Thread: 6.5 Creedmoor? whats everyones thoughts? on hunting performance

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

possibly the batch of mini mausers where the bolts got mixed up..... mines one of the tack drivers LOL. but 2" at 70 ish yards is shocking....

yes I have seen old 303 shoot better than that

Precision hunter 143 Eld-X 110-120m from Rem 700 onsite (estimated by 3 different people based on how may rugby fields is that) note group was shot at the end of barrel break in process, scope had short eye relief and caught me twice(was hard to refocus) maybe a week later shot 3 goats at approx 40m blew out their shoulders and felt like a stink bastard because I was wasting meat. Maybe a month after that went to chest shoot a wounded billy at 50m ( 22lr poached) hit its arse and animal escaped ( first time thats happened to me, never had a shot pull that far off).next day I lined up a target (after cleaning bore) standing/similar conditions hit target within 2 inches of bull. Glass bedded action and then retested rifle. maybe 2 MOA over 20 shots (federal 130 blue) couldnt change point of impact, so took rifle scope to gun city and they showed me that scope was tracking and shifting all over the place when I changed magnification, (hence it was thrown in the bin) all this 270-6.5 blah blah aside I just want to go hunting, I cant take a shot unless I know where it is going purely for ethical reasons. I cant develop skill without consistency. however I know from practice that the 270 is more than I need.

the crown of said 223 is corroded, silencer was obviously left on, silencer hard up on the forestock. so no realistic way of recrowning. .223 was a gift.

OK....maybe Ive been a bit harsh.....the hero comment tends to do that...
you scoped yourself using a LOUD rifle...and yo ualso own another harsh kicking rifle....not long after scoping yourself your shooting for whatever reason went to shit....and youve got what must be the countries most inaccurate .223...spells out FLINCH being a very real posibility
you have never said how well you can shoot your .45/70....... go shoot your animals under 150yards with that..... why not??? you have got it,assumably it hasnt been stuffed around with so still shoots straight... you wont damage anymore meat than with anything else,in fact you will probably damage less as big slow bullets tend to do that... from the few small animals Ive hit(wallabies the size of a 2year old goat) its more like someone has stabbed them right through with an apple corer..just a big empty hole with nothing inside it and bugger all bruising.
and while your at it..try some different ammunition in the 223...something 55 grns to begin with. for goats and fallow the .223 is pretty hard t ogo past with the 150ish yards ranges you were mentioning....and the 45/70 is just plain good fun with lesser loads in same ranges

Originally Posted by Mroach

the crown of said 223 is corroded, silencer was obviously left on, silencer hard up on the forestock. so no realistic way of recrowning. .223 was a gift.

yes there is...its called back boring.... basically you poke a fatter drill bit up its gunger and have a clean end to rifling some short distance back up the barrel..and gunsmith worth thier weight in goat shit can do it....and forestocks all over the country have been shortened by differing amounts to accomidate suppressors so worst case you spend $100 bucks to recrown and rethread 1-2" further back and cut 1-2" off end of the furniture and tidy it back up again. far better to have it accurate again and usable looking slightly naff than it looking origonalish and no good for anything.

Now that is a loooooooong suppressor!

Thank you Micky Duck, I had all good intentions for the 270, I ran out of money and time, I lost a house and a partner over covid, I am busily resurrecting a commercial diving career that nearly went under. I can see a logical progression to sort the the rifle out but I am just tired of it all. yep the 45-70 is awesome (Marlin 1985) I can ping bricks off fence posts on a 2 count at will (standing with irons) at maybe 30-40 yards. If I was to go .223 would have to be a different rifle.

standard gunworks spartan..

ok, I will look into it.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Now that is a loooooooong suppressor!

That’s what she said

As a long time .308 fan I found their results surprising. It looks like the 6.5 is maturing into a pretty decent round. Although I still think .308 performs better out of shorter barrels.

Be silly to buy anything other than a 6.5CM in a factory rifle for general purpose hunting these days

140-147gr 6.5mm bullets of the right construction at 2600-2700 fps kill things extremely well with light enough recoil and good ballistics to hit things. There's tons of ammo choices and it's as cheap as anything else. It's what I recommend any new hunter looking for a rifle to buy


Is it a 600m deer cartridge? generally no. Should most people be trying to shoot deer at 600m with anything? also no



(get a .223)

Confirmed on Fallow and red spiker. 143 ELDX on vital zone at 198 yards.

Originally Posted by Nick-D

Err you would have an 18 inch 260 but wouldn't go shorter than 20 in a creed? You reckon the less than 2% capacity difference will have any meaningful effect on performance in a short barrel? Performance between the 2 is all but identical.

My 16 inch creed accounted for 2 reds yesterday, factory 143 eld x moving at a measly 2530 ish. 2 clean, quick kills. Both quartering toward toward, one punched shoulder and carried through to back of ribs with a tennis ball sized exit. Big fat healthy animal. Other entered, traveled the length of the body and smashed the opposite side hip. Enough energy and excellent penetration = clean kills on medium sized game. Same rifle has taken animals out to 280y with no issues. Can wring plenty more out of it with handloads, but it works just fine with factory

Yeah I should have been more descriptive, I meant with the bolt stop, mag change to allow you to seat the projectile further out on a 260.