Best 6.5 creedmoor
01-13-2017, 12:03 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Illinois
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Talk about a question leading to MORE questions!! Hunting what? Hunting where? Type of cover hunting in? What do you mean by "over sized" barrel, length, contour, or what? Type of action preferred, single shot, semi, bolt action? The Creed was designed specifically for the AR platform and seems to perform well from it. That's not to say one can't get a nice bolt action to shoot it just as well or even better.
Edit to add: BTW, welcome to the forum!!! Specifics are always welcomed to the best of your abilities and knowledge. Hard to help if we don;t know the full extent of your needs.
Edit to add: BTW, welcome to the forum!!! Specifics are always welcomed to the best of your abilities and knowledge. Hard to help if we don;t know the full extent of your needs.
01-13-2017, 12:51 PM
#3
Spike
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Join Date: Jan 2017
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Sorry about that. I am looking for a bolt action with a heavier contour to use for mostly deer in east texas with shots within 200 yards, but I would like to be able to shoot further when I wanted too. Thanks for the welcome.
01-13-2017, 01:05 PM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Illinois
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Okay another question, one I probably already know the answer to...Do you reload or know anyone that does? If not, then the Creed wouldn't be the best cartridge choice for your needs. Factory ammo isn't really all that plentiful. As well as the Creed would REALLY benefit from some loving at the reloaders bench. Especially in a bolt gun. My recommendation would be the 7mm.08. Factory ammo is readily available in most locals and, in my lowly opinion, is probably the best whitetail deer cartridge on the market today for ranges out to 400 yards.
01-13-2017, 01:27 PM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Knee Deep in FL Muck
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Okay another question, one I probably already know the answer to...Do you reload or know anyone that does? If not, then the Creed wouldn't be the best cartridge choice for your needs. Factory ammo isn't really all that plentiful. As well as the Creed would REALLY benefit from some loving at the reloaders bench. Especially in a bolt gun. My recommendation would be the 7mm.08. Factory ammo is readily available in most locals and, in my lowly opinion, is probably the best whitetail deer cartridge on the market today for ranges out to 400 yards.
I could not agree with you more on the reloading thing and 6.5creed.
I have a Savage 10fcp-sr 6.5creed. 24"fluted barrel, DBM, Accutrigger, Accustock in its factory configuration. It is a dream to shoot and I'm slinging 140s out to 500yrds in the 1/2MOA-3/4MOA range consistently now that I have tweaked the load some more with 1/2MOA being the closer side to the norm. And on occassion the world comes together and the stars align and this thing shoots stupid small groups and from time to time I step in and put some human input into the gun and it shoot a big group. I paid $565 shipped for the rifle. Put a Vortex Viper on it that I picked up used for $220 and a $100 harris Bipod. So $885 and I'm SUPER happy with the results. Side note I havn't started fiddling with lighter bullets as 140SSTs are my hunting round so that is what I have worked up, but I am expecting even better results when I drop down to some paper puncher/varmit weight rounds.
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01-13-2017, 03:24 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
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Location: Illinois
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dat wuz funny right der !!! Honestly, there aint a lotta love for the Creed. I had my 6.8 SPC built several years ago and that thing is stupid accurate. The Creed, as I said previously, is an okay round. Especially in an AR configuration. But for a bolt gun, there's just too many better choices. Especially for the non handloader. Those dependent upon factory offerings are pretty much stuck with anemic factory loadings as well as the short supply over all.
01-13-2017, 04:49 PM
#9
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Martin, TN
Posts: 854
Well, I don't know about "best," but this one's a pretty good one for $650: Weatherby Vanguard S2 Synthetic
It doesn't come with a heavy tapering or bull barrel, but my Vanguard will shoot my handloads into a .5" group at 100 yards with someone competent behind the trigger (read: someone other than me, lol).
It doesn't come with a heavy tapering or bull barrel, but my Vanguard will shoot my handloads into a .5" group at 100 yards with someone competent behind the trigger (read: someone other than me, lol).