6.5 Cm question

[King_G]

What do you guys think the 6.5 creedmoor is suitable for hunting ie Deer, Elk and so on?

[DuramaxDude]

You probably are gonna get a lot of opinions here. For deer mulies and whitetail I would say defiantly. As far as elk it will generate enough energy to take one down but my own personal preference I would rather have something larger like a 300 WM or 7mm mag.

[ColinR]

Are you kidding me, it's a 6.5 freekin creedmoor for Christ sake. You can shoot a elephant in the a s s at a mile and it will be DRT!

I would look an a ballistic chart and go by energy. Thin skinned game 1000lb energy or more and 1200 lb energy for elk sized game.

[mrc]

It will kill an elk, it may not be the best choice under every condition but it will work.

[6.5 shooter]

This is going to be a good thread.

[TacticalCowboy]

.308 would be my bare minimum for elk.
Would a 6.5 work? Probably so. Will a 204 work for deer? Yes, but definitely not my first choice.

[clffrdfdge]

Anything an arrow can kill.

[Stick1]

More than adequate for elk, if the shooter keeps it inside it's limitations. It's not a big 7 or big 30....and you can't make it one, but at a reasonable distance it will cleanly do the job. Have seen it too many times to doubt it.

[LWD]

I wouldn't use it on elk. I wouldn't even use it on mule deer. For either, I'd have my .30-06 or something larger. Will it work? Yeah? The best choice? Not in my opinion. But I tend toward larger calibers and have shot a few whitetail does with a .375 H&H........

LWD

[TxAg]

If folks take a hard look at the data, they'll see it doesn't lag too far behind some of the more common elk cartridges. Randy Newberg shoots all his elk with 7mm-08 or 308 and he has piles of elk. These days, bullet choice spoils us and makes all the cartridge options more and more equal.

For what it's worth, I'm taking a 6.5cm to hunt cow elk this year.

Hornady lists their 6.5 creedmoor 143 grain eld-x good up to 1500# animals.

[tigerscowboy]

This debate should not be permitted

[Wil Taylor]

Would I shoot an elk at 5-600 yards with a creedmoor, NO. BUT a properly placed shot out to 300, sure. I had a older friend that lived and guided in New Mexico and guided for many years. All he used was a 243 and killed a lot of very large bulls with it.
Just my .02

[Rem40x]

243. Is a bad***** not even in same ballpark as 6.5 cm

[Sackett]

The 6.5 x 55 Swede has taken more Moose than any other caliber. The 6.5 Creedmoor is a perfectly fine round for Elk. People kill them with sharp devices on the ends of arrows all the time.

[tradslam]

It will work on elk in a pinch, great deer and lope round.