Thread: 6.5 Creedmoor... 123 or 130 or 140?

143gr ELD-X all the way for me. Hasn’t been a hunting discussion I know but this photo was last night’s goat action, from a little less than 250m out to 625-630m. Very little wind, sometimes its gets up a bit downrange and you have to watch out... but otherwise these 143gr pills have been outstanding. As per comments above, I also have to rely on drops data and back calculate velocity, rather than just the chrono. Out past 250m the Strelock gets it all wrong if I just use the chrono data.

Of all the pills I’ve used in .22, 6mm and .30, these long for calibre, heavy 6.5s have been defo the most reliable to hunt with out past half a click, accuracy speaking. On paper they’ll do 0.5” groups at 100m easy, often better, but its the downrange bankability that’s really impressed me, not just accuracy wise but the whopping great thump they deliver as well. Bloody good bullets, I’m fully converted.