Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters 6.5 creedmoor, 708, or 270

I've killed deer with the 120 NBT out of my 7-08, not with the Creed. Good performance, small entrance, 2" exit with a fair amount of tissue damage.

My current Creed load is the Scenar 136L over RL-16. It's up next when I get a shot on a hog or WT.

I just mounted a NF 3-10x42 Forceplex on that one.

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I've used the 270 for many years on lope, deer and elk, plain ole 140 gr Hornady BTSP have worked every time. My middle daughter really likes shooting the 7-08 (from age 11-16). I started her with cast bullet loads and gradually worked her up to reduced jacketed loads and finally full power handloads. I have used it with 120 gr B-Tips for lope and deer and 150 gr Partitions for elk.

Two weekends ago my youngest daughter (age 12) shot her first big game animal, a cow elk at 365 yards with a 130 gr ELD-M from the 6.5 CM. I had her practicing through the summer at the range banging steel from 400 to 700 yds and occasionally out to 900 and 1000. She says she "prefers the 6 CM for those longer ones" though (meaning from 800 to 1000). I used the same 130 gr load for my deer the following day.

The 270 used to be my primary when I had a deer tag in hand but this year the 270 never even cleared the case. Next month my middle daughter has a cow tag to fill so we'll take the 7-08...or maybe the 6.5 CM

I just read this thread. I found it very entertaining. I'm sure everyone means well with their commits.
All of the rounds listed and talked about here are good.
"Just each to their own"

Yeah, but mine's better!

the Campfire way :

You: Yeah, but mine's better!

Me: Yeah? What do you have?

You : It doesn't matter.

Hey! This is illegal intill after hunting seasons is over!!!!!

No more. 204 Ruger vs a 50 BMG intill we're done hunting,period.

One thing about the 270 vs the 7-08 is the 270 doesn't really come into its own unless it's got a longer barrel. It's burning a lot more powder for the same bore diameter (okay .007 different). In a 22" barrel a 270 and 7mm-08 are neck and neck in most factory loads. Out of a 26" bbl the 270 smokes the 7-08. But at 22" and under they are identical except the 270 makes a lot more blast.

I shoot and kill stuff with both all the time but unless I'm carrying my 26" barrel 270... I don't grab a 270. That thing out performs what the factory box says in every single ammo I've shot through it--it slings most 150's an RCH under 3,000 fps and 130's at 3200. Whereas all the 22" 270's I've shot shoot way way slower than what the box says they should (though they still killed stuff real real dead).

6.5 as many others have mentioned to be feels like sort of a slight bump down from the other two (esp 270), but also as mentioned it might be an easier transition from a 223.

If you were handloading a 22" 270 using R-26, you'd find that 3000 with 150's and 3200 with 130's ain't no challenge. With accuracy and tiny velocity variation, to boot. I employed a 150 SST on elk this year, with a MV just a skosh below 3k fps. It's grand when you can aim on hair at over 400yds with a "standard" caliber. I'd love to see what R-26 would do with a 26" 270...

Posted this pic a bunch, so sorry if you’ve seen it already.

7mm-08, 150 ELDX, 409 yards. Mv around 2780.

Light recoil.

Nothing to it.





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How the hell did you get it out whole?? Nothing to it?

ROFL!!

I got this side, you take that side, start dragging. The trailhead is only three miles.


This bull:




Turned into this bull:



Via the same mechanism.

How do you do it?




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Naw, the 7-08 can't kill elk like that. It doesn't kick enough.

Cut and pack, anymore. Two this year, gutless butchering, took the quarters, flank, neck, tenderloins, and straps. Packing it out, one trip at a time. Still takes two of us.

I’m just yanking your chain. Both of those bulls fell where we could get at them with an ATV. Most of the time we start with this:




Which becomes this:





Which turns into this:





And if you look closely at the first pic, you’ll see a T3 in 7mm-08 leaning up against the tree.





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