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600 Yards Max for Whitetail: 7mm STW vs 6.5 Creedmoor
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<blockquote data-quote="Murtfree" data-source="post: 2001860" data-attributes="member: 111090"><p>To me, my rifles are set up to be precision instruments to do a very specific surgically precise job. On my farm I have very similar situations to yours; tree stands and box blinds in the wooded sections where 75 yards is a long shot and box blinds in the bean fields where 600 yards is very possible. I don't have a Creedmoor because, well I know this will get me in hot water, but is just not a cartridge that will do much more than any other short action cartridge. It's death ray status is BS to me. I use an 18 inch Remington carbine in 7mm-08 with a Leupold 1-5x in my woods stands(Close enough to a Creedmoor in my world) because it handles like a dream in close quarters situations and I'll grab either my .257 Weatherby with a Leupold 3-15 VX5 or 7STW for the bean fields. Both have almost a 800FPS advantage over the 7mm-08(the .257 even more); I wouldn't think of using the 7mm-08 for those long open field shots because of the correction I would have to build in to the shot, and sometimes the deer don't cooperate and hang around long enough for me to break out a calculator. Each rifle/caliber has it's place and I decide on which I am using by which location I am hunting. If I wanted to change stand location during the day I would keep the alternate rifle in my truck or UTV</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Murtfree, post: 2001860, member: 111090"] To me, my rifles are set up to be precision instruments to do a very specific surgically precise job. On my farm I have very similar situations to yours; tree stands and box blinds in the wooded sections where 75 yards is a long shot and box blinds in the bean fields where 600 yards is very possible. I don’t have a Creedmoor because, well I know this will get me in hot water, but is just not a cartridge that will do much more than any other short action cartridge. It’s death ray status is BS to me. I use an 18 inch Remington carbine in 7mm-08 with a Leupold 1-5x in my woods stands(Close enough to a Creedmoor in my world) because it handles like a dream in close quarters situations and I’ll grab either my .257 Weatherby with a Leupold 3-15 VX5 or 7STW for the bean fields. Both have almost a 800FPS advantage over the 7mm-08(the .257 even more); I wouldn’t think of using the 7mm-08 for those long open field shots because of the correction I would have to build in to the shot, and sometimes the deer don’t cooperate and hang around long enough for me to break out a calculator. Each rifle/caliber has it’s place and I decide on which I am using by which location I am hunting. If I wanted to change stand location during the day I would keep the alternate rifle in my truck or UTV [/QUOTE]
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