New to me 6.5 Creedmoor

[beaueel]

So my wife just bought me a slightly used Nosler M48 Liberty (I think, my research tells me that's what it is) in 6.5 Creedmoor, so I'm part of that crowd now. My questions are what bullet should I shoot out of this thing? I bought brass already(200 pieces),I have primers, pretty sure I have a powder that will work. I just can't decide what bullet to use or where the hell to find them at. I haven't picked up a scope for it yet but I'll be ordering a Leupold VX-5 3-15x44 as soon as Leupold makes one, so I have time to decide and scour the internet looking for bullets to shoot. Thanks for your replies.

What is the twist ?

 

[chav0_12]

My grandson and I have taken a lot of game ( antelope-WT deer- feral hogs ) with the 129 grain Nosler Accubond, I personally would not hesitate to pull the trigger on an elk with this bullet under normal ranges for the caliber. My grandson shot one antelope at 550 yards with immediate results.

Yeah I was looking at those on the Nosler site, figured since it's a Nosler rifle it might not be a terrible thing to pay them some respect and shoot their bullet out of it. But then I noticed the price, for what they wanted $50 for a year or two ago they want in the $80s for. I don't think it's that good if a bullet, but if it's what I end up being able to find then I'll try it. I have in-stock notifications everywhere I could think of.

 

[chav0_12]

What is the twist ?

I assume it's the SAAMi standard 8 twist. It's a factory Nosler barrel on it and I can't imagine they would've done anything different.

 

[Quintus]

The Liberty rifles are a very nice hunting rig, congrats! We have had great performance from the 130 Tipped Gamekings, 125 Partitions, 130 Berger VLDH, and 130 and 140 Accubonds. I am working with the 121HH right now and got to 3150FPS with a good node at 3120. I have yet to kill anything with the Hammer yet though.

 

[adam]

What 140s are you shooting? That's the range I was looking at. There's a store near me that has some 140gr ELD-Ms in stock but I didn't really want to shoot a match bullet.

140 eldm loads from hornaday run 2725 in most guns and have shown consistantly run 1/4-1/3 moa out to distances beyond 1100 yards depending on your elevation. they are the new heat resistant polymer tip in the old a-max (which had a reasonable long range following back in the day).
Half a dozen people I hunt with have similar results across 4 platforms. Several large mule deer taken between 75-650 yards. Great performance in that range. Duplicate the load with a max charge of H4350 and 210m primers. Highly recommended load at those ranges.

 

[chav0_12]

The Liberty rifles are a very nice hunting rig, congrats! We have had great performance from the 130 Tipped Gamekings, 125 Partitions, 130 Berger VLDH, and 130 and 140 Accubonds. I am working with the 121HH right now and got to 3150FPS with a good node at 3120. I have yet to kill anything with the Hammer yet though.

What powder are you using behind that HH? Steve told me to use Varget behind the 124, and that's the only powder I have that I'm really low on.

 

[Muledeerhuntingfreak]

Man sometimes this phone reminds just ****es me off when I am speaking to it trying to put words out there I do not type well H4350 With a elder 143 I also just picked up some nosler 140 grains that I hope shoot well also I have not worked up a load on those yet

 

[chav0_12]

I wish my wife would buy me things like that M48...

Well it's an anniversary gift. She told me she was going to buy me a new gun at a "reasonable price" I wasn't sure what that meant so I went shopping and had a couple different options. Luckily this was on consignment and they took $1k for it. I asked her for a Swarovski spotting scope and she laughed at me when she saw how much they were.

 

[Clem Bronkoski]

I load up my CM with H4350 and Hornady 143 gr ELDX bullets and get .25 moa accuracy with the load I developed over about a 6 month period thanks to the help of several members in here. Because of them my entire load development process has changed and now I have several rifles that shoot sub MOA under all conditions I've shot them in.

 

[jfolanddvm]

I had your same issue. I have Defiance action with a #4 BRUX barrel that I want to shoot silhouette and hunt whitetails with. I had powder, cases (1 fired Hornady and Lapua), primers and lots of H4350. The smith cut the chamber specifically with the Hornady 140 ELD-M ammo in mind. I found NOS 140 BT "hunting" and Sierra 142 match bullets. I found that the Sierras liked B-O of 3.141 with 40.7gr H4350 & the NOS BT hunting 41.5 gr H4350 with same 3.141 B-O seating. About loaded up all 250 of the NOS bullets I bought and will try and by a bunch of any NOS, Hornady or Sierra Game King/SST/Ballistic Tip/Accubond in 140-129 grain I find.

3.141 base to ogive may be a misprint? 6.5 cm case length is 1.920" and 140 eldm bullet length is 1.374". That adds up to 3.294" which only leaves .153" for seating if you are talking OAL. I don't think that would even get you past the boat tail. I don't think it would even touch the top of the case if measured to ogive. ???

 

[huntsman22]

I can't believe none of these guys have taught you the creed owners secret handshake yet......

 

[Shane Lindsey]

I recently sold my 6.5cm on here and my 'man bun' seems to have disappeared…

No brother, it just suddenly grew into a pony tail...

 

[Quintus]

What powder are you using behind that HH? Steve told me to use Varget behind the 124, and that's the only powder I have that I'm really low on.

I too am low on Varget so I am running Super Performance. The top of my ladder was 49.5 grains at 3165fps with no detectable pressure in a 22" Weatherby Carbonmark. 48.5 is giving me 3120 and it groups well so I am going to get SD data as soon as it's not 90 degrees out.

 

[Stammster]

6.5 Creed is just a gateway drug to 6.5 PRC anyway, unless you are a woman or kid.