What is the best,6.5-47 Lapua or 6.5 Creedmore

[brianc74]

What is the best round for a 24 inch, 1-9 twist barrel, a sporter rifle that total wt is 8lbs. 6.5-47 Lapua or the 6.5 Creedmore. I will be hunting with this in freezing temps

 

[bowslngr]

yes.

 

[Laurie]

Brian,

for hunting in very low temperatures I'd go for the Creedmoor purely for its large primer that will provide infallible ignition in such conditions. The 6.5X47L uses small primers that might just be marginal for this purpose.

Performance-wise, there is very little between them otherwise. For target shooting or long-range varminting in higher temperatures, I'd more likely recommend 6.5X47L thanks to Lapua's brass quality.

 

[7 loader]

I agree with yes

 

[w123driver]

6.5x47 Lapua. Small primer=more effective combustion, more reloads.

 

[brianc74]

I say thankyou for all that have contributed to this thread. I am picking up a Cooper SA repeater tomorrow, and Cabelas is holding both calibers for me. I read that you can form 22-250 Lapua brass into the Creedmore with 18 grains if Unique powder and fill with creamwheat and a WLR primer.

 

[Laurie]

6.5x47 Lapua. Small primer=more effective combustion, more reloads. [w123driver]

care to explain the rationale behind this statement please?

 

[Bigame1]

I would say the 6.5 Creedmore as you are going to use it hunting and if you should ever get in a bind you may( and a lot of praying) be able to buy some factory ammo at a store as with the 6.5 x 47 Lap. you are out of luck. I'm looking at the Creedmore but don't know if it will be in an AR10 platform or a bolt gun? the brass price is a little less than the Lap.etc.

 

[7 loader]

6.5x47 Lapua. Small primer=more effective combustion, more reloads.

I need help with this to. Not trying to be smart, just don't understand.

 

[CZ550]

All I know is I took 5 pieces of 6.5x47 brass and reloaded them over and over and over at least 25 times and they had been fired several times before that they were still going strong. Haven't messed with the creedmore because I have no desire, it should be very similar to a 47 but lack of quality brass is a big negative to me.

 

[FroggyOne2]

CZ550, do you mean that the lack of ready made quality brass keeps you from using the 6.5 Creedmoor, I am sure that there is as of noted previously on the board that there is quality brass for the 6.5 Creedmoor.. just have to fireform it.

 

[7 loader]

I have used the horanady brass and liked it. The 6.5x47 is still a great RD, But factory ammo is hard to find where I live for the 6.5x47.

 

[GSSP]

If I were to depend upon factory ammo, of any flavor, to hunt with, even in emergencies, I'd quit the whole shooting sports all together! Heck, I might as well just stick with a 30-06. Not that that's a bad caliber. Have owned one for going on 3+ decades now.

With that said I spent over $4k last fall to have a custom hunting rifle in 6.5x47 put together. Living in Utah, I do most of my load development during the winter months when I don't need to worry so much about heating up a barrel. I've yet to have any issues with the small rifle primer igniting any load I've shot in temps down to the single digits. I don't believe the -47 case holds enough powder to worry about any primer being able to ignite it all.

I settled on either the 140 Partition or the 140 VLD ahead of Rel 17. I push the Partition to 2865 and the VLD to 2965 fps in a 26" #3 SS Broughton, 8 twist barrel. The Rel 17 prefers the Fed 205M primer over the CCI 450 primer which works better with H4350.

Blanc74,

Hope you like what ever caliber you go with.

Alan

 

[CdnHotshot]

I'd suggest the 6.5-47 over the Creedmore for inherent accuracy, consistency and reliabaility.
Yes, LAPUA brass gives you all that !

 

[olympian]

6.5x47mm

 

[JabaliHunter]

I can't wait for my 6.5x47 hunting rifle to be finished. I know it was the right choice

 

[Erik Cortina]

This is what my 6.5x47 Lapua did at 1,000 yards about two weeks ago, it is a 7 shot group. The marker is 3"!

This was shot during a F-Class competition, a new shooter was shooting my gun, and when the wind died, he drilled seven "X's" in a row!

 

[Radar]

He is using it for a hunting gun,not targets so the brass debate is not important. Will the small primer in the 6.5X47 work when it's 10-20 below zero?? I know it's capacity is a little less but I know of one .22 Cheetah(.308 case with small primer pocket) that didn't work in the cold.

 

[brianc74]

I am going with the 6.5-47 Lapua in a Cooper model 54 with a 24 inch 1-9 twist barrel. I pan on shooting the Berger 130 hunting vld and the Barns 120 TTX. I think thistwist will stabilize the bergers just fine. I think I can reach out to 700 yards on deer sized game. What do you all think.

 

[Klong]

As a general rule for deer size animals and humane kills, 1000 foot pounds of energy is needed. If you are shooting around 2700 fps at the muzzle, you reach that energy threshold at 550 yards. You would need at least 3000 fps to reach that energy threshold at 700 yards.