Is 6.5 all it’s cracked up to be for whitetail hunting?
10-22-2019, 03:45 PM
#31
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2019
Posts: 62
I have shot two mule deer bucks with the 6.5 Creed in specialty pistols. One at 265 yards, and the other at around 280ish. First one used a 140 A-Max and on the second deer I used the 142 LR AB. If you go to the longrangehunting dot com forum under the specialty pistol section, you can see pics. The one I shot with the Pachmayr Dominator is on my youtube.
12-10-2019, 01:25 PM
#32
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Kansas
Posts: 3,902
There’s a lot of silliness around the Internet, so I should never be surprised to find it. But this particular thread has been rehashed way too often for folks to continue to ignore the actual facts and arguments presented in these things...
”The new X is stupid, the old Y does the same thing. I like the old Y because it’s been great for longer....”
If one thing is great, and another thing matches it, then both have to be great. One can’t be terrible.
You can’t give me a 270win in 2020 and beyond. Absolutely silly to carry a long action rifle and burn 15-20grn more powder to do the same job as the Creedmoor case.
”The new X is stupid, the old Y does the same thing. I like the old Y because it’s been great for longer....”
If one thing is great, and another thing matches it, then both have to be great. One can’t be terrible.
You can’t give me a 270win in 2020 and beyond. Absolutely silly to carry a long action rifle and burn 15-20grn more powder to do the same job as the Creedmoor case.
12-10-2019, 01:46 PM
#33
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Eastern wv
Posts: 3,645
just got a creed, was I impressed? Yep, just as impressed as I am with the 7mm/08, my 6mm, the 25wssm, the 243, and all the other deer rifles I have. the main advantage of the creed is this, they were hyped to the max and lived up to it due to the fact that when it was introduced, it came out in a well built factory rifle and was accompanied by decent factory ammo. an accurate 130-140 gr bullet at 2850 to 2950 fps is as good of a deer round as you can get.
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12-10-2019, 03:46 PM
#36
Super Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Trumbull County, Ohio
Posts: 9,520
100" of growth after the shot would be useful for Pennsylvania public land deer! Lol.
It took me 4 full days of hunting and a couple afternoon sits as well before seeing this legal buck. Maybe the Creed could help draw in the big bucks too??
-Jake
It took me 4 full days of hunting and a couple afternoon sits as well before seeing this legal buck. Maybe the Creed could help draw in the big bucks too??
-Jake
