Ruger American Predator 6mm Creed... Wow!

[3-0-hate]

I was talked into buying a Ruger American Predator in 6mm Creed by my local gun store purveyer. He sold the rifle to me at his cost, so I couldn't really resist. I grabbed some Hornady Match ammo off his shelf and brought the rifle home.

After a thorough cleaning of the bore, I tossed a Bushnell LRS 6-24x50 I had laying around on it and took it out to the desert. After getting on paper, I put some rounds through it to foul the clean, new barrel and then shot for a group.

Holy crap this thing can shoot, right out of the box, still in it's crap-plastic stock and untouched trigger. I'm a bit impressed if you can't tell.

I was shooting off a backpack for the front support rest and my hand under the rear of the butt. Not the best support for shooting precision, and it still put a very impressive (for l, in my case anyways, a sub-$400 rifle) group together. Less than half MOA. I'll take it!

I was only loading 3 rounds in the mag at a time, so only a 3 shot group, but it still tells enough about it's ability IMO. I can't wait to put this thing in an ICD chassis.

 

[Ledzep]

You'll find examples often enough that have trouble getting much below 3/4-1 MOA, but a good chunk of them are easy Sub-MOA shooters... And the aftermarket is growing rapidly. I can definitely see them being the "new M700" in terms of budget builds. Hard to beat for the money. I had a .300 BO that threw subsonic loads 3/4 MOA at 100yd.

Toss it in a new stock/chassis and screw in a nice prefit barrel (if it doesn't shoot great out of the box) and it's about guaranteed to hammer for ~$1000-1200.

 

[rd_kng]

Then you'll have a Ruger Precision. Just a thought.

 

[Ledzep]

I think you've got better odds of a PVA prefit shooting tight vs. a RPR factory pipe, but yeah not far off.

On a personal level, I prefer most traditional stocks to most chassis, especially the RPR. Doesn't do it for me but YMMV there.

 

[3-0-hate]

I think you've got better odds of a PVA prefit shooting tight vs. a RPR factory pipe, but yeah not far off.

On a personal level, I prefer most traditional stocks to most chassis, especially the RPR. Doesn't do it for me but YMMV there.

Yeah, the one downside is the short barrel. But since this thing already drives tacks, I'll just burn this one up and rebarrel it when needed.

I was looking at the Indian Creek chassis for a couple of reasons. The fact that it allows for an AICS setup without any extra work, AR15 furniture, which is easily swapped on or off to achieve the perfect ergos for the shooter, and the fact that it is made in the next town over from me. I love supporting local.

I also was planning on cerakoting the chassis Robin's egg Blue (tiffany blue) to match my girls Glock 19 she just bought and letting her shoot matches with it.

 

[MarkCO]

I have one in .243Win. Put it in a Boyds AT-One. Pretty impressive light rig that outshot my RPRs in the same caliber for half the price tag.

 

[texastonk]

I have one in a 6 creed as well. mine groups about the same with factory as yours. just got all of my loading components in and am in the work up process. Trying out the 105 and 115 bergers. I just got my AT-One in the mail yesterday. Plan to bed it this weekend. very exciting considering I have less than $550 in the gun and stock!

 

[jpspeeddemon]

I have a RAP in 6.5 creedmoor and it shoots sub 0.75 moa and I've shot several 4 shot (mag hold 4 rounds) 0.3-0.5 moa groups. I did a lot of research on multiple forums before purchasing the RAP and found that the vast majority of owners report similar accuracy even with the plastic oem stock. Not bad at all.