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I am a fan of both. Each cartridge fills a pretty small niche in your line up though. Not really much you could do with either one that you couldn't do with one of your 6.5's and your 7mm mag, I also know you got the big 30's covered as well. That being said I would say you have elk and deer pretty well covered up. I would seriously consider keeping a 25 in the line up or even a hot rod 6mm of some sort. That way you have the varmints to deer spectrum covered up as well. You can get pretty creative and do a 257 Roberts improved which would give you 25-06 performance in a nice efficient package. 7x57 Ackley would also be a nice option in a 7mm with performance very similar to the .280 in an efficient package as well.

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Ease of loading and the simple fact that there are numerous options in factory rifles as well as match quality factory ammo puts the Creedmoor in a class of its own. It's following is only getting stronger and with that more and more options available. It doesn't do anything better than any of the other 6.5's mentioned other than it was designed to fit a standard magazine with the 140 class bullets. I for one don't really understand the hype with the cartridge but it does do everything pretty well. Accuracy is great, velocity matches the old swede, ammo is available just about everywhere, great bullet selection from 107gr all the way to 160, barrel life is very good and it is very deadly even at long ranges. Just about every major rifle maker is offering a model chambered in the Creedmoor so it really boils down to what one has the features you like best. An 8 twist barrel which is pretty much standard for a 6.5 will handle just about any bullet you can throw at it and as far as ease of reloading, I haven't found it to be any better than any other 6.5 cartridge out there as they are all pretty easy to tune. I vote Creed just because you have more options.

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The triggers you have are easily tuned down to 2lbs and can be very nice triggers for hunting situations. If the extra half a pound is worth $140 put a Timney in it.

Jim, put them on the scale and you will see why they don't shoot worth a darn. Only thing I use them for is a cheap barrel break in bullet or fire forming. I have seen differences in bullet weight by up to three grains within the same box of 100. The .30 cal 150s have consistently been the worst I have encountered with the biggest spread but I have seen some big variances in the 6.5's and 7mms as well. Most bullets even the cheap bulk Remington or Winchester stuff will be within a half grain and most of your big name bullets like Berger, Sierra and Nosler will be within .2 or less, generally less. To be fair the SST line is the only line of bullets from Hornady that I have had this problem with. Try separating them by weight and see if anything improves.

The BR Norma is throated for longer heavier bullets and the Remington is throated for the lighter weights typically used in 100yd bench rest.

If you are talking about setting it up like a Savage the barrel nut will secure the lug in place, no need for pins or epoxy. Even if you are not planning on using a barrel nut system the shoulder on the barrel will secure the lug just fine as well. Every lug on factory 700s isn't pinned or attached to the receiver in anyway, just pinched together between the shoulder on the barrel and the receiver face.

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or is it saving you way too much Yeah lex, just start thinking like a woman. You only spent $150 when you could have spent $200. So you didn't spend $150 you saved $50. My wife keeps telling me I saved money all the time.

What Lance said. You are giving up a lot of potential in that RUM. Shooting 180 Barnes in the 300 rum is like buying 3/4 ton 4x4 diesel truck to haul around a quad. You have the potential to haul bigger and better things but you aren't.

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What load are you running in the RUM? If you are not running a heavy high BC bullet in the RUM you really are not doing anything the 7mm isn't capable of matching if not coming very close. Pick which ever one you can shoot the best and more comfortable with.

If the lower class wants to make more money perhaps they should work hard, learn a skill and get a better job. Quit smoking the dope, put the beer bottle down and apply themselves. There are plenty of good paying jobs around that don't require a college education, just a good work ethic, and a clean piss test. Both of which, unfortunately, is hard to come by these days. Not all business owners are millionaires either, A lot of them struggle to keep the lights on just like the rest of us. Small business owners are probably the hardest working people on the planet, they don't have sick days or weekends its full time all the time and that's what it takes to fulfill the American Dream. Every big business out there started out as a small business and through hard work and smart business practices were able to be successful and grow and make money. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. No, we can't all be rich but we can all work hard for an honest wage and most of the time that requires starting at the bottom making minimum wage and working our way up to that. The problem today is everyone feels entitled to a wage that provides a comfortable living without having to work for it.

