Thread: Light Varmint/Target Rifle ideas

Originally Posted by johnd

Going back to the sixty five Creedmoor idea, I see it being used more and more as a light deer cartridge with a bigger range of projectiles than the 6 mm cases.

If looking at the varmint style profiles they get a bit heavier for a carry gun. But if you are looking for something like a CTR with a carbon stock I have one available.

The varmint barrelled Howa I have with adjustable Boyds stock is bloody heavy. But with a double sling its fine to trudge around the hills with. The weight works very much to my advantage, as the rifle’s got fantastic stability on a good bipod for target acquisition and a steady aim, its worth every gram. Its rock solid, always the first thing that guys used to light rifles comment on. And the accuracy is deadly. So its a plus, and a minus, the weight. For me, for what that rifle is designed to do (300m-600m+ goat extermination) the stability trumps the carry weight, but for others with different applications it would be the other way round.

So yesterday I spent a bit of time playing with the 6mm Creedmoor idea. I looked at what Berger, Sierra, Hornady have brought out so far in 6mm and concluded that for @Tentman’s application, there’s a lot of potential. The potential problem is at the lower bullet weights, with maybe excessive jump. I’d want to measure a chamber with some 75gr VMax and 85gr GameKings to see how much bullet would be seated in the case if set to a normal jump. Probably not a lot. But if you decided to stick with a one bullet rig instead of messing around with several projectiles, then the 108gr ELD-M or 95gr TMK would be pretty exceptional I reckon. They’d fly a helluva long way very accurately, and deal max damage to all manner of varmints, and deer.