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.