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Wife's 6.5 Creed for Africa
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<blockquote data-quote="RockyMtnMT" data-source="post: 2584072" data-attributes="member: 7999"><p>I get the worries about the 6.5 Creed running an 85g Hammer Hunter being too small. I do it too! Some of what I choose to shoot when we go to Africa is for the testing that we can get done there on the sheer number of animals. Some of what I take is to prove a point, that you don't have to have heavy for caliber to have great results on game. Even big tough game. Sometimes it is to prove to myself what our bullets can do well. I have not shot the 6.5mm 85g Hammer Hunter on game. We have great reports from customers, but I need to see live animal testing myself. I think I said earlier in the thread that Trophy Game Safari use 70g Hammer Hunters in their house gun that is a 243win, for all but the biggest game. When we suggested that was the bullet to use, they were very skeptical. Now that they have used it on hundreds of animals over the last 4 years, they trust it. </p><p></p><p>I like the Stocky's stock. We did not have a lot of choice for the Vanguard action, so we took what we could find. I don't think it is too short for Jill as it is full length of pull. I will look at putting the scope farther forward and see if that looks better. She looks to me like she is too far away from the scope, but she tells me she has full field of view.</p><p></p><p>We will see how it goes with the little Creed with the little 85g Hammer Hunter. If it goes well I may use it to Hammer a trophy eland bull. We did it the first trip in 2018 with a 257 Wby running the 116g Shock Hammer. At that time I didn't think it was enough, but that eland had a different opinion than I did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RockyMtnMT, post: 2584072, member: 7999"] I get the worries about the 6.5 Creed running an 85g Hammer Hunter being too small. I do it too! Some of what I choose to shoot when we go to Africa is for the testing that we can get done there on the sheer number of animals. Some of what I take is to prove a point, that you don't have to have heavy for caliber to have great results on game. Even big tough game. Sometimes it is to prove to myself what our bullets can do well. I have not shot the 6.5mm 85g Hammer Hunter on game. We have great reports from customers, but I need to see live animal testing myself. I think I said earlier in the thread that Trophy Game Safari use 70g Hammer Hunters in their house gun that is a 243win, for all but the biggest game. When we suggested that was the bullet to use, they were very skeptical. Now that they have used it on hundreds of animals over the last 4 years, they trust it. I like the Stocky's stock. We did not have a lot of choice for the Vanguard action, so we took what we could find. I don't think it is too short for Jill as it is full length of pull. I will look at putting the scope farther forward and see if that looks better. She looks to me like she is too far away from the scope, but she tells me she has full field of view. We will see how it goes with the little Creed with the little 85g Hammer Hunter. If it goes well I may use it to Hammer a trophy eland bull. We did it the first trip in 2018 with a 257 Wby running the 116g Shock Hammer. At that time I didn't think it was enough, but that eland had a different opinion than I did. [/QUOTE]
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