GatorHunter
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So long story short, a friend of a friend is bragging about hunting at 1500 yards for deer with a 6.5 creedmoor. I don’t know about the truth of it but ballistics say it’s not wise. I don’t want to debate the story, I want to test the theory. After doing all the research in ballistics, his 129gr Hornady whitetail ammo is doing just over 900fps at 1500 yards. This got me thinking of how to test this on ballistics gel. I don’t own a 6.5 in any caliber but I do have a few boxes of 6.5 129 gr Hornady interlocks. I picked them up when my friend was getting started with his 6.5 Grendel build. Has anyone loaded subsonic 6.5 Grendel or any 6.5 for that matter? I have it figured out that I need to do about 950-980fps at the muzzle to shoot a block of ballistic gel at 50 yards. Is it possible to go this low?