory chambered rifles?
Military adoption?
What are you seeing?
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Do you have examples of these phenomenons?
Oh, and I’ve killed plenty with medium 6.5’s.
I really like the cartridge. High bc bullets equal great penetration and I love the ctr maybe I lucked out on a good one but it’s
Really accurate. Hoping for caribou and moose this fall maybe a sheep. For grizzlies I’d take a bigger gun but I think the creedmoor is super well rounded and fun to shoot. I’m running mine hot with 143gr eldx. No pressure issues and accurate really accurate.
Wouldn’t hesitate to buy a creedmoor. I agree with other posters. There’s just more on the market now.
Also the published data on 100gr is 3200 that’s moving. I get 2800ish out of mine with 143s. But depends on what you want. Fits the bill for me though
Really accurate. Hoping for caribou and moose this fall maybe a sheep. For grizzlies I’d take a bigger gun but I think the creedmoor is super well rounded and fun to shoot. I’m running mine hot with 143gr eldx. No pressure issues and accurate really accurate.
Wouldn’t hesitate to buy a creedmoor. I agree with other posters. There’s just more on the market now.
Also the published data on 100gr is 3200 that’s moving. I get 2800ish out of mine with 143s. But depends on what you want. Fits the bill for me though
Chuck, there is nothing there with the 6.5 Creedmoor over it's "equal" cartridges. If there is an advantage over there other small 6.5's, than it is only microscopic. The only "humongous" advantage I know with this cartridge, is it's hype and over embellishment from marketing and trendy/yuppie shooters/hunters. We shoot the 6.5-300 Wby, 130 grain accubond, resulting in 1/2" groups, muzzle velocity of just under 3,500, velocity and energy at 800 yards are: 2,090 and 1,260. A 600 yard paper target cartridge is all it is, nothing more, except for antelope and deer, at an acceptable range.
A 147gr at 3005fps with a G1 BC of .697 has 1551lb/ft at 650 yards. That’s the example we were going with, isn’t it?
Using the same pressures, the 260 should produce 3100fps with the same bullet. The 6.5x55 should make 3200fps. It all comes down to what pressures you are comfortable with. Personally, I won't push my loads to those velocities.
I was looking at factory loading data comparing the 308 to the 6.5
I will never get those velocities out of a stag 10 hunting rifle with 18.6 barrel and I'm not lugging around a conventional rifle with 26-30" barrel in the woods. I will take my desert tech srs in 338 lapua as it is more compact and way better ballistics for the oal of the rifle
Ah, ok.
RJChuck, there is nothing there with the 6.5 Creedmoor over it's "equal" cartridges. If there is an advantage over there other small 6.5's, than it is only microscopic. The only "humongous" advantage I know with this cartridge, is it's hype and over embellishment from marketing and trendy/yuppie shooters/hunters. We shoot the 6.5-300 Wby, 130 grain accubond, resulting in 1/2" groups, muzzle velocity of just under 3,500, velocity and energy at 800 yards are: 2,090 and 1,260. A 600 yard paper target cartridge is all it is, nothing more, except for antelope and deer, at an acceptable range.
It’s funny it’s not more popular. I wonder why that is?
After several years of reading about the wonders of 6.5 Creedmoor ... i am still sitting on the fence on getting one ... I own a Savage Model 12 LRP with a 26” barrel in 308 Win. And it is quite accurate and the recoil is low ... for an average shooter like me ... should i bother even to get one? With that said i did try a Ruger precision in 6.5 Creedmoor at the gun range last year and i easily clover leafed it at 100 yards without trying that hard ... perhaps there is something to the cartridge
