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  • Andrew Garfield October 3, 2018, 8:44 am

    Can\’t wait to get a 6.5 creedmoor. Though currently I\’m using .308 win bolt action rifle. This 6.5 creedmoor works excellent on long range shooting. If I compare between .308 rifle vs 6.5 creedmoor, definitely everyone will take the 6.5 specially who like to shoot at long distance.

  • LG October 7, 2017, 9:00 pm

    Hello. Thank you for the article. I always enjoy hearing discussion on “new” or relatively new firearms and ammunition. I am a very determined supporter of the 6.5 mm caliber. Although I do not own a 6.5 Creedmoor, I do own and shoot a 6.5×57 Mauser with set trigger and Mannlicher stock and find it to be the most accurate rifle I own. Unfortunately the ammunition for it is rarissimo and expensive. I was just wondering why this caliber is being forgotten or ignored.

  • Jon October 1, 2017, 12:05 am

    Hey, I admit I am a bit thick in the brain, but I can’t seem to find again in this marketing spiel the part on this WunderRound where it will make coffee for me each morning!

    When someone hypes something to be so new and great, I recall those mental visions regarding what my great-grand-pappy used to tell and warn me about those snake oil salesmen.

    BTW, does this new round (in its new packaging) exist in reality where I can actually buy prepper quantities and amounts at decent prices where I don’t have to sell my truck and dog to obtain a decent supply as well as bountiful amounts of once-fired brass for those of us who consider the crapper might actually hit the fan?

    Just as others have pointed out, isn’t this old wine in new bottles, just like the crapola we get from the Washington Establishment (don’t forget the career Liberal, Communist-mongers who have infiltrated the bureaucratic jobs in all of the Federal branches of government).

    • Tj October 2, 2017, 12:02 am

      Thank you.

  • Rex September 29, 2017, 10:36 am

    Super video. A 6.5 is in my future.

  • Damon September 28, 2017, 10:03 pm

    Hey Brother! Miss seeing you! Old dogs find their way home at some point. Lol

  • DavidInCO September 28, 2017, 8:03 pm

    Clay, you mentioned trying the 140’s in a faster twist barrel. If I am not mistaken, being lighter (than the 147) and therefore shorter, it should require less twist to stabilize not more. Did I misunderstand you?

  • Brian September 28, 2017, 3:12 pm

    Funny how this round was being shot before it was so called invented, still prefer the 308 and 6.5×284……now you might have my interest for the 6mm Creed

  • Ricardo September 28, 2017, 2:27 pm

    I just looked up the ballistics of my 7mm-08. Identical. There is now extra work to be done on the brass and it quite easy to reload. Match ammo? How many long range shooters buy ammo? In my opinion, just another cartridge.

  • Jim McCoy September 28, 2017, 11:49 am

    I obtained a 6.5 froma close friend back in the 90’s. Originally i bought a mussier that had seen
    action (1940’s) turned around and bought a modern no wood and scoped it..

    I am not a shooting buff , I don’t compete etc. I just want to know is the 6.5 creedmoor basically
    the same as the mousser that I own. Can I expect the same performance??
    Thanks for any answer but keep it plain an simple i’m not off the deep end on firearms.

    j/M.

  • roger September 28, 2017, 10:54 am

    Flavor of the year,, 6.5×55mm Swedish Mauser, are a flat shooting round.

  • Wade Haas September 28, 2017, 9:36 am

    Great article as always Clay! 6.5 creedmoor is the way forward whether we like it or not. Just recently put together a rifle chambered in 6.5 creedmoor. Had to go with a howa 1500 and not a remington 700 cuz Big Green wasn’t makin any in that flavor. That’s ok cuz it shoots 1/4 moa at 100. Can’t wait to take it out further .

  • joefoam September 28, 2017, 8:44 am

    If you have money to burn get some. For the rest of us 308 will do.

  • mike September 28, 2017, 7:06 am

    7mm-08 is a great round and under appreciated in long range, that being said it cannot be compared to 6.5 in several ways. There is no “match” box ammo for it that i am aware of. And it is not fun for reloading seeing how it takes alot more work on the brass. i have shot almost all of these rounds at at least 600 if not more. the 6.5×47 lapua is great but once again, in this he was using box ammo. great write up.

    • Cap'n Tevo September 28, 2017, 8:40 pm

      B.S.!! 7-08 is very easy to manufacture. Even making it from .308 brass is one pass in the die. The 7-08 rivals the Needmoor and has more energy as well. Nothing but hype. Less powder capacity, less speed!

  • Chick September 28, 2017, 4:35 am

    7mm08 Remington.

  • Mark N. September 21, 2017, 1:03 am

    How about a comparison to another 6 mm round, the classic .243 Winchester? Although I have read that it is iffy out of a semiauto (due to length issues for the heavier rounds), it is ballistically quite similar with a 105 gr. bullet.

    • FRANK September 28, 2017, 9:58 am

      there is a long test done some years ago on 6/5 creed, 260 rem and 6.5x 47 lapaua result no big deal

  • Gary Huffman September 19, 2017, 8:20 pm

    What about the 6.5/284????

    • clay martin September 20, 2017, 1:39 pm

      valid point, it looks like a winner too. but sounds like it might be a barrel burner, only time will tell

      • Brian September 28, 2017, 3:15 pm

        all the 6.5’s are barrel burners….6.5×284 simply puts 6.5Creed to shame in power and accuracy, but it eats barrels for target shooters and wont matter for the hunter.

        • Kirby September 29, 2017, 5:32 pm

          From what I read there is very little ballistically difference between any of these three. 6.5 284 is much hotter faster and the go-to I believe for gentlemen that use 6.5 competitively. A friend of mine used 6.5 284 and I as a novice had a pleasure of shooting it a few times. As far as accuracy goes me again being a novice could hit 6 inch steel plate at 400 yards at will and I’m sure I could have done that even further out.

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