I went to a local zoo two weeks ago and was looking at some eland. They are pretty big. I know the 6.5 Creedmoor is pretty popular and I have one myself but it's not magic. In all my years of reading hunting stuff and getting on forums I can't remember much being discussed about shooting zebra and eland with 260s and 6.5x55s, so why the Creedmoor? As someone said above why take a marginal cartridge where something a bit bigger would be better. I'd say it would be brilliant on the smaller gazelles and antelopes but I'd prefer something bigger for the larger game. Not necessarily a magnum but a .30-06, especially with the cost and fees of losing a wounded animal.
I know people always bring up Bell and his 6.5 and 7x57 but I bet back in those days they (the old time Afica hunters) never bothered to write about the animals that they wounded and lost.
