6.5mm-06 vs 6.5mm-284 vs 6.5 Creedmoor

[mikegaiz]

Having shot the 6.5-06 a lot I would recommend 260 Rem with Lapua brass. What ever you shoot go with Lapua brass. I love the 6.5X47L case, I'm going to build the 6mm-6.5X47L but not for 1000 yds. I feel the 6.5X47L is too small for good 1000 yd shooting. The 6.5 Creedmore uses Hornady brass. You do not hear good things about Hornady brass.

The 6.5X47 currently holds 3 IBS 1000 Yd. records. 260 holds 1 1000 Yd. GBA record. Lapua brass on both.

 

[GSPV]

When I wrote that, people were advising to go Savage for the nut system. Now, of course, there are nut systems for many actions and it’s pretty commonly known. I’m considering getting my Tikka hunting rifles set up with one.

 

[mauser284]

6.5CM, 6.5x47, or .260Rem. Get a 31 inch contoured blank. Should finish out 29-30 inches no problem. MTU Contour from Brux. This will get you started nicely! If you want a barrel burner a straight .284 will give you more life than a 6.5-284 will. Do it in 41XX and get it nitrided in process of your choice. The hardest thing to do shooting past 500 yards is reading the wind. That is the hardest thing to learn well when jumping from 500 and under to over 500. All of the other fundamentals of shooting are the same.

6.5-06 great hunting cartridge I love the cartridge but it is not on my competition radar it is much the same situation as the 6.5-.284 barrel life at the competition level is insanely short especialy if rapid strings are fired. A 6.5-06 or 6.5-.284 would last most hunters a lifetime.

When you know the range to the target external ballistics are not as super critical as most would have you think. Plenty of people have won F-Open with rifles shooting less than the ideal combo because of limitations of COAL or a twist rate that would not allow the heaviest of the newest VLD's for caliber.

 

[mauser284]

I went with the 6.5 creedmoor for target. Just like you I got it when I wanted to try some longer distance shooting and it is great for that purpose. I use it now just as a fun gun. I went with a Savage because it was on sale and also had a rebate available. It shoots great.

As to the Savage trigger. It’s a good trigger for general use but I use Savage rifles and actions for competition. I change them out of my competition rifles for rifle basix sav 2 triggers. I like those better than the Accu trigger only because I am able to set them lower than I can get the target accutrigger to go and still function.

If your not spoiled from decades of designer triggers I think most people will not have a problem with the modern Savage Accu-Trigger! I have two of them and think they are fantastic for a factory trigger. They break crisp and clean with little over travel or creep and very repeatable. I think 99% of people excluding BR moan too much about a trigger in 99% of the situations. I have never ever seen anyone's group size consistently or drastically shrink due to lighter trigger pull. Unlike match grade barrels, precision machining of action, barrel and precision handloading. Just like Proof's carbon wrapped barrels do not shoot any better than proofs steel non-wrapped barrels since the wrapped ones are just steel ones turned down and wrapped in carbon. Preference, Perception and Facts seldom travel in the same circles! Kind of like paying extra for nitrogen filled street car tires when regular air is 78% nitrogen on average. Wallet lightener anyone? If lucky socks make you shoot better than they do! LOL

 

[SEGARE]

My experience-

Before I discovered this and similar sites, I had been satisfied for many years with my .270 and 30-06. Both were from the early 90's, one plastic stock and one wood stock, and both guns were consistently no better than 1.5" and were usually closer to 2 inches with any factory load (tried quite a few trying to get to sub-MOA). Good enough to kill a deer at the typical 200yds, but iffy at longer distance. Two years ago I swapped both triggers for Timneys at the same time and both guns went to MOA with the same boxes of ammo that they were previously shooting.

 

[joe12180]

If your not spoiled from decades of designer triggers I think most people will not have a problem with the modern Savage Accu-Trigger! I have two of them and think they are fantastic for a factory trigger. They break crisp and clean with little over travel or creep and very repeatable. I think 99% of people excluding BR moan too much about a trigger in 99% of the situations. I have never ever seen anyone's group size consistently or drastically shrink due to lighter trigger pull. Unlike match grade barrels, precision machining of action, barrel and precision handloading. Just like Proof's carbon wrapped barrels do not shoot any better than proofs steel non-wrapped barrels since the wrapped ones are just steel ones turned down and wrapped in carbon. Preference, Perception and Facts seldom travel in the same circles! Kind of like paying extra for nitrogen filled street car tires when regular air is 78% nitrogen on average. Wallet lightener anyone? If lucky socks make you shoot better than they do! LOL

No I don’t think most folks will have any problems with the accutriggers either. I like them. However my own groups have shrunk with the lighter trigger pull.