120 Grain Nosler BT 6.5 Creedmoor Range Day

[General RE LEE]

I was gifted a box of 6.5 mm 120 grain Nosler Ballistic Tips. I decided to load them up for my 20” barrel 6.5 Creedmoor Tikka CTR. They performed well and is a light kicker. Spotting shots was easy. I’m at 1000 lbs KE out to 525 and 1800 FPS out to 600 yards.

Will make a great whitetail bullet shooting suppressed.

Tikka 6.5 Creedmoor CTR 20” barrel
Nosler 120 grain BT
48.5 grains Superformance Powder
Lapua Brass
CCI BR-2 primers
2.268 CBTO (twenty thou off lands)
Avg. 2963 FPS (10 Shots)
SD 5 (10 shots)
ES 17 (10 shots)

I was fighting a bit of mirage off the barrel cause of heat and time crunch.

 

[TNKnoxville]

What crono is that?????

 

[Darryle]

What crono is that?????

Magnetospeed

 

[TNKnoxville]

Thanks

 

[Kimber7man]

Those 120 BT's are deadly deer killers....

 

[OverInfinite]

Is the expansion on a BT similar to a ELD-X at high velocity?
I was wondering what the terminal performance is like of a 140gr BT compared to a 142 Accubond LR?
mostly because I cant seem to get a Accubond LR to group well in most of my rifles.