6.5 Creedmoor Ammunition | A Reloader’s Perspective

By Bob Shell

The 6.5 Creedmoor is a centerfire rifle cartridge that has long-range potential due to high ballistic coefficient. The ammunition has a good selection of bullets from 85 to 160 grains in various styles. The 6.5 Creedmoor cartridge length of 2.825 is capable of chambering in short-action bolt rifles and AR-10 semi-automatic rifles.

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- The 6.5 mm has been around in some form since the early 1890s in various countries using it for their rifles. At that time bullets and powders were not as good as today. Fouling and dirty powder and primers were some of the problems with small calibers of the day.

Two of the earlier 6.5mm rounds were the 6.5 Dutch and Carcano. One of the complaints was the lack of stopping power. Most of them used a 160 gr. RN-FMJ or a similar weight. They gave good penetration but only made a small hole in a soldier. Uruguay even had some Mauser model 71s re-barreled to a 6.5 known as the Daudeteau. The French navy also used it in the 1890s for a few years. The Japanese military used it for years. Some other countries either used or tried it at one time. …Read the Rest

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