a 7mm mag will require around 24-28 moa to get to 1000 depending on bullet choice and velocity. With a 20moa rail you should be fine but if you wanted a little insurance you could always use Burris signature zee rings with the pos align inserts that have another available 20 moa available in 5 moa increments to use if you need it. That being said the only thing I would warn against the Nikon scopes is anything over 14 power generally has 1/8 minute adjustments. This makes dialing anything past 500 or so very challenging as you start getting into multiple revolutions of the turrets. I have a 6-18x40 buckmaster that I love but I hate the 1/8 adjustments.

You would probably be more than happy with the rifle basix Sav-1 then. I have a couple of those in some hunting rigs and I am very happy with them. The triggers break nice and clean and for the cost they are very hard to beat for a Savage. I really like their Ruger M77 triggers as well in fact, I prefer them over the Timney in a Ruger.

I have a number of Savages and I think I have tried just about every aftermarket trigger out there. The SSS is probably my favorite and you can find them from time to time over on Savage shooters forum fairly regular. My next favorite is probably the rifle basix. They make two different options and the Sav-1 is adjustable down to 2lbs and is a great trigger for a hunting rifle. They also make a Sav-2 that can be adjusted down to just over a pound I think and is more for benchrest type shooting. The latter probably being the most comparable to the Calvin Elite as far as feel goes.

For off the shelf quality, the Tikka is where it's at and if it were me I would pick up the T3 in 6.5x55. In a modern action, it will out perform the Creed and come real close to the 6.5-284 while not using any more powder than the Creed. High quality Lapua brass is cheap and easy to get and it will just plain shoot with a variety of different powders. It's probably one of the easiest cartridges to load for and will give you the half moa you are seeking and then some.

With my experience in the civil engineering side of things, I would bet the government owns more than enough "easement" or "Right-of-Way" along the border to construct just about anything they want. If anything a few temporary construction easements may be needed but those are generally cost free besides a recording fee at the proper county recorders office.

Go with a Sierra Game King, 65gr if your twist will allow it but the 55gr will work. Great bullets that will provide good ballistic performance as well as good terminal performance. Coues are not very big and only 10 or 12 inches wide through the vitals and I much rather a bullet that will expand or mushroom a bit and dump some energy rather than poke a small caliber hole. I have seen coyotes shot with Barnes bullets that ended up looking like swiss cheese before they finally died from exhaustion and blood loss. A Coues is not much bigger and will run a lot further.

That's really about it. The ability to simply fire form .270 brass and go. No need for trimming to length. performance wise you will be hard pressed to find any notable difference between them.

Yes, this is normally called the cream of wheat method as most of the time this is what people use for this process. I have done it in the past but have since moved to just fireforming cases as I do barrel break in. I like to break in with at least 50 rounds and I use a cheap bullet like a Hornady SST in the same weight that I am wanting to run pick a max load of the parent cartridge and go to the range. Accuracy is generally pretty good and when your done you have 50 fully formed cases to begin serious load development with. If you want more cases than 50 I generally load some more fireform loads and save them for when its time to clean the barrel and then fire two or three of them to foul the barrel with. Eventually, you end up with as many cases you want and not really wasting any barrel life.

Yeah bergers can be a bit finicky but I have seen them shoot really well with lots of jump. You might also try the hybrids or the new elite hunters they just come out with with better results than the Vlds. I finished up a Ruger in 6.5-06 Ackley just before I did yours and it shot the hybrids really well with just about any powder and charge I put through it and the Ruger's have a notoriously short mag length.

Great write up! It looks like that is coming along nicely. In the 6.5-06 Ackley that I built I had much better accuracy after I turned about .002" off the necks and switched to Magnum primers.That seemed to fix the flyer problem for me. The load I settled on was 57.5gr of H4831 and a CCI magnum primers with 140 bergers at mag length. Velocity is right at 3175fps with this load.

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