6.5 creedmoor I’m loosing confidence or should I?

[Okie4570]

Me too. But sometimes I like blood trails

I do too, but I'm a shoulder shooter because I'm pretty lazy like that with a gun lol.

 

[retrieverman]

I like gravy though

Me too. But sometimes I like blood trails

Yeah, I’m a pretty decent tracker, but I do need at least some blood to work with.

 

[dennishoddy]

The only deer I’ve taken with the 6.5 CM that was won at a DU banquet fell after a 50’ run with a Lapua 88 grain Scenar. It has a small hollow point to assist expansion. I’ve got a video somewhere of the shot.

 

[chazroh]

I’ve killed a few does around 400yds with the nosler ballistic tip in cm. Dropped in their tracks

 

[AER244]

I’m not a fan of SSTs at all. Ive shot a handful+ with them and unless it hit heavy bone, they didnt expand well for me. I never lost one cuz of them, but I almost did twice. Both required follow up shots on what should have been extremely lethal first hits. I’d lose confidence in SSTs, not the 6.5cm. Im not a fan of blood trails either.

 

[chazroh]

I’ve had good luck with sst in my Grendel. I tried using eld in my Grendel and had to shoot a doe twice at 80yds! And I lost a doe that I shot twice at 300yds with the eld.

 

[Jgibs0321]

I keep hearing all the negativity and all the praise I been wanting to shoot a doe with the reloads I have for a confidence builder but every deer I have seen so far has been half a mile away on public and people are everywhere hopefully during the week will be different. I was about to feel more confident today after thinking about it and a friend brought by a decent buck this afternoon that his nephew shot twice in the shoulder and once behind the shoulder with 129 grain hornady and said he finally went down and so did my confidence again. Maybe a doe will come by tomorrow I would hate to lose a good buck

I keep hearing all the negativity and all the praise I been wanting to shoot a doe with the reloads I have for a confidence builder but every deer I have seen so far has been half a mile away on public and people are everywhere hopefully during the week will be different. I was about to feel more confident today after thinking about it and a friend brought by a decent buck this afternoon that his nephew shot twice in the shoulder and once behind the shoulder with 129 grain hornady and said he finally went down and so did my confidence again. Maybe a doe will come by tomorrow I would hate to lose a good buck

I love 6.5 CM and had a lot of fun ringing steel at 1,350 yards.

But I used a 6.5 CM on a mature buck, I shot him twice behind the shoulder at 200 yards with a precision rifle, friend had loaded target projectiles and they didnt penetrate the ribs. So its not the cartridge that has a problem but the wrong bullet! Sad week for me. Then I killed my best buck with a 223 using a 64 grain nosler bonded bullet at 210 yards with my 16” fighting carbine.

Hope you get a good one and DONT lose it

 

[scott024]

My brother shot a small 8 pointer down by Coalgate with a 280 Remington using a 160 gr Nosler Partition. It ran 100 yards left only a small blood trail. When we found it, it's heart was hanging out the exit wound. Sometimes they drop, sometimes they run, and sometimes people exaggerate one way or the other on how good/bad a round is. I don't own a 6.5 CM, but looking at the ballistics, it shouldn't have any problems dropping a whitetail using a descent hunting bullet.

 

[2busy]

I've never had a deer go more than 10 yards with my .270 with hand loads with 130g sst. All but one was dead in their tracks. I shoot neck shots at 200 yards. When I want something dead I grab my Ruger #1 .270 with Hornady hand loads 130g SST. It's all in bullet placement.

 

[Two Gun Warrior]

Whenever I get a rifle that likes Amax bullets, I’m like DARN IT! I got away from amax’s because they wouldn’t leave a blood trail. The entrance would be the size of the bullet and I wouldn’t get an exit wound.
The bullet would just explode inside turning everything to gravy. It was devastating but no blood trail..
I had a couple go quite aways and if it would have been in thick cover, the trail would have been minimal

sounds like loaded to hot, slow them down, might have better knock down.