Not to mention who wants to walk through the woods with a 24” barreled rifle? How about a suppressed 24” barrel so you don’t end up with permanent hearing loss? Nope. In the trees, a deer or elk could be 20 yards away and you’d be hard pressed to see one, let alone get a shot. Why? Because up in the part of Idaho where I live the only shots you get are in clear cuts. Just about the maximum distance I could have shot. By way of example, the elk I shot last year was just over 100 yards away. Most game is taken anywhere from 50 to 250-300 yards. Most hunters lack not only that skill to take an ethical shot at that range, but frankly the opportunity. While some of my friends have dropped large game, including elk, with shots at over 1,100 yards, that’s not the norm. But it is still quite pleasant to shoot.Īgain, circling back to the why. You have a fair bit of noise coming from the ejection port and the cycling of the gun. Subsonic rounds through the gas gun are quiet, but suffer the same as any other round. That’s ridiculously quiet considering the projectile you’re sending down range. Out of a bolt action, it is about the same report as a. But the real magic is in the subsonic loads. Like with any supersonic round, you will have the associated crack while firing the round. Is the 8.6 Creedmoor quiet when running it through a silencer? Absolutely. The 8.6 Creedmoor had no issues cycling the Noveske or locking back on an empty magazine while shooting supersonic and subsonic rounds.īoth the bolt action Fix by Q and DI gas gun by Noveske worked great for me. I’ve shot the 8.6 Creedmoor out of a Fix Rifle as well as a Noveske AR10 Pistol. The 8.6 Creedmoor performs equally well out of a bolt action rifle as it does out of a gas gun. For reference, that is more energy than a 45ACP at the muzzle…īolt action or semi-automatic? Yes. at the muzzle and is still maintaining 550 ft. Using 300+ grain expanding subsonic loads, the 8.6 Creedmoor generates 650+ ft. With supersonic loads, it will outperform a 18” barreled. I’d say so, out of a 12.5” barrel the 8.6 Creedmoor with a 155GR bullet at 2500FPS brings 2,100 ft. Now I guess you’re wondering if it does in fact perform. That gives us better super and subsonic performance out to a moderate range than was previously available. We are taking a cartridge, cutting it down and putting a larger projectile into it, and optimizing it for a shorter barrel. And the answer is because it provides an amazing melding of supersonic and subsonic performance for the. We probably could have started this whole article with the question of “Why?” Why bother with 8.6 Creedmoor? That is a fair question. A number of different test loads for the 8.6 Creedmoor.
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