6.5 Creedmoor for varmints

[Don Altieri]

Does anybody use 6.5 Creedmoor for varmints? Does it work well?

 

[xsn10s]

I use my 260 AI for long range larger varmints and predators. I'm careful where I use it though, I like to have a good back stop and clear area down range for miles when using it.

 

[Rosebud]

There are better tools for that, But if its all you have load the lightest 6.5 bullet you can find and go at it.

 

[xsn10s]

There are better tools for that, But if its all you have load the lightest 6.5 bullet you can find and go at it.

Yup I agree. I use a 5.56 AR15 as my general truck gun/ vamint rifle. A bolt 223 rem, 204 Ruger or even a 17 of some sort would be better. I'll build a 20 Practical this fall/ winter for coyotes/ varmints. The 260 AI is strictly 500 yards and beyond FOR ME.

 

[Maol]

Yeah I keep threatening to build a 20 Practical upper for Yotes, Jacks and PDs. Till then .223 works real good. Don't have to worry about Bears so at night I grab a 6.8 SPC for the better terminal effects for Lions and the 2 Legged Varmints.

 

[Panhandle Pete]

Does anybody use 6.5 Creedmoor for varmints? Does it work well?

We load 95 grain Hornady VMAX in our 260 AI for fireform loads, it is really impressive in a PD town with some high flippers.

 

[mhdick]

Went out 2 weeks ago on a PD hunt/ shoot with my brother in Kansas. Mainly shot 223 and 22-250, but I took my 6.5 also and had confirmed kill at 488yds. No reason you can't shoot varmints with a 6.5.

 

[pdog06]

I have a friend that built a 6.5cm and uses it for groundhogs at home and prairie dogs on our trips. He loads 100gr Nosler ballistic tips with H4350 and it works well.
Very similar, I used to use a 260 with 120 Nosler ballistic tips and I loved it shooting the longer range shots.

A lot of calibers more practical for sure, it it kills them just as dead

 

[Stugots]

Last year I dragged out my 6.5CM and shot a few P Dogs out around 450 yards. The bullet was a Berger 130 Grain AR Hybrid OTM. There wasn't much left of the P Dog after I hit them with that.

 

[lancetkenyon]

Every rifle I own has been used for varmints except my 6.5PRC/SI and .300PRC (ONLY because they are so new).
From .22LR to .300RUM w. 230s.

 

[xsn10s]

Every rifle I own has been used for varmints except my 6.5PRC/SI and .300PRC (ONLY because they are so new).
From .22LR to .300RUM w. 230s.

Part of the way I test my hunting rifles.

 

[RB II]

I have a semi custom 260, heavy barrel, would be perfect weight for p-dogs. Just the cost of shooting high volume "large rifle" shells at p-dogs doesn't sit very well with me. Although I have ZERO issues banging steel with them, craziness I guess. I am working on a 6 CM right now, it will likely make the trip next p-dog shoot.

 

[RB II]

You were excavating them with the RUM rather than shooting them!!!! LOL

Every rifle I own has been used for varmints except my 6.5PRC/SI and .300PRC (ONLY because they are so new).
From .22LR to .300RUM w. 230s.

 

[lancetkenyon]

You were excavating them with the RUM rather than shooting them!!!! LOL

Pretty much dug a trench right through him.
Not fur friendly.