Originally Posted by Cowboybart
Originally Posted by 260Remguy


If Green Mountain would made a run of Savage 110 spec barrel in the Creed, one of them and a $250 Marlin XS7 from CDNN would go together like V8 and Bud.


I acquired a take off barrel from a Savage in 6.5 "Creed". I spun it onto a Marlin XS7. My plans were to make it a 260 AI barrel. However, with all the hub-ub about the Creed, I might check headspace and shoot it. I haven't shot it because I believe in the Don't Shoot the Donor philosophy. I recently acquired a Stevens in 243 that could easily become the 260 AI.


Somebody just sold a Savage 11 barrel in 6.5 Creedmoor for around $175 on eBay.

I bought a Savage 11 barrel in 6.5 Creedmoor from Savage a couple of years ago and spun it on a Marlin XS7. It shoots fine, but not quite as good as my RAR-Predators or Vanguard2s. Out of five rifles in 6.5 Creedmoor, it is the lightest and shoots MOAish with 120 grain Hornady AMax factory ammo, but the other four rifles shoot sub-MOA with about anything you feed them.