6.5 creedmoor I’m loosing confidence or should I?

[AER244]

I don’t handload for my kid’s rifles, because I don’t want them to depend on me for ammo. Both rifles are 270 Win Encores, and I set them up with a case of Winchester Supreme 140 gr Accubond ammo to share. My son has been shooting that ammo since 2005ish and has killed A BUNCH of deer and pigs with it. He just dropped a buck on Saturday in the TX panhandle at 410 yards, and his buddy had a rifle issue on the hunt and used Jake’s to drop a buck at 310 yards. My daughter has only killed a couple deer with her rifle and that ammo, but nothing she has shot has taken more than a step ot two after being hit.

Similar to you I’d imagine, I’ve killed more deer with corelokts than anything. Deadliest mushroom in the woods.

 

[Broncos]

Had great success with 140 grain Noslers in my Tikka .270

 

[TerryP]

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

The 6.5CM is a great cartridge.
Deer are not difficult to kill
Shot placement and bullet selection
I do all my rifle deer hunting these days with a 5.56 AR carbine using 60gr Nosler Partition’s
Never recovered a bullet and never shot a deer more than once.
6.5 good

 

[Oklahomabassin]

 

[dennishoddy]

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So, what are we looking at here? A parody of a bullet glued to a deer? The audio didn't come through for me.

 

[Steelers Fan]

SST is the worst bullet I've ever used on deer by far. Both in 7mm, .308 and .338 calibers. 7mm08 in a pistol, 300blkout and even 225gr in my 338RCM. They don't expand whatsoever imo. I didn't lose any deer with them, but they don't perform like anything else I've ever used such as .....

My only experience with SST's is the handloads I worked up for my daughter's Sako .243. They seem to have performed well on antelope at 310 yds and on a couple of good size Western OK bucks, each about 60yds. I remember one of the bullets that hit a rib on entry separated the core and the jacket with both found in opposite shoulder. I think there might have been another separation on another animal but not sure. In either case expansion was evident. I'm not knowledgably about jacket wall thickness and if it varies by caliber with these SST bullets so I can't argue your results. In my daughter's gun they'll 5 shot .75". And with that being said, I firmly believe a small hole in the right spot is better than a large hole in the wrong spot.

 

[Steelers Fan]

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That appears to be the back of the bullet so it tumbled on or prior to entry. I'd like to see the front/point for deformation. (presuming that's exit side)

 

[Steelers Fan]

The sst and ballistic tip look nearly identical, they do not perform the same though. Those who've used both the interbond and accubond told me they gave the same performance(both were elk hunters). I've only used the accubond, haven't tried the interbonds.

I handload the Accubonds in my son's .270WSM in the 140gr. He has had good performance with that bullet on antelope, deer and elk from that bullet.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

Bullet tumbled in cavity and partially exited inverted. The small mushroom held it inside hide