10-20-2011, 03:45 PM
patdaly Wrote:Give the Savage 12LRP in either 6.5 Creedmore or .260 Remy a look. Fortier ran a stock 6.5 Creed. with Hornaday factory ammo thru its paces and got something stupid like a .3 or .4 print at 100. You can get them on Gunbroker for under 900 new.
The Creedmore limits you to one source of brass...Hornady. I like Hornady products, and use them a lot. When it comes to brass, there are much better out there, so .260 Rem has much more appeal to the hand-loader, unless you can afford to load 1-time and throw the Hornady brass away. I get .3-.4 MOA accuracy with my .260 Auto-loader shooting 5-round groups, not 3-round, and any custom barrel/action/ammunition combination will yield sub 1/2 MOA loads in any of the (3) 6.5mm cartridges derived from the .308..i.e., the .260 Rem, 6.5x47 Lapua, and 6.5 Creedmoor. If you were to choose one of these over the .260 Rem, the Lapua would be the way to go, as it sucks less powder, and yields impressive velocities with its higher pressure limitations than either.
My partner had a custom RPA built in 6.5x47 Lapua, with a 25" barrel, and gets over 3000fps pushing the 140gr Berger VLD's. As I spotted for him in our last competition, he made numerous, consecutive, 1st-round hits on man-sized pop-up silhouettes at 900m in coastal wind conditions like it was fun with that rifle...truly impressive.