LongWalker
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If your not looking for an excuse I'd just shoot the creed! Frankly if you can't get closer than 400 or 500....well, you'll be able to! Just run a good bullet. Many an elk has been smoked with a 22-250 or 220 swift! Not recommending it but seriously the 6.5 will do you just fine!
I'm tilting that direction. I tried RL-26 behind the 140 but the Lapua brass couldn't hold enough powder to make a difference. I've got some once fired Hornady from barrel break in and I can get the full Berger max load in it a little compressed. If I can pickup a 100fps or more then I'm right in the wheelhouse so I'm go to load some just for a velocity test and if it works do a full load development from there.
But in the long run accuracy trumps everything and I can ring six inch plates at 500 all day long with the 6.5 creed as it is right now.