6.5 Creedmoor for 1000 yards

How many here have walked this round out to 1000 and played around at that distance for a while now? Just taking notes.

fireman runs one right now. It is more than capable by far.

Been to 1430 yards with it.1k is an every day thing for a 6.5 Creedmoor and .260 Rem

Of late the best target shots I've made with the 6.5 Creedmoor is my 7" square plate at 700 yards. Judd was watching it. He say "Dude! That's bada$$!" Chad was helping me spot another day. I managed it again, and in Chad's special way he say "that a baby, get some!"

It's consistent, and the recoil is very mild. It may very well be my most favorite short action cartridge I've ever owned.

Exactly what I wanted to hear. I'm thinking it's gonna be one of two choices. Buy a Savage LRH or ruin a completely good 700 in 270 to make a Remage with a sendero stock and heavy barrel. I was going to go with the 6.5X284 but the price of all the ammo components will kill my wallet. I can buy factory CM rounds for a while till I build up brass supply. Plus I just wanted to know it was plenty capable, not that I am yet. Lol

1k is a walk in the park with a creed. No need to walk it out. I just dial 22.7 MOA in the scope and let her fly. Boom..... Ping

WRONG! 8.6 Mils

Either way the wind read is much more difficult than the elevation.

6.5 Creedmoor built on savage action here as well. Im not near as good as most of these guys on here and got a 2nd round hit at 1000 yds with a good caller after I first got the gun built. Thats with a shorter barrel than most are shooting as well. Its a great round.

Without a doubt! That's where an education and a whole lot of practice come in.

BullFrog take a look at this one. I've shot one in 22-250 and I've got one in 243. They just flat out shoot and will do so with just about anything you feed it. I'm working on a 105 grain Amax load in mine to take Fireman's class with. Got a PST FFP MRAD headed my way to sit on top.

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/mobile/product/70994/savage_10_pred_hntr_65_creed_max1

Fireman I am in the process of getting rid of my MOA scopes and converting over to mils. Just picked up a premier 5-25x56 gen2xr. It will ride my 6 creedmoor I am planning on running a few matches with.

Scotty let me know if I can take some of the MOA scopes off your hands, let me know what you have.

Dont do it!!!

700 here.

1000 is to much of a hike up the mountain

Why does Tikka not make a T3 in 6.5 Creedmoor? Or do they and I'm just missing it?

I know Mil is based on 1-10 but I'm used to MOA.

SPG I'll let you know. Got a few nightforces and a vortex that will be swapped out.

why not just buy the Savage n the creed?I did not buy this with the expectations of 1000 yr gun, hell these 74yr old eyes can't even see that far. but it shoots good enough for me, and I haven't found the sweet load yet

P-07, Beretta/SAKO/Tikka et al has only made 260's for the last couple years & in small limited quatities, but have made 6.5x55's forever. I suspect that B/S/T waited the 7 years or whatever to make 260's because of the Royalty aka Trademark Fees to drop off or be reduced....but then Remmy is NOT Noted for being the brightest marketing bulb in the box. We'll see if Hornady has been taking lessons from Remmy's marketing failures and make Licensing the mfg of CM stuff cheap enough aka desirable enough to entice other Mfg'ers to get on board the CM's and NOT 260's for a mid size VT/Target/Hunting caliber 'tween 243's & 270's to replace the no new growth aka dieing on the vine 25'06 bidnizz.

To see what a new caliber is going to be projected do Sales wise, watch the bullet mfg'ers new product intro's...or the discontinued's list. IMO the three 6.5's are the new 243 One Gun Do All for everything that Warren Page used to write about...GTG from Prairie Dogs to Elk, from GasGun platforms to 1000+ yard steel shooters in 6.5Swede, 6.5CM & 260Rem.

Right now Hornady prolly still owns 100% of the Royalty's on the CM's Original Patent's and want as much as possible in Fee's for a Mfg'er to make either brass and Rifles...and the jury for the Great Unwashed Everyday Hunter is still out on which one 'tween 260 & 6.5CM will become the dominent product.

Shades of the RSAUM x's WSM sales wars....that Winnie won....'cause they ain't room enough usually for 2 of these minor market impact products.

I'm already hearing that Hornady's dropping the RCM's ammo & brass...like Ruger has/or will soon for guns - look at CDNN closeout list for confirmation....and nobody's building any new WSSM's guns, ammo or brass either...same song all over again.

As an old Sales Manager of mine in the food bidnizz told me one time..."Volume trumps all Evils aka the shortcomings of a product".
Ron

I'm with Colt45, I may not ever take a 1000 yard shot but I wanted to see if it could for future reference. I like the amount of energy this round has at any range too for hunting purposes and if I want to stretch my legs one day at Firemans range, I'll have what I need. I HATE that I didn't have enough confidence in my current set up to go out and play with y'all this year. Hopefully I'll be ready for next time. I'll have a grand to play with out of our refund and I think this is where I'd like to spend it. A heavy barreled 6.5 creedmoor. Doesn't that just sound sexy?

Why yes, yes it does! See exhibit A...

Just picked this up a week ago for a grand...Minus the optics of course.

Nice! Exactly which model is that one sir? That's what I want

I'm making it over to team savage slowly but surely. It don't win any beauty contests but they sure put the bullet where ya want it to!

Here is a heavy barreled 6.5 creed on the left

Model 12 Long Range Precision (LRP).

Haven't got to shoot it yet. Just got the scope and got it mounted this weekend. Bipod will be here today...
Hope to get to the range for initial sight in and trigger time this weekend.

Exact gun I'm looking for. I bet I have to pay taxes on a new one dern it. Someone sell me theirs! Lol

You missed this on in the classifieds then, lucky for me... I picked it up NIB from a member here. I had been looking for quite a while when I stumbled on this one...

It won't be till the end of this week, maybe next week anyway. Oh well. Everything happens for a reason. Let's see a range report when you get yours out! I predict one jagged hole pics is what we'll see

somebody's gearing up for Jason's next shoot

Check out the model 10 Predator Max 1 as well, tends to get great reviews and is less $. 24" fluted medium-weight barrel, Accustock, Accutrigger.

I would avoid Accustocked rifles unless you are planning on leaving the factory stock on it. I havent checked in the last 18 months or so but last year when I built my rifle the stock options were limited to none for accustock rifles.

Ok I'm confused now. I thought an accu stock was just the stock. If a savage has this stock, is the action different in any way?

I have no idea what he's talking about. I got an Accustock Savage the year they came out then had a McMillan A-5 built for it months later. That may have been five years ago. 4.40" screw spacing is all you need to tell them.

And yes the actions are the same.

screw spacing can vary on Savage actions, always measure...

Just telling you what I was told when I called Stocky's stocks looking for a manners T5A..... Couldnt tell you anything else about it as I bought a bare bones action for the build instead of the Accustocked rifle I originally was going to use. Havent thought anything about it since.

EDIT: Just called Savage to verify and like is said above the actions are the exact same so forget what I was told. I cant get it to let me edit the post above.