Longest Kill 6.5 Creedmoor

[Billy Goat]

My longest 6.5Jesus kill is a bit over 200 yards. My longest with a 260Rem is 540 yards with a 100gr NBT screaming at about 3500fps (I’d need to check my chrono notes for exact fps). Gun is a Salvage with a 28” Criterion 1 1/16“ diameter barrel. Watched the doe tip over in the scope.

Speaking of Jesus, why the 28" tube?


I couldn't get that out the window fast enough.

Speaking of Jesus, why the 28" tube?


I couldn't get that out the window fast enough.

 

[Reburn]

Speaking of Jesus, why the 28" tube?


I couldn't get that out the window fast enough.

Some guys are just used to working with longer tubes then others.

 

[Billy Goat]

Some guys are just used to working with longer tubes then others.

 

[Cant hit em]

395yds on a mule deer this year Factory loaded 140grn Eldm . Muzzle velocity notes below

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[Cant hit em]

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Is that the cover of “Trails in the sand “ by Peter Draggin


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[Billy Goat]

Is that the cover of “Trails in the sand “ by Peter Draggin


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The fork if I know. It's a funny internet meme that I have been waiting to use ever since the meme thread got canned.

 

[woods89]

This is a fascinating thread. Most of my hunting for the last few years has been with a 6.5 Creedmoor, but all my kills have been fairly close. I'm quite impressed with some of the results on here.

 

[Billy Goat]

The fork if I know. It's a funny internet meme that I have been waiting to use ever since the meme thread got canned.

Wait I get it now


I was distracted.

Supposed to be hunting.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

I’ve used .260 Remington for close to 20 years now. Basically a identical twin of 6.5 creedmore. Still use it to this day on elk, whitetail, mule deer, black tails, hogs, javelina, etc.

Longest kill was with a Hornady 129 Grain SST on a small coastal blacktail buck in California in 2018. He was hit in his right lung at just over 1,100 yards. He ran about 50 or so yards into the trees. Found him dead right where he went into the woods about an hour after I shot him.

This old bruiser California hybrid black tail mule deer was also killed with my first .260 rifle up at 9,500 feet in the Sierras in 2003. A 180 yard shot on this one.

 

[Billy Goat]

I'm a fan of the .260 as well. I have had one for 20 years now


It's hard to deny that the 6.5 majic bean was built around the heavy bullets and is optimal for the heavy stuff.


There cartridge really is a good round, it's just a lot of the shooters that are the problem.

 

[B_Reynolds_AK]

518 yards on a Dall Sheep. Pass through on both shoulders. Factory Barnes 127 LRX from a 21” Fieldcraft @ 2790 FPS.

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[General RE LEE]

518 yards on a Dall Sheep. Pass through on both shoulders. Factory Barnes 127 LRX from a 21” Fieldcraft @ 2790 FPS.

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Nice shot. What’s the minimum expansion velocity of the LRX? 1800 FPS?

 

[B_Reynolds_AK]

Nice shot. What’s the minimum expansion velocity of the LRX? 1800 FPS?

I believe so, which with my gun, would be just under 600 yards. I wouldn’t shoot a Mountain Goat that far out, but under ideal circumstances, a sheep would tip over just fine.


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[huntnful]

425 & 450 yards on big mule deer. 147 ELD-M. Two shots a piece.

BUT i'd bet if people really wanted to come forward, this thread would be 5X as long if it was titled "Long range experiences with 6.5 Creedmoor. The good and the bad."

I'LL GO FIRST
170" mule deer. 525 yards. Slight quartering away. Put it a few ribs back. Buck hunched up and went over a knoll. I went over there 30 minutes later, buck jumped up and trotted out of life without me being able to get a second bullet in him. More than likely died somewhere. No exit, no blood trail. I learned my lesson. The next year I took the EXACT same shot on a bigger bodied buck with my 28 Nosler and he never took a step.

Careful only seeking information to attempt to validate only what you want to hear. There's enough people shooting them, that there are going to be long range success stories.

 

[CorbLand]

408 yards on a slightly, very slightly quartering away cow elk. Punched it right through her lungs and the bullet disappeared into the mountain behind her. She ran 40-50 yards and was dead.

 

[plentycoupe]

All shot with an 143 ELD-X at 2564fps.
365 coyote
143 blacktail buck
304 whitetail buck
480 mule deer buck
511 pronghorn
618 whitetail doe
550 bear(did not find) the country was thicker than I thought. I’m sure I walked by him more than once yet didn’t see him.

 

[Bravo 4]

I want to get some real world experiences from others on the 6.5 Creedmoor as a long range hunting caliber. My ballistic table shows I’ve got enough power to ethically kill a whitetail out to 725 yards.

What are some long range kills you folks have had with the 6.5 Creedmoor?

Question for conversation purposes;
What’s are the parameters for you basing the “enough power to ethically kill a whitetail” off of? Ft-lbs of energy, impact velocity, etc?

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

I just killed 3 big bodied whitetail in northern Minnesota the last two days. All 230+ lb deer including a 275 lb mature buck.

.260 Rem 129 Grain SSTs. Semi custom T3X.

265 yards
325 yards
665 yards

My wife also killed a heavy bodied doe at 445 yards with the same rifle last night.

Only 1 of the 4 made it back to the woods. The rest were either bang flop or ran less than 15 yards. Deer that made it back to was woods was tracked and found less than 50 yards into the woods. I glanced the lung and hit a rib and it ricocheted out through the spine. He was dead when I found him about 20 min after the shot.

 

[Bad habit]

I want to get some real world experiences from others on the 6.5 Creedmoor as a long range hunting caliber. My ballistic table shows I’ve got enough power to ethically kill a whitetail out to 725 yards.

What are some long range kills you folks have had with the 6.5 Creedmoor?

That would really be stretching it for the 6.5. A great cartridge especially with hammer bullets. the longest I’ve seen with the 6.5 was 525 yds on a big muley.

 

[260madman]

Speaking of Jesus, why the 28" tube?


I couldn't get that out the window fast enough.

That’s my heavy shoot tiny groups gun. I do use every gun I have for killing so it comes out to play occasionally. Barrel weighs 8# by itself I believe. Zero recoil and not hard on the ears.