Lets try it again

[Bill]

Last month I put a DPMS AR-15 on Lay-a-way. After everything that happened, Wash machine broke down, finishing the family room, went on vacation etc. I decided to cancel out on it.
Well last week I had my 10th anniversary with the company and low and behold I received a $200 gift card from them.
I have some points built up on my Cabela's card and after I get everything straightened out I shouldn't have to pay much money out of pocket for a new gun I got in.
I ended up buying a Savage mod 12 LRP in 6.5 Creedmore. This is the center feed, box magazine, target action, target trigger and has a Very heavy 26" barrel and H.S. Precision stock. I friend of mine knows a gunsmith that deals with Savage take off barrels and the guy has a take off barrel for the same exact gun in .260 Rem. So I am thinking that I might just contact him and see if I can trade the Creedmore barrel for the .260 Rem barrel. I looked at his list of barrels and he also has a .223 Rem barrel in the same exact size but it Stainless steel. and with only a bolt face change and buying a box magazine for the .223 Rem I can change calibers back and forth and have a very heavy switch barrel gun. If that trade don't work I might have to work a bit to find brass but with Hornaday making it I should be able to get it up and running fairly quickly. One of the guys I work with has the same exact gun and a while back I was watching him shoot a 12" steel plate at 1150 yds using a 120 grain A-Max bulllet. So in the end either way I should have another long range gun up and running soon. I'm not totally sold on the Creedmore but if it does like the rest of them I have seen do It should make for one heck of a long range prairie dog gun.

[Jack]

Don't you love those Cabela's points!

[Bill]

Its my discount I get that I love even more Jack. ;D ;D ;D
After studying the 6.5 Creedmore ballistics and what their doing with it I decided it is going to stay a 6.5 Creedmore. I'm thinking that this might just take the place of my workhorse .308 win for long range target work. Shoots flatter and faster with less recoil. Who knows, it might get me that 1500 yd PD

[deputydon]

Always kinda liked that 6.5 Creedmore round......

[Bill]

I really doubt that it will be a 1000 yd deer rifle but I think it can do 800 with the right bullet. Seems that a lot of guys are using the 130 grain bullet to do it.
Its probably going to be the gun I use to show you what its like to hit a gallon jug at 1000 yds Dep Don. If I ever get the chance to come up there and shoot across that canyon we talk about. One of the other guys I shoot with once in a while is having no problem banging a steel plate at 1150 yds and its 12X16"s. He says it is almost boringly accurate. This gun I bought is exactly the same gun.
I am ordering a new bolt face for it from
www.pacifictoolandgauge.com/pdf/ptg_catalog_08.pdf
After looking at their replacement bolt bodies with the spiral fluting I might even do one of those. Might even make things a bit more accurate than it should be. Wish they made magnum bolt faces as it would be fun to turn this gun into a .338 Edge for a while.