I’ve converted Bayli’s .243 to a 6mm-08. Really made a big difference in the performance!! It’s almost to much for small S. Alabama size deer.

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old post but just dropping my 2 cents. I'd definitely go 6 creed. I've taken 22 deer and countless varmints over the past 2 years with mine. I compete with a 6gt out to 1200 yards so shot placement is my forte. I'm 6'2" and 235 but like to spot my shots. Also, wouldn't even shoot at a coyote without being able to place a lethal shot on it. respect the animal, dead is dead

"You'll hear a lot of trash talk about the CM because the caliber is so popular and for whatever reason the old school guys hate it."

BC, I was one of the "old school guys" in the beginning with the 6.5 CM but ever since I started shooting mine, I have warmed up to it considerably. It hits with plenty authority for woods goats and the bullet construction is, as always, the deal maker/breaker. As someone with a prosthetic shoulder joint, I have been advised by my surgeon to leave the bazookas alone, but the 6.5 CM and PRC are plenty powerful without detaching your retina!
Remember this above all else: it aint what you shoot, it's how you shoot it!

Biggest buck I’ve ever seen was killed with an old 243 an 100gr Corelokts. It was killed in the Mississippi River bottoms in Clarksville Missouri. The only main frame 12pt I’ve ever seen. I wish we would’ve weighed that thing. It was the whole length of the truck bed and was better then half the width of it. Good grief that was a big animal. Old man Huckstep just couldn’t figure out what all the fuss was about. He said it was just the first deer that walked out in front of him. You gotta love them old people.

I glad you guys are buying them . You ain't using up the ammo I need . Lol

“I’m pretty sure I hit him” famous words of the bazooka boys as they were casually looking at the wood line 250 yards to the right of the animal after getting spun in their heated seat of their sportsman condo. True story 😂😂 all in fun, I want anyone to shoot what they want.

I prefer all calibers. A 300blk or 350 legend would be a good gun for a kid. Just buy him another one in a year or two. Personally, i want one of each.

nothing wrong with a 357mag rifle either for a kid . cheap to shoot a lot too.

Theres one on psa right now for $499, lever action too

Not one thing wrong with a 6mm creed or a .243, but I will always favor the 7mm-08. Just hammers deer. Only thing I like better for whitetail is .25-06 or .257 Roberts.

If you put good bullets (made for the game you’re hunting), in the right spot (for the game you’re hunting), then calibers and case head stamps are mostly semantics. If burning more powder and slinging fatter and heavier bullets makes you more comfortable, then do that. If you like more efficient stuff, then do that. Bad bullets and bad shooting end badly, regardless. I have zero qualms about 6mms, but i think the 6.5s do more at whitetail ranges….if that matters to you.

I'm all for anybody to shoot whatever they want to shoot. The 2 longest trailing jobs I was ever involved in was deer shot with a 300 Win and a 308 Norma mag. These 2 deer went for ever.

There you go making sense again.

6mm. Dash.