Thread: 6.5 creedmoor on deer

Good advice above regarding barrel length for 6.5's, 260. Keep above 22" or heading to 30/30 territory and away from whole point of these cartridges. If you want short barrel plenty of factory ammo 308 really stands out. One other thing my 6.5 CR Ruger shot both hornady super performance SSTs & GMX like a bag of shit (although fast) and almost took rifle back until did some reloads as had already bought dies &123 Amax & 140 Elds, and was then quite staggered by the accuracy from budget rifle, 5 shots .5" every time. Really is nothing to whack out 100 reloads and will last a fair while.

There are 2 main contenders for factory Creedmoors in a hunting rifle that I can think of at the moment and that is the HOWA Alpine Rifle or the new Kimber Hunter Rifle. I wonder which one would shoot better?......................

$800 Ruger American,


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Originally Posted by jackson21

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Nice, what speeds are you getting?

Before anyone goes and spends $ on a 6.5 CR. check each rifles box mag length, some have bugger all room to seat out the projectiles, others have plenty,,,,, if there's no spare length you may limit powder capacity/velocity/accuracy with 140 or 142 gr projs....... Thereby making the whole point of the cartridge less effective(in that rifle) . 284 and 6.5x 284 suffer similar problems= manufacturers chambering the rounds in med actions, when they require more length to make use of their design requirements.

And that's a 5 shot group so shoot or feather will be happy

140gr ELD-M behind 42gn of ADI2209 @ 2720ft/s average over my Chriny and 2730ft/s over me magnetospeed.

Originally Posted by PERRISCICABA

140gr ELD-M behind 42gn of ADI2209 @ 2720ft/s average over my Chriny and 2730ft/s over me magnetospeed.

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Think my 140's were doing around 2680 ft/s avg and 123's 2740ish ? Off a shit Caldwell crony. Didnt bother cronying much, keen to get a magnetospeed then not such a hassle.
Is yours a Ruger precision? Couple more inches of barrel length..+40 fps. I was a little disappointed in speed a little, but that's where it's sweet spot is. both loads had another at a much lower charge which is a good load for practice at 100m from practical shooting positions

Yes it is precision rifle... my rifle when new was shooting slower but now with 500+ rounds is great, I just shot a 1300yards target early today... pretty stoked!