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6.5 Creedmoor: Maximum Lethal Range for Whitetail
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<blockquote data-quote="vancewalker007" data-source="post: 1973146" data-attributes="member: 66917"><p>Given a rifle that is accurate enough and a shooter practiced enough and a shooting situation that allows it most of what I refer to as the standard cartridges (traces their roots back the 30/06) can easily take a deer at 500 yards. Some will give a shooter a little more margin than others, like your 6.5 CM, high BC bullet a lot of inherent accouracy etc. With the right accurate ammo your 6.5 CM can do it for sure.</p><p></p><p>Now the real question is how much time have you spent shooting paper or steel at 500 yards using field rests? How many deer have you shot at 500 yards with another rifle? Have you studied how to call wind? How accurate and consistent is this new rifle at 500 yards? Is the area you're hunting even conducive to producing 500 yard shot opportunities? I'm saying these things not to attack you but to give you ideas on how to get your Tikka and your skills ready to shoot 500 yards when the time comes. If you don't have long range experience start watching videos on technique. Get out to the range or somewhere you can shoot farther and get some trigger time. Learn about wind and wind calls. This is the hardest part of longer range shooting. </p><p></p><p>I hope that Tikka is a shooter. Most of the ones I've seen have been very accurate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vancewalker007, post: 1973146, member: 66917"] Given a rifle that is accurate enough and a shooter practiced enough and a shooting situation that allows it most of what I refer to as the standard cartridges (traces their roots back the 30/06) can easily take a deer at 500 yards. Some will give a shooter a little more margin than others, like your 6.5 CM, high BC bullet a lot of inherent accouracy etc. With the right accurate ammo your 6.5 CM can do it for sure. Now the real question is how much time have you spent shooting paper or steel at 500 yards using field rests? How many deer have you shot at 500 yards with another rifle? Have you studied how to call wind? How accurate and consistent is this new rifle at 500 yards? Is the area you're hunting even conducive to producing 500 yard shot opportunities? I'm saying these things not to attack you but to give you ideas on how to get your Tikka and your skills ready to shoot 500 yards when the time comes. If you don't have long range experience start watching videos on technique. Get out to the range or somewhere you can shoot farther and get some trigger time. Learn about wind and wind calls. This is the hardest part of longer range shooting. I hope that Tikka is a shooter. Most of the ones I've seen have been very accurate. [/QUOTE]
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