6 Creedmoor for Desert Bighorn

[Huntnful]

Visible exit is several inches higher than the entrance. Steep sheep shot...

Awesome! That's a dandy exit hole for sure.

 

[memtb]

Sheep are thin skinned and are fairly easy to kill when hit in the vitals. I'm sure that combo would work. My question to you is this. It's $40-70K for a desert bighorn hunt. The only chance you have at the biggest ram in the unit is 600 yds with a 15 mph wind. Do you want a 103 grain bullet bucking the wind or something bigger? Personally I want/need every edge I can get and would go to a bigger caliber rifle and bullet. Your money and your choice.
Bruce

A better response than this, I'd love to hear!

Unless the hunter is blessed with the "Riches of Solomon" and has a 4 Leaf Clover guaranteeing more licenses…..there are much better choices!

Addendum: I should started reading the posts on page 11! memtb

 

[WYO300RUM]

Congratulations on an awesome Ram !
I looked back at first couple pages and couldn't find what state you shot him in. Arizona or California? Maybe Nevada? I don't remember. Sorry.

 

[howco]

Congratulations, what a well earned trophy.

 

[DMack]

Congratulations on an awesome Ram !
I looked back at first couple pages and couldn't find what state you shot him in. Arizona or California? Maybe Nevada? I don't remember. Sorry.

New Mexico

 

[bigngreen]

Wow, it killed it, who would have thought! Congrats on the ram!

 

[WYO300RUM]

New Mexico

Now I remember. Sorry. Congrats again.

 

[akmtnhnt]

A better response than this, I'd love to hear!

How about the fact the the person you quoted doesn't understand what effects bullet wind drift.

 

[dnb86]

Visible exit is several inches higher than the entrance. Steep sheep shot...

but it would have been more dead with a 300UM right?……. all joking aside congrats on a awesome big horn! And thanks for posing pictures

 

[Marky_mark]

Visible exit is several inches higher than the entrance. Steep sheep shot...

congrats on your ram

 

[Beluebow]

So, here's the result of all the wisdom, sarcasm and heartfelt advice...

Decided to go with the 6.5 Creedmoor at the end of the final auditions. I was getting a random flyer with the 6CM I could not explain. The 6.5 is shooting bugholes with SD's under 5. Using Peterson SRP brass, H4350, 143 ELD x, and a Fed 205M primer.

I was able to sneak to 330 yards of a 9 year old ram. The steep uphill angle needed almost .3 mil correction. He was bedded, and when he stood up I had a slightly quartered broadside. The first shot was a solid hit right where I was holding. He humped up and turned the opposite direction. I bolted the rifle and hit him a second time in pretty much the same place on the opposite side. That round piled him up and he fell about 30 feet into a tree

Both rounds had full penetration and the exit holes were about an inch I would guess. In this instance, the rifle, round and bullet all performed fantastic. The more I shoot the mid-bore rounds, the better I like them. I certainly did not "needmoor".

The hunt was hot, miserable, grueling and AWESOME! Keep applying, you never know...

Awesome! Congrats!!

 

[lancetkenyon]

Not many "Griz" or "Brownies" in desert bighorn country! But what if you get charged by a rouge desert tortoise? surely you will need a magnum to get though that shell to the vitals The 6 creed will work fine.

You must have met Yertle, my watchturtle. I can honestly say, his bite doesn't tickle.

 

[TannerGun]

105 HBPT worked fine out of my 6mm Creed.

 

[Northkill]

incorrect
You miss a little back with a 6mm it doesnt have an exit hole and the animal runs a long long ways with minimal blood lose
You miss a little back with a 150 plus gr bullet and its guts are dragging behind it and its not going 100 yards without laying down

I know this from experience. Did a 600 yard hit on a doe with a 243 and the 90 grain Nosler BT many years ago when I was young and dumb. It was easy to see it was hit in the gut, but there is no blood trail and no deer to be found. I'm totally fine with a 243/6 MM at long range on thin skinned game, but just with a better constructed, heavier bullet than the BT.