6.5 Creedmoor is surpassed

**Noah_Zark** · November 15th, 2018, 10:53 PM

Originally Posted by Steeltrap

Yeah. I would not be concerned. I load my 6.5x55 Swede for my modern action Savage and it pushes the 140gr. Hornady ELD to 2800+fps and I shoot it at the Ridgeway 1,000 yard varmint silhouette.

It's the bullet that has the BC and SD that makes it keep it's down range speed. Whether you launch it from the 6.5 Creedmore, 6.5 Swede, 260 Rem, 6.5-284 Norma, 6.5 Carcano......Ok....maybe not the Carcano.....But the bullet will do the work from all of 'em. Granted, a quality barrel, properly free floated and if you handload, proper brass prep, and all of those 6.5mm cartridges will do very well.

^^^ THIS.

Noah

**Bang** · November 16th, 2018, 02:34 AM

**wanneroo** · November 18th, 2018, 11:29 AM

There is always another faster cartridge out there.

Creedmoor in the package it is works very well which is why the US Army is adopting it for it's shorter range sniper rifles.

**ItchyTick** · November 18th, 2018, 08:41 PM

I'll stick with .22, .223 and .308.

Funny how many times I've seen the 300 blackout and 6.5 being sold used already.

**Lycanthrope** · November 19th, 2018, 12:36 AM

My .257 Wby cranks 110gr Accubonds at 3500fps without a sweat.

I still like shooting the .308 5R better. The Creedmore is fine, but really only excels if you want a light target gun to stay supersonic past 1000. Nothing wrong with it, but other calibers do it better and flatter if you really want that.

Lycanhastoomanybarrelburnersthrope

**Bang** · November 23rd, 2018, 11:18 PM

Thanks for the perspective. Makes a lot of sense.

**bfoosh006** · November 24th, 2018, 11:53 PM

Yeah... that added performance will come at the cost of dramatically lessened barrel life... more like a 6.5-284 barrel life.

**Qtrborecrazy** · November 25th, 2018, 08:23 PM

Haven’t seen a battle rifle in 6.5 creed yet.

**Buckeye63** · December 5th, 2018, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by Brick

Don't let it bother you. My 6.5 X 55 Swede can be loaded to velocities that approach 6.5 Creedmore levels and its a "century cartridge" just able to be performance improved because of modern steels and rifles.

I used to have a Bubbafied Swedish Muaser that I saved ...
Anyway .. I used Hornady 160gr RN in some of my handloads .. Great bullet ..

**Vermillionx** · December 10th, 2018, 06:58 PM

I am not sure why 100 fps is that much better. I hand load 6.5 in my RPR and I am getting 2850fps out of my loads. I am loading with 42.5 gr of H4350 and an OAL of mag length.