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The best part of this whole thing is that this dude is out shooting deer and pigs. Meanwhile all you dudes are busy measuring peckers on the internet and trying to one up each other with who can claim the most obscure 6.5 cartridge.

Yeah or selling them on Gunbroker for 4X what he bought them here for lol. I guess either way he wins. That doesn’t mean everyone else can’t have a little fun in the meantime though. For the most obscure 6.5 name, I like the 6.5BB (6.5 Bitch Biscuit).

All the time at the range, I get the "what caliber are you shootin' there?" I say, "6.5 Sherman Short", or "6.5 SLR", or "6 Creedmoor", and I ALWAYS get, "Oh, 6.5 Creedmoor? Yeah, them are great. I got me a Savage 6.5 Creedmoor that shoots dime sized groups." Yeah....right....

if you have not yet tagged out be east of Capps Ranch tuesday morning at daylight. lee

My dad is looking for this exact scope. I am in. Pm sent.

Looks like me at the 7th grade dances...

Either 6.5-06AI or .280AI.

Some of you are ill. Some of you are struggling. Some of you I've argued with. Some of you are friends. And some are doing well. To ALL OF YOU : MY VERY BEST WISHES FOR HEALTH, SAFETY, PROSPERITY, AND HAPPINESS. YOUR GOD'S (KARMA, MURPHY'S, or WHATEVER YOUR BELIEF) LOVE BE YOURS. Russ Thank you ALL!

The 28 Nosler is a true barrel burner. In my opinion, it is strictly a hunting rifle cartridge. Barrel life is anywhere from 400-1000 depending on how hard you run it. 180s at 3150-3200, 195s at 3050-3150. Elk crusher, deer destroyer. Fast, flat, freight train. .280AI will get you 1200-2000+ depending on your load. 2-3x the barrel life. 160s @ 2900-3000+, 180s @ 2850-2950+. Burns up to 30gr less powder, shorter OAL fits in a LA easier, no bolt mods, far less muzzle blast and recoil too.

Wow a new breed of deer in the tortolitas. Maybe a whitetail/horse.

Lol! No doubt. Gotta love the optimism of youth

shoot man. U better buy them. Noone else seems interested

It does bring home some bad memories.

The m&p shield 9

My choice would be 26" with either. 6.5mm 1:7.5" twist for everything from the 140s at 3150 up to 3200, to the 150/156/160 at 3050-3100ish. 7mm 1:8.5" or 1:9". 1:9" will run you the 160 and up to the 175 Elite class of bullets great, 1:8.5" will spin the 180-184 better. If you plan to shoot above the 180s, like the 190 LR Hyb or 195 EOL, go 1:8". Will be slower MVs, but BC and kinetic energy/sectional density are great. I run a 26" 1:9" in my .280AI. 175 Elite @ 2986 suppressed. Also have a very accurate 160 TMK load at 2996fps at a moderate load. I have a couple 6.5SSs, the SA version of the 6.5-06AI. Just like the 7SAUM/.280AI pair. Nearly identical ballistics in far different packages. Long and lean vs short and fat.

You might want to consider the 280 AI. I already have one as my main hunting rifle so that’s why I would go with the 30-06 AI. My reason for the 30-06 AI is more novelty than practicality. The 280 AI is much more practical.

Lol, no sir I do not. Nor do I wear Timberlands, flannel shirts for style or have a 6.5 Creedmoor. I still think the term “bitch biscuit” is the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time 😂

