What is it about the 6.5 Creed that makes it the best cartridge for any type of competition shooting
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Doug Beach
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The last part of your thread title got cut off. “for the unwashed, and unmanly.”
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I can't eat that much popcornHoney, we need popcorn in here stat!!
Its everything the .308 could never be. It should be allowed to replace the 308 in Palma
The 6.5 Creedmore with 139>142gr bullets will benefit from better ballistics when the bullets are driven at 2950>3000fps compared to the 308 using 190gr bullets. You would have to shoot 200gr+ 308 bullets to get higher BC numbers and put up with significantly more recoil. Your results will depend on practice, reloading ability, and of course the ability to read wind, mirage, and changing light conditions. The 6.5x55 and 6.5x55AI would be great alternatives to the Creedmore.
perry42
perry42
I think it's a trade off between light recoil and hard hitting enough to stretch out a distance. As well as manufacturers decided to give the cartridge a fast enough twist for longer higher bc bullets they probably also throated it for those bullets at an optimal length. Manufacturers can kill or propel a cartridge. I think that for the hunter/target shooter that want's one nice gun, any 270 caliber gun is better then anything else. The fact of the matter is that the 270win sat at a 1:10 twist with 22-24' barrel so long that I can now shoot 90-165gr bullets with the same barrel and twist thanks to the manufacturers making bullets to those specs. If I go custom, with a 1-7ish twist, since around 2006, I have several options of bullets that generally have BCs higher then their counterparts in 7mm (.284) and 6.5mm. I came from the airgun world before this and only in the past few months have I started shooting centerfires. At first the recoil upset me and made me focus a lot more on proper follow through but it's not like a 12 guage which punches you in the shoulder. I actually started shooting with the but of the rifle very light on my shoulder, very light, and it barely moves me at all and I'm a skinny ectomorph. I've never shot a 6.5Creedmoor and know theory only, not much in practice. How tight of groups do you want and what trade off between fpe and group size would be a factor. I've seen pics/reports of 270wbys shooting absurd speeds with 165 and 170 grain bullets and still .5 moa...
Nice 308... Like the rip cord. I was 82nd
You got that right, brother!
Medic505
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Gone way too soon.
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