How many of y'all going to be using a 6.5 creedmoor this as your "go to" this year. Post a pic of it and load you'll be using. When the season starts we can start compiling some kill pics and bullet performance.

46 grains of superformance with 129 gr sst. @ 2800 fps.

Ruger Hawkeye predator

My wife switched this year. 130gr vlds, 140amax, 139 LS

Going to take it long and wax a few hogs this weekend and then decide which bullet. All three are sub moa and with in a inch of impact

Just a question, but really what is the difference between a 129 grain bullet moving at 2800 fps and a .270 throwing a 130 grain bullet at 3000 fps? I mean you may save a ft.lb of recoil but what do you gain?

BC after 500 with the right bullet.

less recoil and on a short action.

Manufacturers get to sell a lot of new rifles. That being said I now carry a .260 and it is sweet.

I am... dpms 24 in bull barrel with zeiss scope shooting 140 gr amax. Just got my mount in from swfa so i will be at the range monday

I'll be using my Horizon Firearms built 6.5. Haven't developed a load yet so I'm using 129 grain GMXs. Probably gonna type to cook up a 120 grain TTSX load.

It is my intent to wind up with some sort of non mag 6.5 or 7mm as THE last deer shooter. Low recoil on a every more cranky shoulder is becoming more of a concern, and deep penetration with good BC's, for use on every thing from mice to moose....just not Grizz. I'll use a larger but similar low recoil boomer in a 9.3x62 for bite back critters if I need to.
Ron

How long is that barrel? They make a 129 gr gmx?

16.25", no they don't. Just checked and they're Interbonds.

Nice.

Good round

Great round, I want to build a "semi" custom 6.5 Creedmoor with based on a Savage action. Saving up some money for the parts, all I have heard are good things about the 6.5 Creed.

Any of y'all ever shot a deer with sst in the creedmoor. Shot a bunch of pigs with it. Head shots and shoulders never had and exit but dropped em. I used the 120 amax on 4 does did pretty good. Used gmx out of my 270 didn't like them. No blood tiny hole in tiny hole out. Basically too much bullet for texas whitetail.

I've used SSTs in 7mm08 with good results on wt.

gain ? i dont see a gain i think its a turd, 140 gr at 2600 mehh. hodgdon load data actually shows the 130 in the creed at 2690, expect 50 to 100 fps slower

Why are you expecting it to be lower? Velocity is subjective to a lot of things.

That being said 6.5 offer great sd and bc numbers offering great penetration on game. The bc actually starts having a affect inside of 500 although it might be marginal.

140 amax-2739
139 lupa 2746
130 vld 2860

Clocked them last week.
Cooper creek ammo

Mine seems to do fine with the 123gr AMax. With Reloder 17 I can bump over 3000fps with a higher BC than any 130gr .270 bullet.
I have only shot half dozen or so deer with the Creedmoor though.



Of course I really like the .270 one of my all-time fave's but you do have lots of bullet choices in the 6.5. I don't know how the 6.5 Creedmoor will do on game at longer ranges but it will sure spank steel at 1000 yards no problem

Didn't want it to go this route and actually turn it into a ballistic thread. Just looking to see others using the cartridge. But obvious attempts to troll have derailed it. To keep it from being one of those 270vs65cmvs300winmagvs308vs30-06 threads I'll post pics straight from hornady books then we can move on talking about the op.

you can argue amongst yourselves if you want to argue a 2600fps cartridge its a turd

LMAO that's awesome coming from a guy tgat swears by the 22 Hornet.

even my hornet runs 2900 fps. haha
look, the 260 hasnt gone anywhere, the sweede has more case capacity than the creed the win mag LOL's at all three of them and the 270 put the final nail in the win mags coffin. its just another fad

6.5 anything is far from a fad. There have been way to many rounds released in the last few years much less rifles chambered in them. Velocity is not end all be all factor although I will agree it is a major factor to an extent especially when smaller projectiles are a factor. I think the 6.5 either Creed or 260 are the new 7mm-08 which is gotten extremely popular since it's samii classification.