Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Good 6.5 Creedmoor loads

I have an appreciation for a post like this. You don't say you have a "1/2 moa" rifle, you actually prove how it shoots with 10 shot groups. Well done John. I always appreciate that kind of honesty!!

Now, I have a load that works very well. I've been running it for quite some time now. Worked it up in my Cabela's exclusive Savage 12fv. Here's how that rifle shot. I'll post 10 shot groups too, because a rifle cartridge designed for competition seems arbitrary when you post 3 shots. It's liken to posting 3 shot groups for a varmint rifle or heavy barreled competition rifle. It just doesn't make sense.


Same load in Tikka Superlite:


Same load in S&W M&P Performance Center 6.5 CM, but with a reduced OAL to fit in magazine:

1 more to prove that wasn't a fluke:


Same load in CTR #1. Adjusted OAL to .020" off lands:


Same load in CTR #2:


At a club shoot the other day, I threw 10 downrange to see where my POI was, since I hadn't shot the damn thing in so long. A little low and to the right with the same load I've been using for years in all of my creedmoors:


Then after adjustment:


Pretty consistent load. I dropped the last shot!!!!!

Some guys say they have good loads. Others, like you, prove you do...