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Just yesterday, I got my 6.5 Creed back from my buddy. It started out life as a left-hand 22-250, Rem BDL. It now wears a 24-inch, heavy sporter 6.5 Creedmoor barrel. Some prelim shooting yesterday shows some real good stuff. I have been shooting a .260 (Criterion, also) for some time now and I think it may have been moved to backup status, since it is a right-hand action.

I have always been a fan of 7mags, .308s etc., but I am afraid that those rifles are not going to get much use by me from here on. I have been real happy with the results from the seven, or eight animals killed with my .260 out to 430 yards and have no reason to believe that this 6.5 will change my mind.

It is really appealing to this old bastard, to have a gun that does not recoil much, also.

I've always been interested in cartridges that recoil a little and kill a lot. The 6.5 in a 260, 6.5X55 Swede, or a Creed combined with bullets of modern technology IMO take that bar to a new level. What's not to like ☺



Trystan

Two pigs yesterday evening. It’ll kill.

I was a skinny 14 year old kid when I started deer hunting. My father had a Remington 760 30-06, with a steel buttplate. That thing literally knocked the schiet out of me. It bruised my shoulder, made my ears ring for a week, and caused me a flinching problem that lasted for years. Dad finally had a gunsmith put a recoil pad on it, but by that time the damage had been done. I don't like recoil, and discovered many years ago that a rifle/cartridge does not have to kick the snot out of you in order to kill what it is you're shooting with it. The one and only reason I'd ever want a large caliber rifle that walloped me, would be if I lived in grizzly country. I will deer hunt this year with a 6.5 CM and a 243, and be perfectly happy.

That gave me a chuckle thinking back to my grandpa, dad and uncles- Been there, done that. I think back in the ol' days they thought you had to have a little bit of a masochistic streak in you in order to shoot rifles .

Have to Laugh Joel.

The older I get, the more interested I am! My beloved 7mag doesn't get as much use as it used to.

Just put a Kimber Montana 6.5 CM together this week. Waiting for the weather and work to cooperate. Will be testing 140 Acc. and 143 ELD-X using H4350.

You might find close to max load of R17,142ABLR, Fed 210 to give better velo w/accuracy. Mac

I have the same rifle, and have played with those same bullets. Work up your own loads, but 42.5 gr of H4350 worked well for me. Pretty much everyone I know shooting H4350 in their 6.5 CMs wound up on nodes somewhere between 42gr and 43gr with 140gr bullets. I wound up finding my preferred loads with those bullets at 42.5gr RL16 (coincidence on the weight) for a little better velocity with good accuracy.

After buying a 6.5 CM Ruger American Predator and shooting it along side my fussy hi dollar 6.5 X 284, I got rid of the 6.5 X 284 , and now have 4 6.5 Creedmoor,s.

Just saw Remington is producing 140 grain core lokt's for the 6.5 Creedmoor. Cabela's has them for sale for $23 a box. Same bullets in a .260 are $38.