6.5 Creedmoor Long Range Accuracy Load

[daniel brothers]

2" of vertical at 300... and a bughole at 100 yds... wow... that thing is close

 

[hogpatrol]

View attachment 1056505 I recently had Alex Wheeler built a Remington/ Krieger 8.5 twist (26" Remington Varmint Taper) 6.5 Creedmoor for varmint shooting. Will be able to shoot eastern coyotes out to 800 yards in a rolling field behind a butcher shop that deposits scraps across the field. As I am very unfamiliar with the Creed and I would appreciate advise on loads for the task. Will be using Berger 130 VLD hunting orange box thin jacket as I have 900 to burn. Breaking in barrel (6 shot above) at 100 yards with 41 grains of Varget and CCI 450 primers at @3010 fps the rifle shot a number of .200 to .300 groups but at 300 yards the groups had about 2" of vertical.
Thanks for the help.
PS: My nephew will also be using it in PRS competition.
Roger Gower

Roger, How goes it with the CM? Have you had a chance to smack any long range coyotes yet? Curious as to how the VLDs performed.

 

[CaptainMal]

If you like that powder and bullet, try going up or down say .3 grains. See if that puts you on a compensating node and cuts down the vertical.

Tuner would also be an option.

 

[Leftybee]

Once you shoot out past 600 yds., you have to keep an eye on your muzzle velocities they have to be kept close. In other words you can have a very tight group at 100 yards. but your velocities might have 50 fps differences. All of your Nammo group bullets will work very well with R16 powder and some 6.5 creeds make little bitty holes with H4350. I sometimes shoot 130 Hybrids with R16. They'll offer a very long range accuracy.

 

[Grimstod]

Good shooting and grouping. Best of luck to you with your loads.

 

[dreever]

View attachment 1056505 I recently had Alex Wheeler built a Remington/ Krieger 8.5 twist (26" Remington Varmint Taper) 6.5 Creedmoor for varmint shooting. Will be able to shoot eastern coyotes out to 800 yards in a rolling field behind a butcher shop that deposits scraps across the field. As I am very unfamiliar with the Creed and I would appreciate advise on loads for the task. Will be using Berger 130 VLD hunting orange box thin jacket as I have 900 to burn. Breaking in barrel (6 shot above) at 100 yards with 41 grains of Varget and CCI 450 primers at @3010 fps the rifle shot a number of .200 to .300 groups but at 300 yards the groups had about 2" of vertical.
Thanks for the help.
PS: My nephew will also be using it in PRS competition.
Roger Gower[/QUOTE

It all depends on what brass you go with. Hornady has the most case capacity, Lapua less,, Alpha and Peterson even less.

 

[daniel brothers]

Are there any updates to this thread?

 

[#40Fan]

I'd be interested in seeing the results or lack of as well.