Why shoot a sissy rifle?

[WYO300RUM]

I'm hoping everyone guessed I was kidding well maybe....

 

[Teekerguy]

I'm hoping everyone guessed I was kidding

With a name like 300RUM you're making us sissy gun owners feel very self conscious

 

[WYO300RUM]

With a name like 300RUM you're making us sissy gun owners feel very self conscious

I do have a brake on my 6.5 PRC Ridgeline but came that way.

 

[crashlanding]

I'm hoping everyone guessed I was kidding well maybe....

I had to throw in the obligatory remark

 

[memtb]

Dang this has been a fun one.

I just wanna know

Is there just 2 kinds of people out there, ones that do own 6.5s and ones that are thinking of owning a 6.5???????

We actually do have one…….though, it's a 6.5-284. I put it in the gun safe so our other rifles have something to laugh at! Good humor keeps em happy! memtb

 

[Teekerguy]

I do have a brake on my 6.5 PRC Ridgeline but came that way.

shooooot PRC your dialed that's manly AF!…..even with a sissy brake on it

 

[WYO300RUM]

We actually do have one…….though, it's a 6.5-284. I put it in the gun safe so our other rifles have something to laugh at! Good humor keeps em happy! memtb

I love my 6.5 PRC and 6.5x284. My 6.5 Creeds... Well , I like them. I like all cartridges!

 

[birddog 68]

I'm shopping for a muzzle brake for my Tikka 6.5 Creed. It's pretty rough on my shoulder and makes me flinch. I was thinking of an APA Fat Bastard . Any suggestions...?

If the brake isn't enough you may want to look at reduced loads with lighter bullets.

 

[WYO300RUM]

shooooot PRC your dialed that's manly AF!…..even with a sissy brake on it

I even used to live in Kommiefornia like you !
Can't get more Manley than that !

 

[WYO300RUM]

If the brake isn't enough you may want to look at reduced loads with lighter bullets.

I know you know me but I'll play along. I got a couple to bite I noticed I stopped getting email notifications from this thread after page 11. WTH ?

 

[Northkill]

Yeah, I started going to 17 cal sabots in my Creed. Just too much damage on stuff. Got tired of getting impact on critters and going to look for em and nothing there to find... (couldn't possibly have walked away from a Creed hit)

 

[Teekerguy]

If the brake isn't enough you may want to look at reduced loads with lighter bullets.

 

[Victor3Ranger1]

To be fair, don't most all critters drop in their tracks? Even if they run off after the shot? Except for maybe flying birds or small, lightweight vermin like Prairie Dogs which rarely drop where they were standing?

not according to the needmore push, only they can do that

 

[Teri Anne]

I would like to say, without any disrespect or argumentative conversation towards you, that I watched a guy in Colorado shoot in 100 yard increments out to 2000 yards one shot one hit. I have a range at home I shoot regularly out to a mile. My longest shot so far is 700 yards at a whitetail. One shot no step dead. I would say not the normal guy should do this. But with lots of practice it really is doable. Having your own range really helps also reading wind knowing distance and knowing deer movement. My 700 yard shot was 5 feet from 700 yard plate.
Anyway thanks for your input and thanks to you all that served to let me be able to enjoy doing this!

Thank you for this information. My one question is, What size are the targets used at each range? I have watched videos of people trying to hit 8 x 10 or larger targets out at extreme ranges and being happy with one hit out of 20 shots. The advantage of having the whitetail five feet from your regular 700 yard target was a plus, known distance and known dope for the shot makes it much easier to make a shot like this. Regardless, Congratulations on the shot.

Now for a last question, If you were not on your home range at a known distance, knowing what it took to hit that target, what do you honestly think of the chances of making that shot somewhere else without knowing all the variables?