Americana Outdoors E-Magazine - October 2020

to spend time and put that bullet where it matters to, to find the ultimate success.

Range time is SUPER important to discover which ammo performs thes best with your rifle.

Shelley Giesecke VP of Careco TV poses with her African Impala taken with the Thompson/Center Compass rifle chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor. I think in the end, the 6.5 Creedmoor is an excellent whitetail deer hunting round. I think if you’re making good shots and you’re using the right kind of bullets, you’re really going to be pleased with its performance in accuracy, low recoil and being a round that you can find on many shelves. I also think it’s a phenomenal long-range target shooting rifle. I think it’s far better than a .308 Winchester based on the data and based on the things that I’ve seen out there. So, when I look at the 6.5 Creedmoor, the haters are going to hate. But I promise you, I have seen it in action on quite a few of our hunts and I’m a believer.

think it’s perfect for a lot of your light, thin-skinned big game animals like African antelope, whitetail deer, etc. It is going to be right at the lower end of cartridges I wouldprobably pick for elk, however I’ve seen it even used for and it performed flawlessly and knocked them down. But once again, I think it’s just kind of right there at that threshold and that there are better choices for elk rounds. As I look at my experiences in regard to when it came time for me to kind of settle on a bullet that I liked we had shot a lot of different ones. I also read a lot of data, looked at a lot of different reviews, and when it was all said and done I had settled on the Hornady 143 grain ELD-X round that not only performed for me accuracy wise but also in the field. What I saw after dialing in and choosing that round was that we began to get immediate knockdowns, and by that, I mean animals dropping right there in their tracks on several whitetail hunts. We also took it with us to Africa where we saw it perform in one shot kills on warthogs, kudu and impalas. I mean, it was one shot, one kill type round. However, when you talk to a lot of professional hunters over there (and we did) , they’re going to talk about the 6.5 Creedmoor is maybe not good enough for wildebeest and animals like that and larger such as Eland and Zebra - some of those tougher skinned animals. Ultimately, you have got

Wade poses with one of his recent bucks from the 2020 deer season holding his T/C Compass Rifle chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor that dropped this buck right where he stood.