Talk me into this, 6.5 Creedmore

[Irving]

What rifle did you buy? Thinking about rebarreling my Axis to 6.5 Creedmore, and building an AR in that caliber as well. Also interested in being talked into this round.

[Great-Kazoo]

What rifle did you buy? Thinking about rebarreling my Axis to 6.5 Creedmore, and building an AR in that caliber as well. Also interested in being talked into this round.

Before you go that route, check to see if there are aftermarket stocks available. The ruger american will run $400 ish OTD.
http://northlandshooterssupply.com/b...terion-savage/

[buffalobo]

What rifle did you buy? Thinking about rebarreling my Axis to 6.5 Creedmore, and building an AR in that caliber as well. Also interested in being talked into this round.

+1 on AR in 6.5 Creedmore.

For the price of Axis, buy one. Not long til daughter will be ready to hunt.

[Hoser]

Also interested in being talked into this round.

It is a pretty solid caliber. It had pretty much all but completely sunk the 260. Factory ammo is cheaper than 308 and hunting ammo is starting to appear.

With proper bullet selection, putting a hurting on an Elk out to 300 yards or so is very doable. Something like a bonded core bullet or a solid is what I use in my 6.5-284 Elk rifle.

[Irving]

It is a pretty solid caliber. It had pretty much all but completely sunk the 260. Factory ammo is cheaper than 308 and hunting ammo is starting to appear.

With proper bullet selection, putting a hurting on an Elk out to 300 yards or so is very doable. Something like a bonded core bullet or a solid is what I use in my 6.5-284 Elk rifle.

Just as a quick mental exercise, would you consider shooting an elk at further than 300 yards with a .308?

I don't have to switch my hunting rig to 6.5 Creedmore. I can just as easily build one on an AR platform and use that gun for antelope or coyotes.

[Great-Kazoo]

Just as a quick mental exercise, would you consider shooting an elk at further than 300 yards with a .308?

I don't have to switch my hunting rig to 6.5 Creedmore. I can just as easily build one on an AR platform and use that gun for antelope or coyotes.

By the time you're done , again, you could just buy a nice bolt action and optics. The 6.5 uses a 30 cal AR lower, so you're starting from scratch.

[husky390]

Just as a quick mental exercise, would you consider shooting an elk at further than 300 yards with a .308?
.

I won?t based on a diagonal crosswind I experienced at Ben Lomond that pushed my rounds 12? off target. Didn?t happen at 300 yards or less but would at 400. My flags never picked up the wind and we were really scratching our heads until we felt the wind while checking our target. So, I keep my shots to 300 or less. As always, yours and others MMV.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk