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

[Aginor]

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[omicron1792]

interested in TMK for 6.5cm, but I don't reload. Is there a factory or even a custom ammo distributor you all recommend?

Just came out with load of 153tmk today. Available in August.

 

[AKmatt]

Didn’t even realize it was 6/5 day when I pulled the trigger.

6.5cm 130tmk strikes again on a black bear. 126 yards right around 2700fps impact velocity. Pencil entry, with a golf ball size exit. Hit high lungs. Inside was a bloody soupy mess. Bear went maybe 60 yards. What I find interesting is that I didn’t find any piece of the jacket or fragments.

 

[packgoatguy]

Yesterday evening, 6.5CM 2600fps MV, 140eldm, 175 yards. Bear was quartered away, so he aimed for the offside shoulder. Took out lungs and exited through (and broke) offside shoulder. Bear only went 20 yards. 5ft 5" square. This was his 4th bear at 16yrs old... I can hardly keep up with him anymore lol. He went up by himself, so had to self film the shot. When I watched the footage in slo mo, it looked like the bear had been hit by a sledgehammer... I just don't get how guys can say that a 6.5 isn't enough for bears...

 

[jesco88]

666y, 2,070’ish FPS impact, 130gr Berger OTM Hybrid AR, did not leave his bed-
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801y, 1,850fps impact, 130gr Berger OTM, traveled 70’ish yards-
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606y, 130gr Berger hybrid, 1,850fps impact, traveled around 60 yards maybe-
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676y, 130gr Terminal Ascent, 1,970fps impact, traveled 130’ish yards-
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328y, 130gr TMK, 40’ish yards traveled-
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373y, 143gr ELD-X, less than 10 yards traveled-
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373 or 378y can’t remember exactly, 130gr TMK, 70-80 yards travel-
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I can post more later.

That'll never work. Need more frontal diameter, bullet weight, and energy for the added "oomph" on impact.
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[jesco88]

2 whitetail last season. 1 doe and 1 buttoned buck. Shot the buttoned buck high shoulder at 165yards with a 123gr SST from a launch velocity around 2400fps out of a 16" barreled 6.5 Grendel that a friend of mine gave me for a early Christmas present. He was DRT, hit the ground so fast that I didn't even see him after the shot. (that's partly on me... I am so used to ARs being chambered in 223/556 with cans on them).

Then shot a doe at 50yards off hand while I was on the way to find the 1st one I shot, hit her in the lungs. She ran maybe 20 yards.

Just a few days before this, I shot a 150gr SST from a 308win at about 2800fps @ 95yards at another buttoned buck, and he ran 80yards into a heavily wooded area with basically no blood trail and not enough snow on the ground... made tracking him pretty difficult. There was less damage with the 308, maybe about a 1" hole through the chest. (pic with my finger pointing at it).

The Grendel was about a 2-3" cavity going through the chest (two pics inside chest cavity). Very impressive for a little pip-squeek of a 6.5.

 

[Kornman1]

Shooting a 6.5prc is there any reservations about shooting 130tmks over 3000FPS? If a close shot on a elk presents itself would the bullet be to frangible and lack penetration say at 50 yards?

This is an elk i shot off hand at about 60 yards with the 143 ELD-X from my 6.5PRC. Im getting a muzzle velocity of 2980FPS so it should be easy to get the 130s faster than that. 2 shots, one exit(blood in the picture) and one caught of the of side hide. Time to incapacitation was less then 15 seconds although he traveled about 75 yards, 20 of that being a downhill slide on the snow. No autopsy pics but bullet performance was good considering impact velocity. Since then i have stuck with the 143s but maybe switching to the 130s could cut some recoil

 

[Formidilosus]

Shooting a 6.5prc is there any reservations about shooting 130tmks over 3000FPS? If a close shot on a elk presents itself would the bullet be to frangible and lack penetration say at 50 yards?

No, and no.

 

[S-3 ranch]

Shooting a 6.5prc is there any reservations about shooting 130tmks over 3000FPS? If a close shot on a elk presents itself would the bullet be to frangible and lack penetration say at 50 yards?

This is an elk i shot off hand at about 60 yards with the 143 ELD-X from my 6.5PRC. Im getting a muzzle velocity of 2980FPS so it should be easy to get the 130s faster than that. 2 shots, one exit(blood in the picture) and one caught of the of side hide. Time to incapacitation was less then 15 seconds although he traveled about 75 yards, 20 of that being a downhill slide on the snow. No autopsy pics but bullet performance was good considering impact velocity. Since then i have stuck with the 143s but maybe switching to the 130s could cut some recoil View attachment 1081461

I don’t think there’s much difference between the two as far as recoil is concerned, I like a higher sectional density of 140+ grain bullets
I’m shooting 127gr barns and at the table i dont notice any difference between them or 140gr TGK

 

[Kornman1]

Thanks Form

Here's another one. 6.5PRC 143GR ELD-X MV 2980. Shot distance 405 yards, impact velocity ~2512. One shot and he soaked it up. took 5-6 steps and then fell and rolled down the hill. From time of impact to when he was rolling was under 7 seconds. entrance through the scapula, sheared the top of the heart and got some pieces into both lungs. bullet caught on offside hide.

 

[Castle Rock]

Shooting a 6.5prc is there any reservations about shooting 130tmks over 3000FPS? If a close shot on a elk presents itself would the bullet be to frangible and lack penetration say at 50 yards?

This is an elk i shot off hand at about 60 yards with the 143 ELD-X from my 6.5PRC. Im getting a muzzle velocity of 2980FPS so it should be easy to get the 130s faster than that. 2 shots, one exit(blood in the picture) and one caught of the of side hide. Time to incapacitation was less then 15 seconds although he traveled about 75 yards, 20 of that being a downhill slide on the snow. No autopsy pics but bullet performance was good considering impact velocity. Since then i have stuck with the 143s but maybe switching to the 130s could cut some recoil View attachment 1081461

That’s where I was at before I sold mine, the recoil was noticeably lighter than the 147 load I was previously using

 

[Kornman1]

That’s where I was at before I sold mine, the recoil was noticeably lighter than the 147 load I was previously using

Thats good to hear, right now i can shoot 147s at 2980 MV and it shoots well and gives more recoil than i can control to spot my own hits reliably but after reading this entire thread i would be fine with dropping the "energy" factor and just keeping 130s or 143s at 2850 to 2900. My other rifle (sig cross in 6.5CM) weighs more than my 6.5PRC and only gets 2725 with a hot load of h4350 under the 130tgks that didnt group good so i was wanting to keep using the PRC for now while hunting

 

[Castle Rock]

Sounds like a good plan to me.
I would go to a faster powder like 4350 and aim for 2950 - 3000 FPS.