Weatherby weathermark 6.5/300 vs custom rifle 6.5 prc or 6.5 creedmoor

[torrey.harris.5]

What are your thoughts or opinions all welcomed


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[Apollo117]

What's the purpose of the rifle? Lightweight goat rig, elk rifle, target practice? What are you hunting?

 

[wind gypsy]

PRC or Creed. In theory you will be able to practice more with it (ammo cost, barrel life) to make up for any ballistic disadvantage by being more familiar with it. That and you're not in a situation where you might have 3300+ FPS impacts on big game with a 140 grain bullet that might come apart.

Also, 26 Nosler > 6.5/300 if you want a fire breathing 6.5.

 

[30338]

I'd buy a Barrett Fieldcraft in 6.5 creedmoor and put a good scope on it.

 

[Dusty2426]

I'd buy a Barrett Fieldcraft in 6.5 creedmoor and put a good scope on it.

I agree with this. I own a Barrett field craft in 6.5 18inch barrel. Hunted with it exclusively this year. Caribou,elk (bull and 3 cows) and 7 aoudad. Shot 140 Accubond and loved it. Ranges from 70-725yards. Zero issues

 

[ofl0926]

PRC or Creed. In theory you will be able to practice more with it (ammo cost, barrel life) to make up for any ballistic disadvantage by being more familiar with it. That and you're not in a situation where you might have 3300+ FPS impacts on big game with a 140 grain bullet that might come apart.

Also, 26 Nosler > 6.5/300 if you want a fire breathing 6.5.

I’m sorry but the 26 nosler does not compare to the 6.5-300 wby mag. I don’t know if you have seen the numbers on the 6.5-300 wby but it is faster and flatter shooting than the 26 nosler. Both are over bored cartridges and at the top of their category. But if you had to pick the better ballistic one, it’s the 6.5-300 wby. Also, you know weatherby will always support the cartridge for brass and ammo. Who can say the same about nosler.


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[wind gypsy]

I’m sorry but the 26 nosler does not compare to the 6.5-300 wby mag. I don’t know if you have seen the numbers on the 6.5-300 wby but it is faster and flatter shooting than the 26 nosler. Both are over bored cartridges and at the top of their category. But if you had to pick the better ballistic one, it’s the 6.5-300 wby. Also, you know weatherby will always support the cartridge for brass and ammo. Who can say the same about nosler.

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I apologize, I was going off of the 30 nosler and 300 weatherby case capacity being identical and extrapolated that to the 6.5s. It looks like the 26 is listed as having 93.5 grains capacity and the weatherby is listed with 98 grains. Considering 300 WM case capacity frequently varies by 8 grains depending on brass manufacturer, the difference is approaching “picking fly shit out of chili” territory for a hand loader, especially with how overbore these are.

Seems the weatherby factory ammo does quite a bit better and the longer factory throat on the weatherby helps.

 

[FURMAN]

I apologize, I was going off of the 30 nosler and 300 weatherby case capacity being identical and extrapolated that to the 6.5s. It looks like the 26 is listed as having 93.5 grains capacity and the weatherby is listed with 98 grains. Considering 300 WM case capacity frequently varies by 8 grains depending on brass manufacturer, the difference is approaching “picking fly shit out of chili” territory for a hand loader, especially with how overbore these are.

Seems the weatherby factory ammo does quite a bit better and the longer factory throat on the weatherby helps.

I have zero interest in anything that overbore but I seriously doubt the claimed discrepancy in the capacities of those two cases. The 300 Weatherby is around 99 grains the 28 Noser is about 102-103. They claim the 6.5-300 is 98. the 28 uses the exact same case as the 26 just smaller neck. I seriously doubt it lost 10 grains doing this. Maybe someone can enlighten me. Again lack of interest comes into play but I recently read one of the more well known rifle makers would not give their .5 moa accuracy guarantee with the 6.5-300 due to issues meating it. In any case the 6.5 prc is proving to be ridiculously easy to tune with 147s which are proving to be an awesome bullet on game. The creed moor would only be a contender for me if no elk were in the cards and shots were going to be under 700.

 

[wind gypsy]

I have zero interest in anything that overbore but I seriously doubt the claimed discrepancy in the capacities of those two cases. The 300 Weatherby is around 99 grains the 28 Noser is about 102-103. They claim the 6.5-300 is 98. the 28 uses the exact same case as the 26 just smaller neck. I seriously doubt it lost 10 grains doing this. Maybe someone can enlighten me. Again lack of interest comes into play but I recently read one of the more well known rifle makers would not give their .5 moa accuracy guarantee with the 6.5-300 due to issues meating it. In any case the 6.5 prc is proving to be ridiculously easy to tune with 147s which are proving to be an awesome bullet on game. The creed moor would only be a contender for me if no elk were in the cards and shots were going to be under 700.

Seems we have similar feelings about these and used similar logic comparing the two. The efficiencies of cartridges that overbore are low enough where a couple grains of capacity doesn't mean much.

If the ballistic benefits of highly overbore cartridges resulted in more hits down range we would see them used in competitive shooting.

To say the 26 Nosler does not compare to the 6.5/300 is a stretch.

 

[FURMAN]

Curiosity killed the cat. I just made a 26 Nosler from 28 brass. It is 99 grains of H20. I would guess that to be within a grain of the 6.5-300 and mostly likely higher than the 6.5-300.

 

[Dusty2426]

Seems we have similar feelings about these and used similar logic comparing the two. The efficiencies of cartridges that overbore are low enough where a couple grains of capacity doesn't mean much.

If the ballistic benefits of highly overbore cartridges resulted in more hits down range we would see them used in competitive shooting.

With modern and accurate range finders ballistics doesn’t matter as much to hunters. Energy down range is what counts. I quit worrying about speed as much as I do energy on animal even though they go together for the most part.

 

[FURMAN]

Cool.
Just weigh the case, fill to the top with water and weigh again?

Yes


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[FURMAN]

Ballistics absolutely matters because our winding reading skills are still the weak link. Better ballistics increases hit percentage no matter how little we owe the animal.


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[sneaky]

Why aren't you posting these questions in the firearms forum?

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[ofl0926]

Torrey clear your inbox


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