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Gonna build a 6.5, but which one?
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<blockquote data-quote="JTB" data-source="post: 1622976" data-attributes="member: 97196"><p>I have a few young grandkids hunting deer and elk now and I love building rifles for them. They all want to shoot a Creedmoor for deer. You can build them with light barrels/stocks and accuracy is seldom a problem. For elk they generally use 6.5-06 or 7mm WSM. I believe the 6.5-06 has take more deer and elk than any other rifle in my collection and I have never personally used it for hunting. I am working on a light 25 PRC and expect this will be a great rifle for the kids. We are ending up with a lot of 6.5 PRCs in our collection because everyone who shoots one has to have one. Using the Tikka action is becoming popular with this round. Feeds perfectly from the stock magazine and OAL is not an issue. 140-160gr at 3000fps will take any large game at fairly long ranges. I prefer using the 142gr ABLR in 6.5 but have had good results with ELDs and VLDs. It really comes down to what your interests/capabilities are. Regardless, we have found that these longer pills at higher spin rates seem to be highly effective on game so I had to change my tune of recommending larger calibers (30 or greater) elk sized game. Enjoy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JTB, post: 1622976, member: 97196"] I have a few young grandkids hunting deer and elk now and I love building rifles for them. They all want to shoot a Creedmoor for deer. You can build them with light barrels/stocks and accuracy is seldom a problem. For elk they generally use 6.5-06 or 7mm WSM. I believe the 6.5-06 has take more deer and elk than any other rifle in my collection and I have never personally used it for hunting. I am working on a light 25 PRC and expect this will be a great rifle for the kids. We are ending up with a lot of 6.5 PRCs in our collection because everyone who shoots one has to have one. Using the Tikka action is becoming popular with this round. Feeds perfectly from the stock magazine and OAL is not an issue. 140-160gr at 3000fps will take any large game at fairly long ranges. I prefer using the 142gr ABLR in 6.5 but have had good results with ELDs and VLDs. It really comes down to what your interests/capabilities are. Regardless, we have found that these longer pills at higher spin rates seem to be highly effective on game so I had to change my tune of recommending larger calibers (30 or greater) elk sized game. Enjoy [/QUOTE]
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