Originally Posted By: yotekiller47CH, I've got a 25/06 and really like it. Very Accurate and hard hitting. I noticied the 6.5 Creedmore looked like it bucked the wind pretty good. I just put a 6.5 Grendel.264 LBC together and getting it ready. Next rifle I get will probably be a Creedmore or 6.5x47 Lapua. Did the Creedmore perform any better in the wind or did it just look like it did? Thanks for the videos and keep them coming.
I tried my 270 and a 110gr to fight the wind, but didn't like the powder consumption.
My shooter / camera man on many trips, bought that 25-06. It seems to do very well but he needs to buy a can of powder every time we go hunting. My 7MM-08 was ok with a 100 gr bullet, but it just wasn't the varmint rifle I'd hoped for. I liked my 6MM Remington I had back in the mid 70's, so I tried to combined all of these by getting a 257 Roberts. I'll have to say I like it. With the 70 to 90 gr bullets, it's fast flat and burns less powder than a 25-06. I thought JUST the speed and dia. of the bullet would cause tissue displacement and give a flat trajectory. The 257 does very well but I'll have to say, my friends 6.5 creedmoor ( with a non varmint bullet, A-max ) was very Impressive to me. It doesn't seems like the .007 larger Dia. bullet (26 Cal) should cause more tissue displacement than my 257 going faster, but he was blowing them up.
It has me a bit dismayed, confused and scratching my head. I could blow them up at 200 to 250 y, but if you watch video #2, he 'explodes' one at 450 y with a target bullet. In video #3, we were shooting at shorter ranges and we both did well. For some reason, his 6.5 was slower, shooting a heavier bullet to fight the wind AND he was exploding them even at distance.
I don't know how to explain the good performance, but I was impressed with that 26 caliber.
The thought crossed my mind, maybe I should have bought a 260 or at least a 26 caliber something. To answer your question, he was fighting the wind with a heavy bullet AND exploding them very well in my opinion. 26 cal was impressive.
CH