Why am I keeping this 6.5 Creedmoor for COYOTES???

std7mag said:
Negative...

They are just cartridges. Nothing more.

It's the whole shooting system, including the loose nut behind the trigger that produces repeatable accuracy.
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Platform is important but all the current long range Br. records including my own are held by the ones I mentioned, along with the 300 WSM & 6.5x47 Lapua iirc.
A br variant will shoot inside every cartridge I know of without much effort.
The short fat powder column seems to be the key element to this mind boggling "inherently accurate," but then again I'm just an average guy that doesn't know what he doesn't know.
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skipglo said:
Interesting post Reverend...I just loaded some 95 gr Yesterday myself for my 270 WSM..... 3715 fps....now to find a YOTE to test drive them...the only ones I could find are Barnes TSX.,not sure what a mono will do at that speed....any input is welcome fellas!
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Generally depends on if you hit big bone or not, which on a yote is shoulder, spine and or on a frontal shot the breast bone. If you don't hit one of those generally the Mono won't open a ton load going thru soft tissue
 
While I have shot yotes with 270's, 30-06, 308, 25-06, 243/6mm, etc, by far the majority have been with 22 cals in 223, 22-250 and 22-250AI, and except for my earlier years, much of those have been with fast twists and heavier, higher BC bullets.

For your question, I would go with the more precise rifle/load and higher BC, which sounds like its your 6.5CM.

I remember a few yotes and bobcats who came walking out while I was deer hunting, and they took either a 130/140gr BTSP from my 270W or a 165BTSP from my 30-06. Yea, not exactly pelt friendly.
 
@MagnumManiac
I couldn't help but notice you thought my comment was funny, would you care to expand on that ?
I don't want to misinterpret your tag.
 
Magnum...you said:
Inherent accuracy is a gun rag myth.
There is no such thing…

IMHO...................when speaking of rifles not being inherently accurate, I agree with you 100%. On cartridges, I disagree as there's a relatively short list of cartridges that are indeed "inherently" accurate. 7 decades of gun ownerships have "very expensively" confirmed that. 🥹 Just sayin'. Not to mention all the LR titles and world records presently being set by those cartridges.
 
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To share a quick experience, years ago I shot a Savage BVSS chambered in 308 W. That rifle would shoot at best 10 shot groups around 4 inch at 600 off a front rest and rear bag using my best hand loads. After re barreling that rifle into a straight 6 br with basically zero load development just 30 gr of Varget and a 107 sierra hpbt jumped about .015 would shoot low 3's and mid 2's.. so essentially half the size with the exact same platform.
I just re barreled a Tikka 308 into a 6 dasher, I can honestly say the dasher will edge out the straight six and most certainly shoots way smaller groups at mid range than with its previous 308 w chambering.
Therefore by definition , the 6 br family is "inherently accurate "
 
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Why hunt coyotes with a 6.5 Creed?

Because .223s don't do this to them!

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Reverend Mr. Black said:
Hey Nate.

Not looking for justification. Looking for whatever "possible" ballistic advantages. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think I'm the first shooter to do that.
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No I know, and I get it. The the Grey bearded old .270W can still get it done, the 6.5 has always had BC advantages but it seems the gun community today reacts like raccoons to new shiny things.

The 6.5 Sweede is still viable but many today don't know what it is.

If I truly wanted a dedicated coyote rifle I'd do a .22-250 ai with a 1:7.5 twst or .22 Creedmoor with the same.
 
I shoot the .264 100 grain ELDVT out of my 8 twist 6.5 CM at about 3250. I could probably get more velocity, about 200 fps or about 6% slower than from my 8 twist 6.5-06 at 3450 fps
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The 6.5 100 ELDVT has a G7 of .266 on box, .226 in Hornady manual. Form Factors for the 100 ELDVT are real low compared to other 6.5 bullets. A light bullet with high velocity and comparible G7 BC's as heavier bullets.

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G7 on box .266, G7 in manual .226

Manual published more than a year ago, box printed early this year. Take your pick.

The 6.5 CM is commony used as a match round along with .308 Win and 6 CM, 6 Dasher, probably because all of them are inherently accurate (relatively small capacity for bore size) and have nice pointy bullets.

I have not shot any creature with the 6.5 100 ELDVT yet. I don't shoot deers, only rodents. I would prefer a 62 or 69 .224 ELDVT from my 7.7 twist .22-.250 higher velocites for yotes & rodents. If I was restricted to only the 6.5CM the 100 ELDVT would be my first choice for yotes & rodents. The 6.5CM would be better on deers (143 ELDX).
 
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