6.5 Creedmoor Now Faster than 6.5 PRC-We Ordered All Types

Beeron said:
At the risk of really starting something, that is pure ignorance. Exit wounds do not necessarily mean an increase in lethality.

Simply put, at any reasonable hunting range, velocity in any reasonable hunting cartridge is a minor consideration.
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Increase in blood trail and chance of finding the animal.

There's a million reasons to want more velocity. No downside to having a choice of more velocity from your old rifle. The post I quoted was pure ignorance.
 
yidava25 said:
Show of hands, who's all burned out more than one barrel in less than 10 years of shooting?
I sure haven't. It's all but irrelevant for probably 99% of the people buying guns and ammo
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Depends on what you call burn out? The F class guys called them done when they stop printing their known small groups. Could be a few months for them.


This hype is all too funny to watch and listen to all the banter.

I build up a 26" barrel 6.5 CM for bench shooting after I sat behind one on a range session with a friend. I pushed a 139gr projectile around 2950 fps for roughly 1500 + ish rounds. Then slowed it down to roughly 2850 fps when replacing brass got expensive. I put roughly 3-4 reloads in the brass before the primer pockets were no longer holding primers.

My regular range time with this rifle was, shoot 10 round mag, load 10 round mag, shoot 10 round mag, for 50 round sessions. The barrel was "hot" after, with a no touch or burn sense. The only other reason I slowed it down was the carbon rings forming, that I had a learning curve with, as I am fairly new to this type of shooting.

After 3500 ish rounds in about 2 years, maybe less, I removed the barrel and swapped it with a 6 GT for my daughter to shot on that rifle platform. I was printing .75" groups at 100m when I removed the barrel, and I by no means babied it, on the contrary I abused it by all accounts of what you guys would call abuse. I would only clean after 500 ish rounds, and never before. Did not perform the "new barrel brake in" that most guys swear by. I wanted to see for myself what I could do to this barrel and the abuse it could take.

Yes, most of this barrel had a life of hot loads, that were marginally under/at high pressure, not for the faint of heart for sure, but I found a sweet spot and kept that recipe going for a while.

Will be interesting to see what I can get out of the 20" barreled rifle I have for the wife and daughter when they come along. Right now pushing the 127gr LRX at 2780fps, with a sweet spot, again right near max, and def a compressed load. Will have to wait until the cases come out for reloading and see what I can drive them at, but I'm already compressed, so will be interesting to see the powder combinations they use.
 
I read "Sniping in France" by Pritchard and he talked about Lee Enfield barrels only giving 200-300 rounds of optimal accuracy... so maybe he would've called that burnt out. Which should not happen with a .303 British according to our ways of thinking.
For a hunter to avoid a certain cartridge that he otherwise wants to use just because he's afraid the barrel will be useless after 700 rounds or whatever it is, seems silly to me.
 
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