And I'm not talking about the current state of the nation. I knew the odds of me drawing a sheep tag were slim to none, but it happened in 2019. The odds of what happened on my deer hunt this past weekend however, had to be far slimmer and certainly unbelievable without proof. Whether the destination of the day or the particular part of a ridge or canyon, I have told myself a hundred times "that is where you're going to find a lion." With an abundance of hunting pressure on opening day of the third coues hunt in the unit, I went 2.5 miles to the deepest and darkest canyon available from my hunt party's area before sunrise on Saturday. The drainage of the canyon was surprisingly void of deer at first light, so my partner and I kept on the last several hundred yards up a shale face that crested into one of the steepest and biggest Google Earth tricks that I've ever played on myself. I immediately thought, "crap it is going to be tough to find a buck in here, but this HAS to be lion country." One tucked in doe and 5 minutes later, and I had finally found what I'd been dreaming of every day on the mountain for the last 18 years. There sunning sideways on a large boulder along a steep draw, stretched out my first glassed lion with no idea we had slipped into its lair. Unbelievable. The excitement nearly doubled when my rangefinder read a number starting with one of a few magical digits, 4. With the state of cat and a series of boulders and rock faces to navigate through, I closed the number to 400 yards even and set up prone. I waited for an hour and a half as it roll occasionally from side to side. I tried to guess how everything would play out including when, how and for how long it would get up for a stretch, but I was in no mans land. I knew nothing first hand about their daytime behavior and came to the conclusion it could be hours before anything changed. With a solid rest, no kittens joining the party and a forecast of high winds picking up well before noon, it was time to put all the load and range work to use. Timed to a break in the early morning gusts, 2 quick reports and a cloud of dust rising from the rock pile beneath is all that could be seen. For the first time ever, the deer tag in my pocket didn't matter anymore. We found 3 kills all within a few hundred yards. Upon arrival, I feared the lion had crawled its way into a hole that I was going to have to dig out similar to several javelina over the years. But luck continued on my side. My first lion, a 2-3 year-old female. Another first was my young cousin's buck on Friday, his first day ever hunting. Obvious first timer with his headlamp still on his head at noon. I hadn't noticed all day or when taking the photos either! Haha. It was also my first weekend with a new pack and I couldn't have carried the lion out like I did for camp to appreciate without it. A buck on Friday and a 80-90 pound lion on Saturday - what a way to break it in. The Savage LWH has also taken a sheep, coues and lion all within the last year with the 6.5 ELD-X doing its job 3/3, dead right there. And the most unbelievable part? After 18 years behind binoculars across the state with zero lions spotted, a second lion on Sunday after creeping into just 380 yards. It didn't have a care in the world, like it knew none of us had another tag in our pocket. We watched it along with deer a couple hundred yards to both sides for an hour before we let it lay and moved along. I've always heard "anything can happen" when it comes to hunting, and after the last 2 years, it isn't so unbelievable anymore.

Somehow people hear 6.5 and then it’s automatically a Creedmoor. Makes no sense to me, but that’s what some think. I’ve told people about my 6.5-284 and they still hear 6.5 Creedmoor, wtf? I was at the range shooting my suppressed 6mm Creed when a guy asked what I was shooting. I told him a 6 Creedmoor and somehow his response was” Oh a 6.5 Creedmoor, cool man. Given what the 6.5 man bun has turned into I am embarrassed to call it a Creedmoor and I just make up names for my 6Creed. Like a 6mm Peterson, or 6CR. Easier that way.

As one who owns 3 - 6.5’s, not one a CM, I think you are wrong. I must be an outlier.

Honestly a friend told me to go to the classified section here to search for ammo and it paid off. Pics will follow after the trip. I am not a trophy hunter, just a guy who loves to teach the next generation. Taught hundreds of kids to fish through a club I ran and helped a dozen or so kids in the last three years harvest their first animal. I have only hunted about 6 years. It was not meant to be a hit and run but most chat boards tend to have very combative members I don’t have time for lol

Yeah that sums us up pretty good spot on

Utility is always the goal. Mine has a 6-8" scar in the side. Grandpa was hunting, I believe moose when a griz came in to camp and scared the horses. He had the rifle next to his leg. In the panic, one of the horses kicked the rifle, leaving the big scar. Better the rifle than his leg! Unfortunately, my dad went through some tough times recently, and in a moment of weakness, pawned it. I found out which pawn, and went down there. Told them the family connection, ar the time I didn't have much money.. (ex wife was good at that). They sold it back to me. They still made money, but were fair with me. My dad killed his one and only elk with it, and I killed my one and only lion with it.

I refinished the stock on my Grandpa’s 721 when I was in High School. Here is a pic from when it was in progress.