6.5 Creedmore

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Just about any hunting load should work. I've personally seen Hornady "American Whitetail" 6.5 Creedmore ammo turn in sub 1 inch groups at 100 yds. from a rest being shot from a Ruger American by a guy I run into at the range occasionally. Don't recall the bullet weight or what scope he had on it but it impressed me. A buddy of mine has taken a couple deer with a 6.5 Creed in the last few years. I reload for him and this year he's gonna be shooting some 140 gr. bonded soft point bullets bullets that were sold by Midway USA as Blems. Dug out my reloading notes and he's always run bullets from 120-140 gr. and all have shot well and both deer he's taken with the Creed were one shot deals.
 
It's Creedmoor, not Creedmore. Named for a long range shooting club that dates from the late 1800's.

The Creedmoor 150 — The NMLRA

Honestly for deer at "normal" ranges anything 120 gr and up should be just fine. Like others said, what you can find at this point.

Where the 6.5 CM really shines however is with long, heavy bullets 140-150 gr that hold up for long distance shooting. Those are probably the most commonly available and what you're most likely to find. Just be sure it is a bullet designed for hunting, not a target bullet. SOME target bullets perform just fine for hunting, but not all. If in doubt I'd hesitate to use a target bullet.
 
Whatever your gun likes. I have had 4 Creedmoors and have shot a bunch of whitetails with 129gr-130gr. My favorite is the 130gr Accubond in my Mauser M18 and 129gr Accubond LR in my Bergara. Tried the 143 ELD-X and it worked well, but I still prefer the 130's It would be Federal Fusions if I had to shoot factory fodder, provided that it shot well in my rifle.
 
jmr40 said:
It's Creedmoor, not Creedmore. Named for a long range shooting club that dates from the late 1800's.
......Oops; you're correct. I know how to spell it and that was a famous shooting range down on Long Island NY. But sometimes I have trouble multi-tasking two things at once..... Like trying to type and spell at the same time. Never loaded anything outside that 120-140 gr. bullet weight range for my buddies Creedmoor ( there; I spelled it right) and a couple years ago we used some Sierra 130 gr. Gamechanger bullets with RL-17 powder with great results. Except now those bullets are pretty scarce but those 140 gr. blems from Midway USA are doing real good accuracy wise with H-4350 powder. If the OP is limited to factory ammo the Hornady American Whitetail stuff from my previous post is what I would try if I had a 6.5 Creed and was limited to factory offerings. Although every 6.5 Creedmoor I've ever seen, or reloaded for, seems to be a great shooter with almost anything. That's what folks call "inherent accuracy" and that's what impresses me about a cartridge. I'd probably get myself a Creed if I wasn't already enamored with my 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser. I call it a "6.5 Sweedmoor".
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Hornady 140gr Bthp and 143 eldx is what I had last year and my Sil took 2 deer with each, all four were just as dead, all high shoulder hits.
I have been seeing some Nosler and Norma white tail on shelves, bought some of the Noslers to try myself.
 
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The 100 grain TTSX Barnes would be a good deer bullet for the 6.5 Creedmoor at around 3250 fps (24" barrel ) it would a 3" Point Blank Range of 314 yards ... 2430 fps at 314 yards and 1213 ft lbs energy ....
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One of the most expensive bullets, if you can find them. I'm trying a few 168gr in 300wm this year to see how they do.
 
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Anyone use a Nosler 120 gr...BT ?.....
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Yup, but in a .260 Rem...maybe a might faster at 2930 FPs out of my Rem M7 with 20" tube.

7 Whitetails to date, from 90-213 yards, all 1 shot, double lunged and have yet to recover a bullet.

I'm going to try the 130 AB once I get my M7 back from re-barreling but honestly have had great luck with the 120BTs (and also the 100BTs) and I've got about 5 boxes of them.

3 Nosler BTs from M7 at 220 yds with 2.5-8x36 Leupold:

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I have had very good performance from the Hornady Superformance with the 129 SST Interlock. Probably not the most accurate but the terminal performance has been very good.

Granted that this a Hornady advertising piece, I have observed this type of performance in the field. See:

 
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MistWolf said:
The way some folks criticize the caliber, you'd think it was called the Cried More...
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There is so much overlap between calibers nowadays that you can get people arguing over a .05mm diameter like it matter much when those bullets are going 2900fps vs 2910…. In all honesty just place the bullet where it matters
 
Any softpoint or Barnes-type hollow point that groups inside 2” off a bench, that will hold a pie plate off hand at your max hunting distance, will kill any whitetail walking the woods.

In other words, buy whatever you can get more than one box of, zero your rifle, and go hunting!

Good luck and have fun!
 
Got this one with my .260 10/28/21.
120gr Speer HotCor over 47.0gr RL22 for 2,900fps.
Hit him in right shoulder walking towards me at ~25yds. Slightly downwards as I was in a ladder stand, ground slopes up away from me.
Deer ran about 30yds. Collapsed.
Bullet destroyed right shoulder, top of heart, right lung. Didn’t exit, but was lost in internal organs. Previous kills revealed perfect expansion.

Most any Soft point bullet, 120gr or heavier works. My youngest daughter killed her 1st deer with this rifle with the Speer 140gr HotCor. It gave complete penetration. Speer still makes them.
 

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I can tell you what the best is in MY rifle (Ruger American predator)- Federal nontypical, 140 grain SP. 1 MOA or better groups, MV=2620. Had no issues quickly putting down the buck I shot with it last year. I remember "way back when" (we're talking 2018) I was able to get a box of those rounds for about $17 from academy. Also, full disclosure- I never tried anything else in MY rifle. I bought a box of those things, tested and killed a deer with them, and never bothered to try anything else.
 
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