6.5 creedmoor at a mile???

[taliv]

When I shot the first ELR PRS match in Wyoming I used a slow 6.5x47L because my 300nm didn’t get built in time.

This is very interesting. I thought you judged the range of your round by how long you can keep it supersonic. I’m sure a lot of practice and learning goes into shooting past the transsonic range of a round.

As others have said some bullets do better than others. An example of an excellent bullet that flat out sucks going through transonic is the 168g SMK popular in 308win

 

[Txhillbilly]

I shoot both of my 6.5 CM's and my 260 out past a mile - 1793 yards. It sucks that the range that I shot on closed a few weeks ago, it went out to 2k yards.
The only other range that's near me goes out to 1200, so I'll have to join it now.

 

[Blackrock]

At the NRA Whitington Center there is a big white Buffalo silhouette at I think 1000 yards. My daughter and I were staying at the RV park on our way to SD to shoot Pdogs. We took a day to work with our rifles on a 300 yard range as she .hadn't shot n a long time. I could hit silhouettes out to 800 but just couldn't get enough dope on to hit the 1000 yard Buffalo. I just had my custom 6mm Remington and 87gr bullets so I was shooting SWAG anyways.

 

[Weflyfast]

It has more to do with the bullet design.

Yes! ....but don't forget that even though the forward energy is bleeding off rapidly the rotational energy is still cranking....just because the football wobbles....doesn't mean it's not catchable and close to target-.......even when Brady throws it......
Ha!

 

[Damon Brown]

Competing and shooting are most often very different things. If someone wants to compete in ELR, they’ll be running a super-magnum, even in light gun class (30-338 cartridges). But if someone has access to a mile or longer, nothing really stops us from shooting anything else we own at that distance just for the fun of it. Just the same as shooting 223 out to 1000, or shooting 22LR out to 400-500, or beyond.

I’ve shot my 6 Creed and 6 Dasher to a mile a few times in the last few years, I’ll do it again Friday this week during a side stage at a PRS match check in. A 6.5 creed is easier at a mile than a 6 creed, but getting there really isn’t so challenging. I shoot a long throated 300win mag a few times per year at a mile to 2000, just because. The first time I ever shot to a mile was with a 7x57mm, shooting a simple 140, many moons ago, with a lower BC and a very similar velocity to a 6.5 creed, and I shot there often with that rifle (an old Chevy S-10 hood hanging on a chain between two hedge trees as my target). Stick a big target out there and you’re prone to find it often enough to be satisfied that it wasn’t random chance.

Cold bore 1-MILE 223 Hornady TMK 24" barrel. This is my hometown range.

 

[Varminterror]

Cold bore 1-MILE 223 Hornady TMK 24" barrel. This is my hometown range.

Ok… wutchu want, a cookie?

Digging up a year old thread just for that nugget? Sheesh, some people’s kids…

What CAN be done has very, very little to do with what is done with good sense. One YouTube dude making two cold bore shots at a mile does not mean a 223 is a valid option for 1760 or beyond. There are lots of YouTube and Instagram clips out there of 1000yrd and 1 mile Milk Jug Challenges done with a 223/5.56. It’s all a social media novelty; it can be done, but it’s kinda like the tiger dog adopting a tiger cub or a farm truck rebuilt as a funny car… just novelty, and nobody seriously competing is wasting with a 223 at a mile when they’ve laid money down to compete. As I said in my last - If you own it, and have access to an ELR range, shoot it. Why not? But don’t point at stuff like this as evidence of what folks can reliably do with a 223, such a 223 should be considered a 1760 cartridge.

 

[BreechFace]

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[tarosean]

So what's the point? enough energy left over to pop a zit? Break over-cooked spaghetti?

Use the correct tool for the job at hand

 

[Captcurt]

I am sure that there are a few skilled shooters that can hit at over a mile. After all, Elmer Keith shot a deer at 600 yards with a 44mag revolver with open sights. I would think that a 1000+yard shot with a scoped rifle would be a piece of cake. I think that some of the 30-33 caliber mags would be better suited than the Creedmoor, but what do I know? I only shoot out to 500-600 yards. BTW, the Creedmoor does very well within that range for me.

Things look different in real life when compared to armchair ballistician's guesstimations. I worked with a pup, I call anyone under 30 a pup, who's main goal was to kill a deer at 1000 yards. He was shooting a 300WM with a 180gr bullet. I don't remember the load or velocity but when I crunched the numbers it came up with 23 feet of drop. He didn't know that. Kinda hard to hit at long range when you don't know your trajectories at all ranges.

 

[Nature Boy]

I once shot a sparrow through the eye with a crossman BB gun at ~100 yards.


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