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

[ScreamingPotato]

I guess I can add a data point. Shot roughly 80 yards with factory 147 ELD-M from 6.5 CM, muzzle velocity averages 2544 out of the 18" barrel. Bullet center punched a dime sized hole through the middle of the lungs and exited with a half dollar sized hole in the off side skin. Lungs looked badly bruised and there was tons of bloodshot jelly between the shoulder blade fascia even though there was no direct bullet damage in the area and shot was fairly far back from the shoulders. She spun and got about 30-35 yards before she fell.

 

[rackcity24]

6.5 creed shooting factory 143 eld-x at 2608 fps. 255 yard shot, and didn't move from his bed.

Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

 

[General RE LEE]

6.5 creed shooting factory 143 eld-x at 2608 fps. 255 yard shot, and didn't move from his bed.

Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

Nice buck and great shot!

 

[BKM]

I guess I can add a data point. Shot roughly 80 yards with factory 147 ELD-M from 6.5 CM, muzzle velocity averages 2544 out of the 18" barrel. Bullet center punched a dime sized hole through the middle of the lungs and exited with a half dollar sized hole in the off side skin. Lungs looked badly bruised and there was tons of bloodshot jelly between the shoulder blade fascia even though there was no direct bullet damage in the area and shot was fairly far back from the shoulders. She spun and got about 30-35 yards before she fell.

So you didn’t much damage from the bullet fragmenting? Just the dime sized hole through the lungs?

 

[ScreamingPotato]

So you didn’t much damage from the bullet fragmenting? Just the dime sized hole through the lungs?

Correct, as far as I could tell. I was initially disappointed looking at just a hole through the lungs but the jelly between both shoulder blades was pretty extreme and the lungs looked to have been bruised extensively so there was clearly some shock that happened internally. I never found any fragments or pieces anywhere.