Thread: 18" 308 or 6.5 Creedmoor Bergara Extreme Hunter

@rambo-6mmrem

Granted - but how much of a difference is 165 vs 130 going the same speed going to make on deer up to 400 yards? More knockdown power? wouldn't either be more than enough for deer at those speeds?

Originally Posted by rambo-6mmrem

I hate 30 cal with a passion but if i was going shorter than 20
Id be running a 308
As it stands I run all my modern Center fire barrels at 20”
Because i run 6.5’s and believe that is the minimum for performance the loss of performance starts to out waigh the gains of going shorter imo…. at 20” I still get a 130 doing 2900 out of my creedmoor
But i had an 18 inch 260 for a bit and the same bullet was down in the high 2600’s
A 308 with 18 inch can push a 165 in the same sort if range (within 100 fps or so anyway)
And a 165 going slow will be better than a 130 going slow just my 2 cents