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Is the 6.5 Creedmoor too "light" for 1,000+ yard hunting?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bravo 4" data-source="post: 1437128" data-attributes="member: 8873"><p>Tesoro,</p><p>I don't think he meant bullet weight, I think he meant the ballistics at that range aren't ideal (external and terminal...because external helps define terminal).</p><p>I always say this- I try to think worst case scenario. </p><p>The 6.5 Creedmore is no doubt a good medium range cartridge on game and decent at LR target. Do people kill elk at LR with it, sure they do. I hear it all the time that elk aren't hard to kill, and I'm no expert, but I have witnessed elk take an exorbitant amount of lead and energy and not flinch on more than one occasion. So I will flip the script and say this, how many people do you think shoot and wound elk at long range with mediocre cartridges not even knowing they hit it, and then not even cross that canyon or valley and check for a hit? Probably the same amount of guys you speak of with their fancy-high dollar range finder. Yes people will read the internet and watch tv shows and think the latest and greatest gadgetry will basically make the shot for them, but that's the problem I have with the Creedmore. No fault lies with the cartridge itself, it's with the mantra that follows it. And that mantra is the same what you speak of. </p><p>And I do agree with you that guys will just pop rounds off out of ignorance at game at extended range, but they've done that as long as I've been around and always will.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bravo 4, post: 1437128, member: 8873"] Tesoro, I don’t think he meant bullet weight, I think he meant the ballistics at that range aren’t ideal (external and terminal...because external helps define terminal). I always say this- I try to think worst case scenario. The 6.5 Creedmore is no doubt a good medium range cartridge on game and decent at LR target. Do people kill elk at LR with it, sure they do. I hear it all the time that elk aren’t hard to kill, and I’m no expert, but I have witnessed elk take an exorbitant amount of lead and energy and not flinch on more than one occasion. So I will flip the script and say this, how many people do you think shoot and wound elk at long range with mediocre cartridges not even knowing they hit it, and then not even cross that canyon or valley and check for a hit? Probably the same amount of guys you speak of with their fancy-high dollar range finder. Yes people will read the internet and watch tv shows and think the latest and greatest gadgetry will basically make the shot for them, but that’s the problem I have with the Creedmore. No fault lies with the cartridge itself, it’s with the mantra that follows it. And that mantra is the same what you speak of. And I do agree with you that guys will just pop rounds off out of ignorance at game at extended range, but they’ve done that as long as I’ve been around and always will. [/QUOTE]
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