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Finally managed to molest a 6.5 Creedmoor today.

7 MOA drop at 700 yrds... what a slick little cartridge 123 gr, 125 gr and 129 gr are the ones I fondled.

The rifle was a Ruger Hawkeye....

I need this chambering ASAP !
 
6.5 cal

All 3 chamberings are very close.
260 Rem, 6.5X47Lapua and the 6.5 Creedmore.
So in the end it'll all boil down to quality of work and quality of components.
Oh and lets not forget the SHOOTER!
 
260 wins hands down. someone smart needs to fix the 6.5x55 case a bit .. or i might have too. remove taper. add say 10% more case capity and we will leave all these calibers in the dust. kinda like my 6.5wsm but with less barrel appatite
 
tylerjwitty said:
260 wins hands down. someone smart needs to fix the 6.5x55 case a bit .. or i might have too. remove taper. add say 10% more case capicity.
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he11 of an idea:),.....shorten it to, oh, say about 51mm, so it fits a short action better......blow out the taper, should add some powder capacity...hey,...wait a minute:eek:...that's pretty much a 260 Improved....:D
 
sealhunter said:
Finally managed to molest a 6.5 Creedmoor today.

7 MOA drop at 700 yrds... what a slick little cartridge 123 gr, 125 gr and 129 gr are the ones I fondled.

The rifle was a Ruger Hawkeye....

I need this chambering ASAP !
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I notice that so far, no one has questioned the above figures. Where did they come from?
I did a quite a bit of real world expireminting with a good 270 with a 24 inch barrel. I used top loads with two of the best powders and tried several brands and shapes of bullets, in both 130 and 150 grains. I checked every load first at 100 yards, then had a large target with suitable aiming mark, high enough to enable the bullets to hit the target.
Bottom line. With sightings of 2 1/2 inches high at 100, best loads were about 33 inches low at 500.
That means from zeo to 500, they were about 6.5 MOA low. However, we had 2.5 MOA high at 100, so total would be 9 MOA at 500 yards.

Bottom, bottom line, I can't believe the 7 MOA at 700 yards, as quoted!
 
H4831 said:
I notice that so far, no one has questioned the above figures. Where did they come from?
I did a quite a bit of real world expireminting with a good 270 with a 24 inch barrel. I used top loads with two of the best powders and tried several brands and shapes of bullets, in both 130 and 150 grains. I checked every load first at 100 yards, then had a large target with suitable aiming mark, high enough to enable the bullets to hit the target.
Bottom line. With sightings of 2 1/2 inches high at 100, best loads were about 33 inches low at 500.
That means from zeo to 500, they were about 6.5 MOA low. However, we had 2.5 MOA high at 100, so total would be 9 MOA at 500 yards.

Bottom, bottom line, I can't believe the 7 MOA at 700 yards, as quoted!
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the ruger hawkeye will not make it worthwhile to compare at 700 yards
 
H4831 said:
That means from zeo to 500, they were about 6.5 MOA low. However, we had 2.5 MOA high at 100, so total would be 9 MOA at 500 yards.

Bottom, bottom line, I can't believe the 7 MOA at 700 yards, as quoted!
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The CM and the .260 are pretty similar in performance. I didn't run out and crunch a bunch of numbers, but...

A .260 with a 140gr bullet with a decent BC will give you about 8.5MOA drop at 500 if your rifle is zeroed at 100 yards.

With a 100 yard zero, drop at 700 yards should be about 14MOA.

Of course it's easy to turn a turret 14 MOA, so it's no real big deal.:p
 
The 6.5x55 case is just fine and cannot be improved. It certainly doesn't need "fixing". Slightly smaller cartridges might have greater accuracy potential but I've not seen any real evidence to support this. Regards, Bill
 
can anyone give me some recent info on the 6.5 creedmore,I read a lot about the cartridge,but don't know anyone that actually has one .I have a Tikka m558 in 22-250 going to re-barrel it and considering 6.5 creedmore
 
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