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6.5 Creedmoor Ammo Test [100-Yard Group Testing] - Which Is Best?

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Watch our 6.5 Creedmoor ammo test as we put 4 different rounds through the paces at 100 yards. The Hornady American Whitetail, Winchester Deer Season XP, Federal Non Typical, and Norma Whitetail. Which was the best 6.5 Creedmoor ammo to shoot out of our Bergara B14 Ridge for groups? Watch and see!
These are the 4 rounds we've been able to find in stores lately, so hopefully you can find them, too.
Start: 00:00
Hornady American Whitetail: 0:17
Winchester Deer Season XP: 1:28
Federal Non-Typical: 2:25
Norma Whitetail: 3:15
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@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Check out our linktree: linktr.ee/reviewthisthing Thanks so much for watching!

@alexcurry5541 2 года назад

These no malarkey ammo reviews are a breath of fresh air. Keep up the great work

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Thank you, Alex. We really appreciate that! Thank you for watching!

@a.joegevara3519 Год назад

That's how you find out what ammo *your* rifle likes best. Every gun is different. I just finished building my Howa 16" 6.5 heavy barrel, I'm ready to sight it in. Also building a 16" 6.5 upper for my DB10. I've been buying up a variety of ammo weights for testing. I'm hoping they both favor something similar.

@ReviewThisThing Год назад

Oh wow. That sounds great (and fun). It would definitely be nice if they like the same thing!

@caseroj6020 Год назад

That's what I have found during my testing at the range also. I tested Norma Whitetail against Browning BXR and Federal Non-Typical in 243 Win. The Norma Whitetail groups really well (.85 moa vs 1.0 moa for the Federal and the Browning BXR was like 2.5-3 moa) better than most of the other brands *but* there is one drawback with using it. The muzzle velocity for Norma ammo is usually (but not always) lower than other offerings. I guess it really depends on whether or not you plan to shoot at long distances. If you hunt in the forests of the Eastern United States then your shots are likely to be within 100 yards in which case Norma Whitetail offers compelling value. If you are hunting in the Western United States where longer distance shots are the norm then it might be worth using something with a higher muzzle velocity even if the groups are slightly larger.

@ReviewThisThing Год назад

Excellent point! Thank you!

@bricegreenville8141 2 года назад

Right to the point, so many could learn from this. Thanks

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Thank you so much!!!

@keithreese9636 Год назад

Interesting, Barnes shot high & right in my mod70s. But did group nice. Just goes to show how guns have different personalities. Enjoyed all your vids!

@ReviewThisThing Год назад

It 100% depends on the gun. Hopefully we can give people a start, but you have to shoot them yourself! Great point!

@jaysunkreuze1466 Год назад

It's all about harmonics. I choose my preferred ammo, 147grn Hornady eld-m, which grouped just a tad over an inch, and placed a stainless shaft collar just behind the muzzle brake. I shot 2 shot groups and moved the collar rearward about 1/16 inch until 2 bullets touch on paper. Then I shoot a 5 shot group to confirm. I now shoot 1/4 inch groups. So, just because a gun does t shoot a load good does t mean it's a bad round. Tune your barrel to your load, not your load to your barrel.

@ReviewThisThing Год назад

Excellent point! That’s definitely on the list.

@johnandrosemarywyatt977 2 года назад

Norma ammo is all I shoot now. Results like you had are pretty common. They are great at longer ranges also. The bullet is a quality cup and core soft point. They have a new bonded, tipped bullet coming called "Bondstrike" with a high bc and 143 gr. Expectations are high. I am not a reloader and it is extremely hard to find loaded accubonds which shoot well from my 6.5 also. Hopefully this load will give me options on a tough bullet.

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Awesome! Thank you so much for that info!

@kurtwilhelm3823 Месяц назад

That was a great video. I’m right now shopping for a weatherby in 6.5.

@ReviewThisThing Месяц назад

Thank you! Let us know what you think.

@kurtwilhelm3823 Месяц назад

@@ReviewThisThing will do!

@ReviewThisThing Месяц назад

@kurtwilhelm3823 👍🏻👍🏻

@mikesanythingoutdoors9153 3 месяца назад

Norma whitetail has been great with all my calibers

@ReviewThisThing 3 месяца назад

Great! Thank you. What kind of results have you had of game?

