6.5 Creedmoor: Heavy and Slow or Light and Fast

[lsuTigahs]

Heavy and slow all day (147/143 eld/eldx), that being said the 140 grain American Gunner was by far the best SD and group size I ever got from any rifle in 6.5. Insane how accurate that round was for the price.

 

[Fireflyfishing]

130s

 

[Castle Rock]

After looking at my Hornady app, the 143/147's and 130's are within 50 fps of each other after 500, but the heavies don't pass the lighters up within the expansion window. Both hit 1800 fps between around 800-850 yards depending on muzzle velocities. For me that's plenty of range for hunting - unless you're wanting more "wallop" factor or wanting to push out to 1000 yards (which I am not ready to do).

Yep, duds will be fuds or whatever
They probably need to do some calcs on the mid range trajectory and wind calls

 

[sndmn11]

Samesies

I was expecting a 156gr at 2700 vs 80gr at 3500 comparison.

 

[cuerro viejo]

agreed but not sure if you'd want to be shooting game much past 500 with a 6.5 CM. At least that's been my experience

My daughter has hammered a lot of aoudad and mule deer @ and over 500 with 130 TMK. Zero issues.

 

[rbw20]

143 eldx gets my vote. I'm warming up to the idea of shooting match bullets at animals but not there yet.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

I’ve been getting such foot accuracy with the 140 ELDM that I’m not really looking for anything else. I’ve shot a lot hammer hunters and 130/140g accubonds (I still have lots of them) but I can’t see using anything other than the 140eldm or 143eldx right now. IF I was going to switch things up, I guess I’d try the 130g TMK.

 

[coop2564]

I like 135 berger @2800. 500 is my max with 6.5cm so I like speed better.

 

[mighteywhitehunter]

If hunting less than 600 I say roll the 130s, if beyond that it is a toss up.