I have a 6.5 Creedmoor which I really like. I reload for it and shoot it really well, sub 1/2" MOA groups at 100 yards and no problems hitting an 8" steel target at 500 yards. I was thinking about adding a different long range caliber and am contemplating a 6.0 Creedmoor and a 6.5 PRC. I realize they aren't similar, but no matter which one I choose, I end up with two rifles with two different shooting characteristics. Which one would you choose?
6.5 PRC or 6.0 Creedmoor, Which Would You Choose?
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DaveTooley
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What's your max range? Speed costs money. What's your budget?
You might as well go ahead and get your 6BR now instead of another gun or two down the road.
6.5 forever
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Get them both. Or the 6.5 PRC.
My max range is nominally 1200 yards, although I do have access to a one mile range, but its expensive to use and hard to get to. I doubt I'll get access to it very often. As far as budget, I won't spend more than $2,000. I only have $1,200 in my 6.5 CM and its plenty accurate for me,
I'd seriously choose neither...for me, I chose the 6 Dasher, as I already ready have made that choice (the 6 GT was considered too) its fast and very accurate... But for accuracy, economics, recoil, and more fun hands down the 6mm Creedmoor over the 6 5 PRC for shooting fun... if I was hunting game larger than deer the 6.5 PRC would be better between the two...but still I would not choose the 6.5 PRC. I'm getting rid of my 2, 6.5s as they are "inbetweeners" for me, as soon as I use up all the components, or burn out the barrels.. If I had to choose a PRC it would be the 300.
I have had two 6mm Creeds and they both were hammers, farthest I shot them was at 1K. You can get a 105 to 3200 FPS where getting hits out to 1k is almost too easy.
The only issue is barrel life, there is no free lunch. Never had a 6.5 PRC so cant help you there.
The only issue is barrel life, there is no free lunch. Never had a 6.5 PRC so cant help you there.
I'd love a 300 PRC, but I've got a messed up shoulder courtesy of a deer and motorcycle coming together in the same space. I've divested myself of large bore guns.
Ranger188
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You already have a 6.5. The 6 creed won't do much different. I do prefer it to a 6.5 creed
You could use the same brass and just neck down. And the same die with a smaller bushing
if you are looking to save money.
But if you want different, then pick the 6.5PRC. It's a 6.5 creed on steroids and will push
your distance out to where you want, a bit easier.
You only asked about those two calibers and since you have a bad shoulder, I won't
offer larger calibers as an option. A good muzzle brake will help with that.
A cursory search for 6mm Dasher guns didn't turn up any except high $$ custom guns. Who makes them for normal people?
What the pros use in PRS ...shooting out to 1200 meters..I Heard of1400 in a shoot off. By 2018 85% had moved from the 6.5 mm to the 6 mm. Top cartridge was the 6 dasher by far that year 6 Creedmoor, 6×47, 6 BRA. Seven out of the 8 top shooters were shooting 6mm cartridges. Each year the cartridges will sometimes change around cause they all seem to jump on what the winner used. What the pros use is the vast majority a 6 mm. Go to extreme long range or king of the 2 mile ya might want a larger caliber if you expect to win....or go to the high desert and plink away at a mile or two with your 6mm, and hopefully see little bullet splashes in the dust, as you walk it in. It'd work for me...but I probably take along something with more gusto on impact to complete "my" day.
Have fun...
Have fun...
I think @urbanrifleman makes PTC barrels chambered in 6 dasher. Pretty straightforward process to install one on the action of your choice at home without breaking the bank.
The 6 Dasher is not a standard rifle caliber, but any good gunsmith can chamber one for you. I chamber my own, and have a chamber reamer for my needs so it will only cost me the price of about $400 plus $20 shipping for a new barrel blank to chamber the next 6 mm dasher barrel when I shoot this one out...so I don't get concerned about barrel life. I understand that most shooters are not retired machinist with a machine shop... so they must depend on others to do the work for them. I use mostly Bartlein 5 R barrels these days because they tend to shoot. Order from Bugholes or Southern Precision rifles. Go to their site they not only have a variety of barrels but chamber them for certain actions and you can assemble it with a go-gauge and Ramage style nut, with their bugnut...
Others provide this check with barrel makers, it's probably the least expensive way to get into 6 dasher. A machinist is the best job in the world. I recieved my Bartlein barrel blank at noon, took the barrel off an old Remington action, trued the action, threads, face reciever, threads & lugs and bolt lugs, bolt nose, check bolt face for square. Mill & Install m16 Extractor, mill down bolt knob, and thread 5/16" x 24. Turn bolt knob on lathe, and mill a grenade pattern in it. Next to the barrel threaded it chambered it, threaded for a Area 409 break, torqued the barrel to the reciever...check headspace again, assemble the rest of the rifle, install into an aluminum chasis and torqued in the barreled action. With out skim bedding this time. Rifle done 8 hrs or so load up some ammo ...and shoot it the next morning with in 20 hrs, ..from barrel blank and parts, to complete rifle along with reloaded match ammo ...in 20 hrs. My 6 mm Dasher, was shooting tiny groups right from the start. Did I say, "machinist, the best job in the world." Right next to being a tank commander....for sure.
And ya never have to wait months for someone to build you a rifle...and you can do crazy things no one else would do....got an idea build it. Thats how ya run 230 gr ATIPS at 2620 fps out of a 308 case. A 308 case will develope over 3600 ft/ lbs of muzzle energy with 200 gr SMK at 2856 fps my go to load. Also a ulterd 300 RUM reciever to feed 4" cartridges running 250 gr ATIP over 3000 fps, or 3100 fps in a 30" barrel... Or a roughing die to bring 30-06 or 308 down to 8.6 Blackout one pass no lube required no annealing and beautiful 30 degree shoulders ...I should patent this one, it is a good idea. But people don't do that anymore just let someone else make it for them.. and if acquired the skills and a productive logical thought process, you can make it yourself...and, better, alter it, improve it ... Life is a learning experience I've never stopped learning. And maybe it's just a hobby, but it's more rewarding when you can carry out your ideas in metal...its solid...and your efforts will be here, long after you're gone. Todays lesson...
I got first the 6mmCrdM and then built at home my 6.5 PRC with 30" barrel, a Bench/Prone rifle.
The 6.5 PRC is capable of hits at 1500 yards or more.
It is a monster of a rifle at 1000 yards. I can launch a 145-147gr bullet at close to 3100 fps from a 30" tube
If you are 100% reloader, necking up a 6.5 PRC case to 7mm could beat the 6.5 PRC as the 180-190gr bullets have higher attainable BC than the 6.5 variants.
Similarly, 7-300 PRC (necked down 300 PRC) has a better Ballistics performance than the 300 PRC, but at the cost of lower barrel life.
The 6.5 PRC is capable of hits at 1500 yards or more.
It is a monster of a rifle at 1000 yards. I can launch a 145-147gr bullet at close to 3100 fps from a 30" tube
If you are 100% reloader, necking up a 6.5 PRC case to 7mm could beat the 6.5 PRC as the 180-190gr bullets have higher attainable BC than the 6.5 variants.
Similarly, 7-300 PRC (necked down 300 PRC) has a better Ballistics performance than the 300 PRC, but at the cost of lower barrel life.
A little pill that can fly, or 25 PRC
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