Hunting & Fishing AZ hunting with a 6.5 creed

[rhildy77]

I have a question an I need your guys help. I just built a 6.5 creed and plan on using for coues deer hunting. I know bullet selection along with bullet placement is the key to all answers, but do you think it is sufficient enough for a 900 or 1000 yard kill shot. Where I hunt its not uncommon for me to kill at that distance as the previous two season have tagge out at 730 and 650 yards with a 300 win.

 

[nexusfire]

Why do you want to change?

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[hognuts]

I have kills with mine at 500, 525, and 650 yards. (140 grain AMAX) The 650 yard shot was on an elk and it did the job, however, shot placement was key, the first round went in behind the shoulder and went through and through, making the liver into jelly. He didn't drop immediately, he took a few steps and I sent another one that hit directly in the front shoulder (He was quartering towards me) He dropped and I thought nothing of it until we skinned it out and I recovered the bullet in the front shoulder and it had only penetrated a few inches into the denser muscle tissue in the shoulder.





I am in the process of putting together a 6.5 SAUM to add a little "zip" to the same little pills! Looking forward to see what they will do!
Remmington 700 LA (so I can load them as long as I want to and have the option of switching to 7 SAUM later if this proves to be a barrel burner, and still load'em long)
McRee Chassis
Rock 28" varmint contour barrel
JP recoil eliminator brake
Jewel Trigger
I am waiting on the reamer to come in and the dies. Ordered a 100 rounds of prepped brass from Copper Creek today, sent them my reamer specs and they are going to turn necks to my chamber specs. I am looking forward to playing with this thing, going to take it with me to Wyoming this fall and hopefully put it to work!

 

[long range newbie]

hey I was going with the 6.5 cm but decided with the 260 rem. So whats your opinion on the chassis vs a normal stock? I'm wondering to go with some sort of chassis or a manners t4

 

[hognuts]

Depends on what you are comfortable with, I like my chassis, but it is kind of heavy. I usually take a "brush gun" and use my "match gun" for sitting in a high spot and glassing looking for a mid to long range opportunity and use the brush gun for packing while walking in thick brush/timber. My match gun with MTU contour barrel and scope weighs about 16.5 lbs...kind of an un-wieldy bastard for any kind of off hand stuff...we do it in matches, but only because we have to! When I have the choice I take the "golf bag" and reach for the putter when the situation calls for it...killed my deer last year with a lever action 30/30 with open sights, but I had the 6.5 in camp and we killed two deer with it...right from camp!

I think if I were you I would try to get behind as many different rifles/stocks/chassis as you can before you make a selection. I have tried Bell and Carlson, AI 2.0, and McRee. I liked the AI and the McRee, they both are very adjustable and comfortable to shoot. The Bell and Carlson was not bad for the money. I didn't like that I had to remove the cheek riser every time I cleaned the rifle.

One thing with the McRee is it gets cold as a son of a bitch in cold weather. At first I didn't think I liked the cheek pad that they offered, after using it for a coyote hunt in South Dakota in January, I learned to like it! I thought my face was going to freeze to that bitch! Good luck on the build and enjoy!

(FWIW I am in the process of doing another build and I ordered another McRee)

 

[coWSMasher]

Short answer no. Not ethically. i know coues are a bit smaller but for white tail I wont take a shot past where the round has 1300 ft/lbs. for coues i wouldn't go below 1100. Which would put you at about 600.

 

[Tackleberry]

My buddies wore the whitetails out this year with 140 factory amax's. between 2 of them they dropped like 15 deer, most in their tracks. The ones that didn't fall took only a few steps. Look under "bolt action rifles" section at the gap extreme hunter. Pat Sinclair has way too many pics of critters dropped with 130vld's out of a 6.5 saum. A little faster than a creedmoor but same bullets

 

[rhildy77]

Why do you want to change?

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No reason really just decided to build one and thought I would give it a try.