@suburbanlarper Год назад

I had similar results with Norma whitetail out of my ruger American predator. Sub half MOA 5 shot groups. Get about 1.25 moa with S&B 140

@ReviewThisThing Год назад

It’s crazy. We’ve seen the same with .308 out of the CVA Cascade and the Ruger American Predator. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--1C5gnuMe7w.html

@tufftrucker40 Год назад

@@ReviewThisThing I get sub moa with my 6.5 prc using norma match 143 grain..I was hoping this norma ammo would work with my 6.5 creedmoor after seeing this video I believe I will order a box or two and try it out

@ReviewThisThing Год назад

Nice! Let us know!

@davidrussell631 2 года назад

Not surprised one bit at your ranking! We’ve tried a LOT of different cartridges out of my son’s 270 Win, and the Norma and the Win Deer Season XP group the best. I’ve only shot the Norma 140g soft points out of my new Ruger 6.5, but they group so good I won’t try anything else, at least any you tried here. Thanks!

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Hey! That’s awesome! We’ve had excellent results with Hornady Precision Hunters, too. They just didn’t make the test. Thanks for letting us know!

@carlhansen8672 Год назад

I shoot the Ruger American Hunter with the Magpul stock. The Hornady Whitetail consistently shoots a

@ReviewThisThing Год назад

Let us know what you find!

@brenttuttle7268 2 года назад

I've had good results with several brands in 6.5. Hornaday, Winchester and Federal. Best results though were Barnes long range ammo. I haven't tried the Norma yet.

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Nice. Thank you. We have some of that Barnes but haven’t tried it. Thanks for watching!

@camonly849 2 года назад

Hornady*

@davidlaney8254 Год назад

Confirmed what I've seen for myself. Both the 140-grain Norma Whitetail and 125-grain Winchester XP shoot equal or better than the much more expensive 143-grain Hornaday ELD-X in all my 6.5 CM rifles.

@ReviewThisThing Год назад

Nice to know we’re not the only ones

@garyshrum2076 10 дней назад

Just wondering if you allowed the barrel to cool in between each group?

@ReviewThisThing 10 дней назад

It’s been a few years ago, and this was one of our first of these tests, but I don’t think we did unless it felt hot.

@Sirspanksalot Год назад

I’m zero’s at 200 and have learned my barrel loves 140g in lots of flavors.

@ReviewThisThing Год назад

Very nice! Which gun?

@truckert9729 2 года назад

Guess I might some Norma. I can actually find in stock online. I had held back because of some early reviews of it in 6.5. Guess they have it figured out from the comments on here.

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Norma seems to be shooting crazy good out of all the rifles we’ve tried. But, you’re right - super hard to find it! Thanks for watching!

@SeanF151 2 года назад

For deer I've been using the norma whitetail 140gr and it's been performing excellent. For elk I use the federal premium terminal ascent.

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

I’ve heard really good things about those. Have you had good success in elk with the 6.5 CM?

@SeanF151 2 года назад

@@ReviewThisThing yessir that was my concern as well with elk using my 6.5 was the rounds ability on large game. But after buddies of mine dropped a few elk with one shot with 143gr eld x I was sold. There are only a few rounds I would use on elk in 6.5 the eld x, the nosler partition or accubond and the federal terminal ascent. Also it's all shot placement but those 4 loads are devastating out of the 6.5 drops elk in their tracks

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

That’s awesome! Thank you!

@Martin-outdoors 2 года назад

Iv shot the same brands and Norma did great out to 500 yards can shoot a 3 and half inch group not bad for ammo that runs 27.99 around here.

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Oh wow! That’s great to know. Haven’t taken it past 300. Thanks!

@richvalentine1889 2 года назад

New to your page, great review on budget ammo,I would like to see you shoot some upper end ammo in a review. Like the 143 grain ELDX and others. Thank you

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Hey, Rich! Thank you for watching! We actually hunt with that round but didn’t include it in the review because we didn’t have any extra 😊 Stay tuned, though, for more!

@michaelrehberg5198 Год назад

My Tikka loves the Norma whitetail 140gr, I can consistently shoot ³/⁴ groups and under at 200yds. It's the only ammo I shoot anymore, big plus is that it's half the price of the other ammo.

@ReviewThisThing Год назад

Which Tikka do you have???

