6.5 Creedmoor/260 for Deer, Elk, and whatever else.....

[UnckleBob]

I took our 3 year old hunting this morning just getting him out in the woods. We own a little 60 acre tract about 15 minutes from home and its loaded with deer, you'll see an average of 10 deer every sit usually closer to 20. He's three and loud AF, at one point this morning I laughed and said dude let me hold you, you whisper loud.

About 7:15 this spike walks out and he must have been blind and deaf. Little dude said Daddy shoot that deer and I wasnt arguing with him. I've got 2 shooter bucks in there regularly but who cares.

Anyway. 6.5 creedmoor suppressed shooting some norma whitetail soft points that were in the truck. (I left my ammo box with the ELDX at home on our kitchen island this morning. I keep ammo in the truck and it paid off.)
50 yard shot
Hit him right in the crease of the right shoulder, exit in the point of the off side shoulder. He crumpled.

Little dude was excited and so was I. Little side note here we said a prayer to Jesus and Granddaddy this morning, my dad died October 15th of this year. When we got in the truck the radio was playing "I wish grandpa's never died" and it played at the funeral, it had me crying and laughing at the same time. Anyway sorry for the long post.

Is an Eldx really needed in your situation? It looks like the cheaper Norma ammo did a good job.

 

[SC HUNTER]

Is an Eldx really needed in your situation? It looks like the cheaper Norma ammo did a good job.

Absolutely not. Its just what I sighted that particular rifle in with before the season. I know that the Normas shoot right there with the ELDX and I have a case of the Norma ammo to shoot as practice ammo.

This is the first deer I've shot with the Norma ammo out of a creedmoor and it worked perfectly fine. I'll shoot more with those normas to test them out on a few more, I was impressed. When we got home little man said "mama, daddy go pew and the deer go bop on the ground." 3 year old approved.