I can't believe I got a Creedmore

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As the title says. I can't believe I got a 6.5 Creedmore. I actually had buyers remorse and felt sick to the stomach on the drive home.

I read Jerry's post and web site about the 783's.
Was in Cabela's today and they had a 783 heavy threaded barrel in 6.5.

Adjusted the trigger and floated the stock. Stuck on a 6-24 B&L 4000.

Ready to reload now.
 
Couldn’t get myself to drink the 6.5CM koolaid!
Seen plenty of friends succeed with it too.
As with everything else going on in my life, I always paddle upstream or go against the grain so to speak,
That’s how I ended up with the 6.5x47Lapua

I guess it’s time for you to stock up on H4350 now!
 
I've got a dozen 6.5x55 rifles in various forms from target to lightweight hunting rifles. 6.5 is a good caliber, there is no denying that. I held off a long time before I bothered trying out the CM version. Bought one of the cheapest I could find, $400 12FV from Cabela's, bedded it, stiffened the forestock with thread all and epoxy, filled the butt with lead wheel weights and caulking to make the stock a little more useful. I'm not blown away by the cartridge, it took a while to find a load it likes, while the 6.5x55's always shot great with everything from 110gr to 160gr.
It's sitting in an XRS stock now, but this is what it was like before the stock swap. I won't be getting rid of it that's for sure, but I won't be replacing any of my other 6.5x55's with CM's. The big benefit is good cheapish factory match ammo. I reload so a 6.5 is a 6.5 to me.
What I am interested in next is a 6mmCM...they have impressive ballistics with heavy for cal bullets.
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Ruger007 said:
Is the H4350 the be all powder?
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No, lots of powders work with the CM from 4064 up to H4831 in burn rate. I'm currently using D4064 with 140gr Nosler Custom Comp, left to right is 120grs (hates these) middle is FL sized brass with 140's, right is Redding NS sized same load. Seems to prefer NS brass in this rifle.

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For me it was not the marketing really with the 6.5CM. I needed something to target shoot, that would cross over to hunting. I wanted it to be bigger than 243, smaller than a magnum, I was thinking 308, but then the ballistics were better at distance than 308, plus you could just turn it into a 308 with ease if I hated it. My rifle liked factory ELDx 143's, and was easy to tune to Berger 140VLD hunters. I still would like a 308 of course, but not for long range. More like a Ruger Gunsite Scout, in fact one in 223 and 308.
 
A few weeks ago, first time with this one. Shot from a standing rest (front bag).

6.5 Creedmore (Tikka 20" compact (20" bbl)), 100 meters, 140 grain Sierra BT, Lapua brass.
Monkeying around with a new load. (White square is one inch)

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MartyK2500 said:
...As with everything else going on in my life, I always paddle upstream or go against the grain so to speak...
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Well, just don't urinate while standing facing the wind ))

My 16.5" 6.5 783 seems to like the 120 grain ELD-M / 38.8 grain Varget combo (2655 fps average)

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I rebarreled one of my match rifles to 6.5Creedmoor, and it is a fantastic 1K F/O rifle .
The young fella who wrangled it out of me actually won the Northern Steel shoot in Fort McMurray ( five shots on each gong from 200meters to 1K) last weekend and did it in a shoot off - cut a 3/4" dot at 500 meters to win !
Me, I am more of a 260 Remington guy, I have hunting rifle in 260 on a Highwall with an RKS barrel on it, and I just bought another F/0 rifle in 260.
Don't really care what case it comes out of however, if a 6.5 bullet is leaving the muzzle of my rifle I'm a happy camper!
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I bought a HB laminate in 6.5 creed on here , just because it was cheap and I was bored , I have buddy's dies here and reloading supplys also .
Tried the same load as buddy 143 hornady with h4350 and it shoots as small as his ctr and any I have . Saying that , I have several that shoot just as well to my limits (500 ish ) 308 with heavier Bullets , 243 , 6mm and 25-06 with faster Bullets 7mm rem mag with the 300win mag for more than paper at longer ranges ( at one time I thought I might shoot game way out there )

I did go out to 800 yds with the mags and the 6.5 but found the wind changes way to much for my skills to try to shoot at critters with confidence

So -- one of many good shooters with no real advantage to me -- I do like the low recoil for shooting more rounds when I feel rich and want to play though . Way cheaper to reload for 500yrd plus rifles , (for me that's just the mags and 6.5 creed )

The rem 783 needed the bbl Chanel relieved and the mag catch needed a bend ( mag was hard to release)
It doesn't feed smooth ( need to pay attention working the action fast or it jams kind of ) backing off and double pump gets it to feed
I think the mags could be better designed.
 
The 6.5 Creed is the only "good" Creed. It has an ideal power to weight ratio for heavy long range bullets. Barrel life is fair and long range performance is great.... But keep in mind it's the high BC 6.5mm bullet that is the key to such long range success... not exactly the case shape, although it does have certain geometric benefits. The shoulder angle resists case growth and you wont need to length trim brass as often as a 308.

Necking down a 6.5 Creed to 6mm works but at the cost of crazy short barrel life. If you just hunt, you probably wont shoot enough rounds to smoke a barrel so that's probably no concern, but for a high round cound guy, you better have deep pockets to feed it barrels. That's why so many 6mm guys are rightly drawn to 6x47L (with large primers) or 6 Dasher.

As for a 22 creed.. well that's really pushin it. You gotta not shoot it much or have some sort of Federal government pension to afford to keep that running. I wouldn't want one unless it was free... then I'd rebarrel it in something remotely practical.

If you think about it... if the 6.5 Creed is the ideal balance and worthy of its fan base, then the necked down 6mm should have a reduced powder capacity in proportion to the smaller and lighter bullet. The same is more true for the 22 Creed variant.
 
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I wanted a range gun for retirement, something decent, components readily available, 6.5CM was available in all kind of guns. I would have liked a 7-08, to save buying new brass and bullets and dies, but didn't end up being available in what I wanted for a gun, after researching the krap out of them. I looked at lots of options, buying a Rem barreled action and putting it into a chassis, and stuff like the Bergara HMR pro. Got to looking at the Tikka TAC A1, just bought it to save all the screwing around with changing out the chassis off other guns or building a custom unit. It'll do what needs doing for me, not going hunting with it. CM will be cheap to operate, what the heck.
 
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