Howa in 6.5 Creed
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I bought one during prophets xmas sale, less than $800 to my door and I am very happy with it. I already had a MDT Lss for it but still to plan to upgrade my buttstock, scope mount, and bipod. I took it out last week and put about 20 rounds thru it at 100 yards after i did the break in, 1" groups were easily done. I plan to start to do some load development now to really dial it in.
mine is the heavy barrel in 6.5 creedmoor
mine is the heavy barrel in 6.5 creedmoor
What model is it and how long of barrel on it.I bought one during prophets xmas sale, less than $800 to my door and I am very happy with it. I already had a MDT Lss for it but still to plan to upgrade my buttstock, scope mount, and bipod. I took it out last week and put about 20 rounds thru it at 100 yards after i did the break in, 1" groups were easily done. I plan to start to do some load development now to really dial it in.
mine is the heavy barrel in 6.5 creedmoor
Cheers
They have been around for a couple of years in the Howa line-up. The caliber seems to be becoming a little more mainstream particularly in the 2017 line.
As noted the Howa 1500's (various models) are chambered in 6.5 Creed - Howa even had a buyers special this year - buy X number of Howa's and get a 6.5 1500 Panamax free with your order.
They (Howa) were making them for Weatherby for at least 2 or 3 years now (Vanguard II's - I have had these in stock since last year).
In the Wby they are guaranteed to be sub-moa (not free floated with a 24" barrel) - can't imagine that Howa is changing the tooling to make their models although they do tend to market with shorter barrels on some of their sub-models.
At last years shot show Browning put the caliber in their AB3 line, now (for 2017) they are in the general release of AB3's and just about all the iterations of the X-Bolt so the caliber is probably here to stay for a while.
Plus, in factory rolled ammo, now "everyone" is churning it out in a pretty good variety of bullet choices. So if the factories have sprung for the tooling that's a good sign "it's made it" as a caliber.
As noted the Howa 1500's (various models) are chambered in 6.5 Creed - Howa even had a buyers special this year - buy X number of Howa's and get a 6.5 1500 Panamax free with your order.
They (Howa) were making them for Weatherby for at least 2 or 3 years now (Vanguard II's - I have had these in stock since last year).
In the Wby they are guaranteed to be sub-moa (not free floated with a 24" barrel) - can't imagine that Howa is changing the tooling to make their models although they do tend to market with shorter barrels on some of their sub-models.
At last years shot show Browning put the caliber in their AB3 line, now (for 2017) they are in the general release of AB3's and just about all the iterations of the X-Bolt so the caliber is probably here to stay for a while.
Plus, in factory rolled ammo, now "everyone" is churning it out in a pretty good variety of bullet choices. So if the factories have sprung for the tooling that's a good sign "it's made it" as a caliber.