@michaelrehberg5198 Год назад

@@ReviewThisThing tx3 lite ss.

@ReviewThisThing Год назад

Niiice. How long have you had it?? What are your thoughts?

@michaelrehberg5198 Год назад

@@ReviewThisThing I've had for 3¹/² years now. When I was looking for a new rifle all the reviews I read had on Tikka's was nothing but positive, I originally wanted a Ruger 77 but the tikka was half the price and I definitely made the right decision. I'm 69 and have never owned a leftie rifle the tikka was retailing for $849 but I found mine NIB for $700 on gunbroker. I was shooting Hornaday precision but after losing 2 different deer to no blood trail but have had no issues with the Norma.

@michaelrehberg5198 Год назад

@@ReviewThisThing I really like the Tikka, it's light and extremely accurate. It shoots anything 139gr and up very well. Since switching to the Norma I've had no issues with lost deer, I've had 2 drop in there tracks and the farthest run has been under 50yds.

@82NDmedic 2 года назад

Great video guys!

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Thanks, Rudy! I appreciate you watching!

@newenglandrider3189 Год назад

Try the Federal Fusion 140gr the next time and let us know what ya think.

@ReviewThisThing Год назад

Will do!

@RockinRack 2 года назад

I haven't found anything that shoots outside of 3/4 groups. Most of the time I'm shooting one hole group which is what made me like 6.5 creedmoor

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

That’s awesome! Thank you!

@jimbo3615 Год назад

The very first shot of the day was the worst one. I wonder if that was a “clean bore” flyer. Would be curious to see you group that ammo again. Great video and review btw.

@ReviewThisThing Год назад

That’s a great point. This was our first effort at these types of videos. I feel like it would be interesting to do it again. Thank you so much for watching!

@jimbo3615 Год назад

@@ReviewThisThing Yeah, that rifle will obviously shoot well. I have a 6.5 CM in a CZ American Synthetic. I bought it used although I don’t think it had been fired because the guy that traded it put a new box of Remington corelokt ammo in it. That stuff shot absolutely terrible, like a 4 inch group so I had my son shoot it up just so I could reload it. His groups were the same and I wouldn’t have been comfortable hunting anything with it. Reloads will shoot sub MOA and that’s all it’s fed now.

@ReviewThisThing Год назад

Core Lokt’s are not what they used to be! He’s working on a reload for this gun right now.

@lovethehuntOutdoors 2 года назад

Very nice variety of ammo, keep up the great shooting and showing the results of the rifles preferences. I wonder if you've tried the Hornady Superformance rounds with the SST bullets? I just bought a new Savage 110 Apex Hunter XP and those rounds to try out along with some Nosler 140 tipped ammo. I would love to see either round in your rifle.

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Thanks so much, John! We haven’t tried those yet, but will have to if we can ever see them again 😬 Thanks for watching! Good luck with your Savage!

@lovethehuntOutdoors 2 года назад

@@ReviewThisThing Thank you, I have a channel its just us family grand kids if you like to pass the time. Love the Hunt use my name no one can find it.

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

I’ll check it out!

@guardianminifarm8005 2 года назад

Not too shabby.

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

And a lot of fun, too 😊

@topout26 2 года назад

Norma had boxes on Black Friday special for 32.00 Loaded up!

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Heck yeah!

@redeyebandit9791 2 года назад

I just wanna find the 200 round American Gunner cans again...

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

That would be nice!

@randychavez3874 Год назад

Love Norma

@ReviewThisThing Год назад

Haha yep! Seems to be great every time!

@IntensityR6 2 года назад

Thinking of trying out the Norma WT but do you know where I can find Hornady 143 Precision Hunter? PLEASEEE HELP lol

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

We’ve just gotten lucky and found them in a few stores here and there. Haven’t ordered them or anything like that.

@dennisgraham3087 2 года назад

So far my best results has been with 140gr Nosler RDF. half inch group @100 yards.

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Okay! We’re having a really hard time finding 6.5 CM, but if we find those, we may have to snag them!

@dennisgraham3087 2 года назад

@@ReviewThisThing thankfully. I have at least 3 different gun stores in my hometown. it's not ALOT !!! but enough of a variety to keep it interesting.

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

That’s pretty good for sure. Trying out different rounds is definitely fun!

