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re: 6.5 Creedmoor ammo for deer
Posted on 1/5/22 at 8:08 pm to Original Corn Pop
Posted on 1/5/22 at 8:08 pm to Original Corn Pop
Just like the 260 Rem 40 years before. As deer hunting goes, the CM is great but nothing new. Now that it has such a following and ammo is plentiful that is really its greatest attribute, imo.
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Posted on 1/5/22 at 8:39 pm to turkish
6.5x55 was doing it in the late 1800's. 6.5 caliber with a 1:7ish twist and 156gr bullets.
It literally duplicates one of the oldest centerfire service rifle cartridges there is, just with a way better name and way better marketing horsepower.
It literally duplicates one of the oldest centerfire service rifle cartridges there is, just with a way better name and way better marketing horsepower.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 8:44 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Hornady American Whitetail is cheap and works great.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 8:57 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
I have been shooting Hornaday 140 gr. SST (.270) forever. My Model 70 loves that round. I’ve most hunted for meat, so almost all does (exotics and Whitetail) and the occasional cow horn spike. I’ve neck shot for years, it’s either a clean miss or they drop where they are standing. I shot an 8 point last year I was thinking about mounting, so I shot him in the boiler room. When we finally found him (really through a mix of effort and luck) he had gone hundreds of yards, zero blood at point of impact or along the way. When we found him, no exit wound, but the front of his chest cavity was about to bust open with blood and his organs were like scrambled eggs. Guessing it hit a rib on the opposite side of entry and blew apart. Maybe a fluke, just not sure. The four I shot this year all got the neck shot approach.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 9:10 am to Icansee4miles
SST's are pretty violent bullets. I used to shoot them out of my .25-06 and had problems with failing to exit. Damn nasty little bastards on neck shots like you said. Hitting bones fast seems to blow them apart.
Posted on 1/6/22 at 10:17 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
That is what it appears. I know a neck shot fells them like a tree. Guess I’d better keep shooting them there, it’s almost the only bullets I have.
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