Are You Getting Bad Blood Trails with the 6.5 Creedmoor? This Is Why

[260madman]

not sure how I came across this article but there’s so much wrong info in it, of course it is Outdoor Life LOL! Shot placement is a thing and a high single lung hit results in long track jobs because of little to no blood. Look at the pic of Dahlke’s buck and the entrance hole on the “shoulder”. Stepping up in caliber size won’t help this. Shoot an animal in the upper half results in bad blood trails because of physics. Shoot them in the bottom half to 1/3 and it’s more than likely a blood trail.

Experts LOL!

Experts

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

So much terrible information that gets passed as “expert fact” on shooting and hunting sites, this one included.

 

[woods89]

Mine works great, and I don't usually have to blood trail!
Shot placement and bullet selection.......

 

[5MilesBack]

Look at the pic of Dahlke’s buck and the entrance hole on the “shoulder”. Stepping up in caliber size won’t help this.

Unless the bigger caliber provides more "shock" to the spinal cord that drops many animals in their tracks.

 

[Backpack Hunter]

The article recommended proper bullet selection, and shot placement. Didn't seem particularly revolutionary or outlandish to me.

Esse quam videri

 

[Desk Jockey]

Interesting read for some, I guess.

I am less of a rifle hunter. Have shot five deer with my creed and the furthest one has gone has been a single lung shot that Made it 50 yards With a nice blood trail. Two made 10-15 yard and two dropped in place. All with copper monos That probably aren’t the heaviest or best performing bullets.

it’s softer shooting than a 308 and seems to do a fine job IMO.

 

[762 ULTRAMAGA]

not sure how I came across this article but there’s so much wrong info in it, of course it is Outdoor Life LOL! Shot placement is a thing and a high single lung hit results in long track jobs because of little to no blood. Look at the pic of Dahlke’s buck and the entrance hole on the “shoulder”. Stepping up in caliber size won’t help this. Shoot an animal in the upper half results in bad blood trails because of physics. Shoot them in the bottom half to 1/3 and it’s more than likely a blood trail.

Experts LOL!

Experts

I read the article and I'm not sure what your issue with it is, are you an easily offended 6.5 guy??
They acknowledged all the variables that lead to quick kills and good vs poor blood trails.
Most importantly they accurately described what happens when you shoot an animal in the shoulder with an explosive small caliber bullet (143 eldx and 142 ablr).
I've been hunting with a 6.5 for 5 years and taken a lot of animals with it, there is definitely some truth to the arguments being made for larger calibers like an 06 knocking game down quicker, and a bigger hole will allow more fluids to escape than a smaller hole with equalshot placement, its physics..
Personally I've seen more shit go sideways with 243s than anything else..

This season I shot a bull at 300 yards at a very steep downward angle, I was on a cliff above and shot down into rear lungs quartering away. The 220 grain Berger passed through the top of one lung and penetrated all the way to the chest and lodged under the skin.
He tore into the brush and timber like only an elk can do, I searched around and surprisingly found a decent blood trail that turned into a 50' blood luge where he went down and skidded through the brush on a steep slope.
That one lung was shredded from the large diameter expanded bullet.
Now please make your case that a 140 class 6.5 creed woulda inflicted the same level of damage, penetration, and blood letting as a 220 grain mushroom.

 

[5MilesBack]

Now please make your case that a 140 class 6.5 creed woulda inflicted the same level of damage, penetration, and blood letting as a 220 grain mushroom.

Wait a second.......you got a Berger bullet to "mushroom"?

 

[762 ULTRAMAGA]

Wait a second.......you got a Berger bullet to "mushroom"?

Yes sir
Here it is after passing through the front of the scapula

 

[5MilesBack]

How much does it weigh now? Just wondering what the retention was.

 

[BBob]

Why the Fack do they have to call out a specific cartridge for that? I mean the article might have good points but it could apply to many cartridges. F ing media has to splash a catchy headline to write basic crap. Ridiculous.

 

[Mike Islander]

Can happen with many different cartridges/bullets. 165 Cor-Lokt upper 1/3 on 165 pound buck = no blood. Blew off the top of his heart. Bullet stopped under the skin near the opposite shoulder. He ran 50 yards into thick brush. No shoulder shots with soft bullets for me.



BTW, that was a 30.06. The two deer I shot a couple weeks ago were both 6.5 CM ELD-X. Lower 1/3 shots. Both were pass-throughs with plenty of blood.

 

[woods89]

Why the Fack do they have to call out a specific cartridge for that? I mean the article might have good points but it could apply to many cartridges. F ing media has to splash a catchy headline to write basic crap. Ridiculous.

Because the whole 6.5 Creedmoor good/bad sells, for some reason.

As far as having entry and exit, between Bergers and TMK I haven't had one not exit in a long time. In the thread on bullets for cow elk there's a pic of an elk shot front to back, through the femur, with an exit, using a 130 TMK.

 

[*zap*]

The whitetail I have shot with mine (140gr corelok) have not gone far enough to worry about tracking.

 

[FLATHEAD]

I've always favored that spot just below the spine, taking out the back side of the scapula.
Blood trail not needed. DRT.

 

[kswhitetail]

139 Scenar at 300. DRT. 2" exit behind front right shoulder. Had to get to work so this was the only pic I took

 

[kswhitetail]

 

[EastMT]

Except goats. Aim high shoulder on them in any caliber.

Also a solid heavy duty bullet that will for sure exit has a better chance of a decent trail.

 

[MattiG]

Why the Fack do they have to call out a specific cartridge for that? I mean the article might have good points but it could apply to many cartridges. F ing media has to splash a catchy headline to write basic crap. Ridiculous.

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[EastMT]

Why the Fack do they have to call out a specific cartridge for that? I mean the article might have good points but it could apply to many cartridges. F ing media has to splash a catchy headline to write basic crap. Ridiculous.

It’s like when anyone (Especially Ron Spomer) posts 6.5 vs 308, 308 vs 30-06, 270 vs 30-06, all clickbait anymore. Just driving traffic for more money.