@dennisgraham3087 2 года назад

@@ReviewThisThing I've been shooting Fiocchi 129gr, (decent results) Aquila 140gr ( not very good results) I also have some Barnes VOR-TX LR 127gr, that I need to retest. I'm kind of limited in how much much I can or want to spend on ammo. But I may get a few others to try out as well. There is some 6.5 available online as well that I've seen.

@dennisgraham3087 2 года назад

@@ReviewThisThing I admit that the 6.5 has really surprised me as to how gentle the recoil is vs the 308 or 30-06. or 7.62x54r.

@lavanice 2 года назад

120 grain TTSX, 129 grain lrx , 150 grain ABLR

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Haven’t tried the 150 grain!

@barclaypeoples6228 Год назад

Was the whitetail a cold bore shot?

@ReviewThisThing Год назад

The Hornady American Whitetail was the only cold bore.

@cliffkirby8570 2 года назад

I think you need to try hand loading, that gun don't like any of that stuff at 100 yards anyway

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

That does look like fun.

@BEAVER_MIND 2 года назад

Just high due to 200 zeros

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

You got it

@BEAVER_MIND 2 года назад

Good video

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

@@BEAVER_MIND thank you! And thank you for watching!

@alexmunn5321 2 года назад

That norma white tail ammo is pretty frigging impressive. Have seen in out of every common caliber and it seems great. I personally love the winchester xp in my 270 and 30/06. Buuuuuutttttt. I really want to try the Noma .. cant find it near me in Ontario .

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

We’ve definitely been impressed in our .308 and 6.5 CM for sure. Great accuracy. Check out normashooting . Sometimes that have some good deals.

@ls4.8frank 2 года назад

You can find it online, but it'll cost you to get it. With the Norma they damage rate to an animal within 100 yards is impressive. But you can't really knock the Winchester XP either so...

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

@@ls4.8frank you’re right on that. I DID find some online for the $44/box. It’s hard to pay that when the boxes I bought were $25 at a random out of town Walmart 🤦🏼‍♀️

@normlumsden9639 2 года назад

I wish you would have run those loads through a chronograph...

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Yeah. That would have been a good idea!

@alabamatyranthunter9404 2 года назад

What is better 143 grain or 129 grain

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Great question. I have to tell you that we hunt with the Hornady Precision Hunters, which are 143 grain, because last year that was the only box of 6.5 we could find. It did an amazing job on the deer, so that’s just what we’ve stuck with. (It’s not in this video). Stay tuned for Part II 😊

@kerryddepew674 10 месяцев назад

Re-name it the 6.5 man/bun.., LOL.

@ReviewThisThing 10 месяцев назад

😂

@obsidianblackhorse5589 2 года назад

Your first shot is off because it's on a different powder fouling.

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Thanks so much!

@judgedayan9934 22 дня назад

My sub $300 Savage Axis shoots better than that $1500 Begara.

@ReviewThisThing 22 дня назад

I’ve seen great things from the Savage for sure. It’s a $900 gun - and less when we bought it 3 years ago, but I totally get your point.

@IrnMaiden304 2 года назад

Best ammo, out of your rifle.

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

EXACTLY!!!

@fredbartlett4394 2 года назад

Still to hight at 100 ,u need to zero that gun in better ,if my 6.5 shot like that I'd sell it

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Always a work in progress. Thanks for watching!

@BEAVER_MIND 2 года назад

Winchester better

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

Yeah! They did pretty great. We just haven’t been able to find any more!

@ls4.8frank 2 года назад

@@ReviewThisThing I found 3 boxes at my nearest Academy and snatched them up and then went and bought 2 Savage Axis XP Youth 6.5 Creedmoor rifles. I started to buy a couple of boxes of the Norma ammo just a few minutes ago, but I didn't wanna pay another $60. Lol. 60 rounds of the Winchester XP that I got originally should do fine for a little while, especially since it only takes me 2 rounds to sight in a rifle.

@ls4.8frank 2 года назад

And the Norma did better by just a touch than the Winchester, but I was surprised at how well the Winchester XP actually did.

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

@@ls4.8frank that’s awesome! We still haven’t been able to find any more. Have fun with those Savages!!!

@ReviewThisThing 2 года назад

@@ls4.8frank they were definitely very close. Great shooting rounds!