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What is the parent brass for the 6.5 Creed?
Is it difficult to get new brass for that
and what brass can I use me form the 6.5 Creed????
I won one and not really sure I want to shoot or if I should just sell it.
I have been using a 6.5x284 for a long time and happy with it.
Thanks
Tim
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6.5 Creedmoor is based on the .30 TC. You can form brass from a lot of things, but its easiest to just buy it. It isn't expensive for high quality brass and once-fired brass is cheap.
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Should be easy to sell NIB. If you're near a SW check them out. At my local SW they have 6.5 CM brass & ammo, and 6.5 bullets stacking up.
It's you and the bullet, and all the rest is secondary.
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In a pinch, you can form CM from 308 or 7.62 brass. GD
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Thanks guys. Not sure how I will proceed with this gun.
It is a Savage Apex II. Not high end, but it just may be a shooter.
I am not a real the tupperware stocks though.
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My advice would be not to shoot it, as it will probably shoot great. Have fooled with around 10 6.5 Creedmoors, and even the cheapest (a T/C Compass) would average 3 shots of factory ammo in an inch at 100 yards. The most accurate was a Ruger American Predator, which would put five under half an inch with the first handload I tried.
As a more general comment, brass can also be easily fire-formed from .22-250 cases with the Cream-of-Wheat method. I actually did that a little when the Creedmoor was relatively new, before factory brass became so abundant. But the round became so popular finding brass was never an issue....
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You might have the ultimate truck gun. Cheap, probably very accurate, good factory ammo available if you don't shoot it enough to reload.
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I have a couple Savage Creeds, both shoot under an inch. It would be a fine truck rifle. Brass is plentiful.
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You might have the ultimate truck gun. Cheap, probably very accurate, good factory ammo available if you don't shoot it enough to reload. Truck gun in Michigan, I wish..haha
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