greenghost
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- May 20, 2025
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Here is my situation. I am going back and forth on whether I should go with the 6.5 Creedmoor or a .270 Win. Yesterday I thought I had made up my mind and was going with the .270, today I am back on the 6.5 Creedmoor train. I already have a 30-06 as my do-it-all rifle. If I were to hunt anything bigger than a Mule Deer I would most likely use the 30-06 anyway. My ideal future hunt will be western hunting antelope and bighorn sheep. I know that tags are hard to get, and I have a lot of time before I even go on this hunt. However, I live in the Midwest and hunt Whitetail already and would be interested in hunting coyotes as well. So if I am hunting Whitetail, Antelope, Bighorn sheep, and Coyote the 6.5 would be the ideal gun for those longer shots (I do have a 30-30 for Whitetail under 100). The advice I have been given by people in my life and forums has been all over the place, so it feels there isn’t a wrong answer. I also have very little experience shooting long range. Most of my hunts have been with iron sites, so I would need to practice shooting at distance, so the less recoil of the 6.5 makes sense as well. What I am hoping someone can do is solidify my choice of choosing the 6.5 over the .270, or how I should go with the .270, and here is why.