6.5 creedmoor or .270 pros and cons

[nun_hunter]

I like how the actual Creedmoor owners are banging on about how good it is, they're just using them and getting on with it. Yet all the 270 owners are on here trying to explain how good it is and justify how it's better or equal if you do certain things or shoot within certain distances etc

The only people talking about tacticool, man buns and homsexuality are those who don't own a Creedmoor which I think says a lot more about them and what feelings they have buried deep down

 

[25 Sharps]

Had a 270 couldn’t fault it put everything down well but have changed to 6.5cm but not used it yet. I must be fair it’s like shooting a 243 and I can keep sight picture. I would imagine 6.5 creedmoor tops the sales in USA over a 270, and they shoot way more deer than we do

Do they really?

With modern rifles?

Bearing in mind the US has a tag system and rifle seasons are really short, many might only ‘harvest’ 1 deer a year with modern a rifle. Overall numbers of deer shot will be higher due to there being more hunters, but individual hunters generally shoot far fewer deer per year than an average UK stalker.

 

[25 Sharps]

Both will kill deer.

6.5 creedmoor will have more choice of ammunition, non lead ammunition, new rifles.

.270 will have cheaper SH rifles available and carry more power to sensible ranges.

I shoot creedmoor and .280, yes the .280 recoils more but it’s not unbearable, put a mod on your .270 and you’ll be fine.

Other than ammunition availability it really makes no difference which you choose.

 

[David78b]

Do they really?

With modern rifles?

Bearing in mind the US has a tag system and rifle seasons are really short, many might only ‘harvest’ 1 deer a year with modern a rifle. Overall numbers of deer shot will be higher due to there being more hunters, but individual hunters generally shoot far fewer deer per year than an average UK stalker.

Do they really?

With modern rifles?

Bearing in mind the US has a tag system and rifle seasons are really short, many might only ‘harvest’ 1 deer a year with modern a rifle. Overall numbers of deer shot will be higher due to there being more hunters, but individual hunters generally shoot far fewer deer per year than an average UK stalker.

Fair point, we are a lucky bunch of hunter

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Do they really?

With modern rifles?

Bearing in mind the US has a tag system and rifle seasons are really short, many might only ‘harvest’ 1 deer a year with modern a rifle. Overall numbers of deer shot will be higher due to there being more hunters, but individual hunters generally shoot far fewer deer per year than an average UK stalker.

But they do because of this spend far more range time playing with their guns and loads compared to UK/EU shooters.

 

[25 Sharps]

But they do because of this spend far more range time playing with their guns and loads compared to UK/EU shooters.

They do, but that doesn’t make any difference to their knowledge of efficacy on deer.

And even then I suspect there are plenty of uk shooters who shoot as much on the range, I’m there generally 3 times a month and load test on my ground that is 5 minutes from my house regularly.

 

[homer]

That's it, they all end up dead. I havent used anywhere near as many calibres as yourself. 30-06 308 303 243 223 222. To be honest the 222 and 308 are what get used the most for deer these days. The others mostly just get oil wiped on them now.

Am I right in saying, that the .222 was very commonly used by the contractors in NZ to reduce the red population?

 

[big ears]

Got the choice of either, will be mainly used for fallow

Get what you want and not what anyone tells you in here

 

[6pt-sika]

That's it, they all end up dead. I havent used anywhere near as many calibres as yourself. 30-06 308 303 243 223 222. To be honest the 222 and 308 are what get used the most for deer these days. The others mostly just get oil wiped on them now.

Maybe the largest whitetail I ever witnessed in person being killed was done in in 1970 by my maternal grandfather with his circa 1958 Remington 722 in 222 at 103 carefully stepped off paces . He popped that deer in the temple and dead right there . I still have the rifle and the rack off that deer .

 

[Skinny78]

Maybe the largest whitetail I ever witnessed in person being killed was done in in 1970 by my maternal grandfather with his circa 1958 Remington 722 in 222 at 103 carefully stepped off paces . He popped that deer in the temple and dead right there . I still have the rifle and the rack off that deer .
Would be 100 thousand plus reds killed here with a 222 and recent decades 223. Have shot several myself. Great deer calibres.

 

[Skinny78]

Am I right in saying, that the .222 was very commonly used by the contractors in NZ to reduce the red population?

You are right. 222 has removed to many to count. Not only contractors. There's plenty of is still using them, and the 223.