When I had my 6.5 Creedmoor built the doner rifle was a 700 Rem. in .308 and bolt face works fine. The mag is right there for lth. As most know a bullet should have it's dia. in case neck, and CM's have perfect neck lth. for 6.5 or .264 bullets. If your goal is targets then you will single fire anyways. Huntin bigger game the jump don't matter as much as with factory loads set at COL lths. JMO if your goin for 6.5/284 or 264 win. then yes I'ed go with longer action. Back to COL's CM's will shoot well almost with any COL for some reason. I shoot 95 and 120gr. bts. and have no problems just sayen....later