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It's never been about favorite rounds for me as much as favorite hunting loads. For my typical moderate range hunting the 6.5 has nothing to compete with a 7-08 shooting a 120 BT over 3000fps or a .270 shooting a 150 partition at 2900 fps. The 6.5 is designed to take advantage of the high BC and sometimes that just doesn't matter.
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It's never been about favorite rounds for me as much as favorite hunting loads. For my typical moderate range hunting the 6.5 has nothing to compete with a 7-08 shooting a 120 BT over 3000fps or a .270 shooting a 150 partition at 2900 fps. The 6.5 is designed to take advantage of the high BC and sometimes that just doesn't matter. How about a 120 gr. BT at 3000+ fps?
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my 6.5 CM is shooting 130 game changers at 2900fps. 270 is 3100 fps. and I think 10 grains of more powder. I do love my 270 shooting 140s at 3050. but even now, at the very early stages the 6.5 is showing better promise than my old faithful at longer distance..
All of them do something better than the 30-06, but none of them do everything as well.
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It's never been about favorite rounds for me as much as favorite hunting loads. For my typical moderate range hunting the 6.5 has nothing to compete with a 7-08 shooting a 120 BT over 3000fps or a .270 shooting a 150 partition at 2900 fps. The 6.5 is designed to take advantage of the high BC and sometimes that just doesn't matter. How about a 120 gr. BT at 3000+ fps? Different bullet construction in the 7mm. The 7mm 120 is a little freak of nature.
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I know about the 120 7mm, load them myself. But the 120 BT has also been a sure fire deer whacker in 260 Rem loads.
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Btw - I shot an Elk between the eyes at 440y last year with this set up
Why?
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Aside from the most obvious 260 Remington, what cartridges has the 6.5 Creed hurt most? I am thinking the 7mm-08 is a likely candidate. The 6.5 Creedmore is just a flash in the pan and will be just another choice of chambering like any other round. There have been several whizzbang rounds in the past that were the end-all to the world of shooting, and after a few years the industry comes up with the next big thing and moves on.
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Aside from the most obvious 260 Remington, what cartridges has the 6.5 Creed hurt most? I am thinking the 7mm-08 is a likely candidate. The 6.5 Creedmore is just a flash in the pan and will be just another choice of chambering like any other round. There have been several whizzbang rounds in the past that were the end-all to the world of shooting, and after a few years the industry comes up with the next big thing and moves on. I don't think I have seen anything like the 6.5 Creed in my lifetime. There are more offerings of 6.5 Creed than 270 Winchester on Midway. I do not think it is a flash in the pan.
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Btw - I shot an Elk between the eyes at 440y last year with this set up
Why? Bump
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Btw - I shot an Elk between the eyes at 440y last year with this set up
Why? Bump Did you guys not read about the calculations?
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Aside from the most obvious 260 Remington, what cartridges has the 6.5 Creed hurt most? I am thinking the 7mm-08 is a likely candidate. The 6.5 Creedmore is just a flash in the pan and will be just another choice of chambering like any other round. There have been several whizzbang rounds in the past that were the end-all to the world of shooting, and after a few years the industry comes up with the next big thing and moves on. Twelve years and still going hot is a pretty darn long flash I'd say.
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Again.. go into an everyday gun shop... ask to look at the few AR’s they have... 5.56 & .308 with maybe a .300 thrown in... you guys are in your own worlds...
I do go into everyday gun shops. I also halfway track the AR world. 6.5 and 300 BLK are the ‘cool’ ARs right now, and I see a lot of AR stuff oriented at those.......which is a DIRECT ding on the .308.....which there’s less of right now in AR10s....directly because of the creedmoor. For most of my hunting, a 308can do it all just fine. My personal preferences lean to the 308/708, but the 6.5 was set up for success as a dual purpose target/LR/hunting cartridge for the one gun crowd, and it is.....highly successful. How much that’s detrimental to other cartridges (overall), I don’t really know. As far as large frame ARs go, especially LR/target themed guns, it’s hit the 308 pretty hard.
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The funny thing is, if the 6.5 Creedmoor was a relatively obscure wildcat called the 6.5 x 250 improved most of the old codger rifle loonies here would think it was cool as hell. Because it's become a popular, mainstream cartridge available everywhere in a wide variety of factory rifles, they don't want anything to do with it.
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That's wonderful shooting!! And I suspect I could paint it from memory (in great detail) it's been posted so many times!!
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That's wonderful shooting!! And I suspect I could paint it from memory (in great detail) it's been posted so many times!! I'll post another in a few days!
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