12-17-2018, 04:45 AM
Steve Hornady and his pals have been busy developing performance ammunition to go with their new production rifles. The 28 Nosler, 30 Nosler and 33 Nosler are head and shoulders above similar caliber rounds and Hornady's Gucci round for the past couple of years has been the 6.5 Creedmore.
A 26 caliber cartridge, it is very similar to the .260 Remington in performance closer to the .280 Rem It is based on the 7.62 NATO / .308 Winchester cartridge and so can be chambered in the short action and is necked from 30 cal to 26 caliber also said to outperform the parent .308 Winchester.
In a recent article Craig Boddington lamented he has to date not owned nor has he shot any game with the Creedmore despite his wife and daughter both having harvested game with it. That might have been amended by now.
Toward the end of October I retired after 37 years of service to the Government. I received a nice letter of thanks from the Premiere and a bunch of banked overtime that I had to cash in. A wise man would have put it all into RRSPs
I wanted to buy myself a nice retirement memento. After consulting with my friends decided on a 6.5 Creedmore and on the suggestion of my friend Mark McGee ordered a Remington 700 Hunter with the Magpul stock. It took a few days to arrive at my LGS which actually worked to my benefit. My coworkers all chipped in and gave me a gift certificate to the self same LGS and as luck would have it Cabella's put this model on sale and the shop graciously matched the sale price... I basically got it for half price.
After getting it home it cried out for a scope which would balance the anticipated performance. I had a Leupould 3X9 and a 2X7 both Vari-X II's as spares. Not good enough. So ... I robbed the Leupould 30 mm Vari-X III 4.5-14 from my Sako A7 in .308 Win and put the 2X7 on it. The A7 balances as a featherweight with the change.
Next off to the range.
I could not bore sight the 6.5 due to the height of the scope causing it to sight over top of the calumniator so I started the process at 25 yards which is the approximate distance the bullet first crosses the line of sight. After some adjustment and a cleaning of the bore I moved the target to one hundred meters and settled on a 3/4 inch group of five rounds 2 1/2 inches above point of aim and only had 3 rounds left. I checked a target left by a previous shooter at 200 meters which appeared untouched and the two metal gongs of different sizes and the first round smacked the larger gong, second round smacked the smaller gong and the third printed 3/4 inch below point of aim.
As Ron always said Nuff ...in this case good'nuff.
I like sighting in my rifles, my friend Richard Buck said I am anal about it. I record every shot , every adjustment, weather wind, if I am shooting alone or with a spotter and actually prefer to be alone. I find I do better work with no distractions.
I took the Sako out another day and sighted it in 1 1/2 inches high at 100 and my little finger nail could cover it
I was not able to get out hunting after sighting in the rifles so like Craig Boddington, I will have to wait to report on any practical application with my 6.5 Creedmore, but I got mine before he got his
A 26 caliber cartridge, it is very similar to the .260 Remington in performance closer to the .280 Rem It is based on the 7.62 NATO / .308 Winchester cartridge and so can be chambered in the short action and is necked from 30 cal to 26 caliber also said to outperform the parent .308 Winchester.
In a recent article Craig Boddington lamented he has to date not owned nor has he shot any game with the Creedmore despite his wife and daughter both having harvested game with it. That might have been amended by now.
Toward the end of October I retired after 37 years of service to the Government. I received a nice letter of thanks from the Premiere and a bunch of banked overtime that I had to cash in. A wise man would have put it all into RRSPs

I wanted to buy myself a nice retirement memento. After consulting with my friends decided on a 6.5 Creedmore and on the suggestion of my friend Mark McGee ordered a Remington 700 Hunter with the Magpul stock. It took a few days to arrive at my LGS which actually worked to my benefit. My coworkers all chipped in and gave me a gift certificate to the self same LGS and as luck would have it Cabella's put this model on sale and the shop graciously matched the sale price... I basically got it for half price.
After getting it home it cried out for a scope which would balance the anticipated performance. I had a Leupould 3X9 and a 2X7 both Vari-X II's as spares. Not good enough. So ... I robbed the Leupould 30 mm Vari-X III 4.5-14 from my Sako A7 in .308 Win and put the 2X7 on it. The A7 balances as a featherweight with the change.
Next off to the range.

I could not bore sight the 6.5 due to the height of the scope causing it to sight over top of the calumniator so I started the process at 25 yards which is the approximate distance the bullet first crosses the line of sight. After some adjustment and a cleaning of the bore I moved the target to one hundred meters and settled on a 3/4 inch group of five rounds 2 1/2 inches above point of aim and only had 3 rounds left. I checked a target left by a previous shooter at 200 meters which appeared untouched and the two metal gongs of different sizes and the first round smacked the larger gong, second round smacked the smaller gong and the third printed 3/4 inch below point of aim.
As Ron always said Nuff ...in this case good'nuff.
I like sighting in my rifles, my friend Richard Buck said I am anal about it. I record every shot , every adjustment, weather wind, if I am shooting alone or with a spotter and actually prefer to be alone. I find I do better work with no distractions.
I took the Sako out another day and sighted it in 1 1/2 inches high at 100 and my little finger nail could cover it

I was not able to get out hunting after sighting in the rifles so like Craig Boddington, I will have to wait to report on any practical application with my 6.5 Creedmore, but I got mine before he got his

Hopefully the S won't HTF and I pray every day that it won't. It would not be fun.
I have a high art..I wound with cruelty, all who wound me...Archillocus; 650 B.C.
I have a high art..I wound with cruelty, all who wound me...Archillocus; 650 B.C.