Lightweight hunter 7mm-08 or 6.5 creedmoor?

[topher]

racer55, the reviews i have read are directed mostly to the barrel length being too short or too thin causing whip? i just want a riffle to hunt with, far from being a marksman and not sure what whip is! lol

[racer55]

I expect that it would be just fine for hunting,people are critical of the Axis series but I bet they have dropped a tremendous amount of game none the less.

Most every rifle is capable of better accuracy than most shooters.

[want2ride]

I have been around firearms my entire life.... but I have never heard of whip. What is that?

[adam38654]

Barrel harmonics. When you fire a gun the barrel literally whips up and down. Not as much on a heavy barrel. Watch a slow motion video of an ak47 firing.

But I have seen .25 moa groups from skinny sporter barrels They just start to wander once they heat up.

[Zero333]

In my area of Ontario Canada we have a caliber restriction on small game rifle hunting-nothing bigger than .275.
With that in mind the creedmoor is the choice for both large and small game here or anywhere.

I assume you're in the same area as me, South Western Ontario. And yes anything bigger than 277 cal is not allowed for small game and for deer hunting we can only use bows, muzzle loaders or shotguns. No centerfire rifles of any kind unless it's a control hunt.

Area between London and Tillsonburg might be the densest deer population in the world. I've seen plenty of monsters, tho I only hunt deer farther north where I can use my rifles.

[Zero333]

I have a 7mm08 mod 11. Scoped weights 7.25 lbs and has a sharp kick to it. I find its recoil no different than from a 308win except a bit more snappy.

[Robinhood]

I have a 7mm08 mod 11. Scoped weights 7.25 lbs and has a sharp kick to it. I find its recoil no different than from a 308win except a bit more snappy. I find that different powders have an impact on this. Lighter guns especially. I like 41 grains of R15 with a 140 SGK in my 7 lb rig. 4064 and Varget feel different. When I go to a 150 or heavier I us Reloder 17 and it doesn't kick at all compared to a 165 gr in 308 in an 8lb rifle.

[MDQDM]

My vote is 7mm-08. Though I'm partial to it. I have one for my TC Encore, and love it. Worked great during a caribou trip a few years back. Longest shot was 180 yards and dropped the caribou in its tracks. Recently I was going to rechamber a 308 to a 6.5cm but figured it was to closely related to the 7mm-08. So I went down to the 223 wylde insted. Cant say i have shot a deer with the 7mm-08, but would expect it to do a good job.

[Zero333]

I find that different powders have an impact on this. Lighter guns especially. I like 41 grains of R15 with a 140 SGK in my 7 lb rig. 4064 and Varget feel different. When I go to a 150 or heavier I us Reloder 17 and it doesn't kick at all compared to a 165 gr in 308 in an 8lb rifle.

Thanks for the tip RH ! I might try working up a load with RL-15 sometime and see how it goes. This being a hunting rifle it's not a priority to mess around with.