The 6.5 Creedmoor was an overnight success that only took about a decade to gain traction. The brainchild of Dave Emary and Dennis DeMille, the cartridge was introduced in 2007. It was aimed primarily at competitive shooters, with whom it caught on pretty quickly. The Hornady engineers mated a sleek 140-grain bullet (the Extremely Low Drag — Match, or ELD-M) with a very efficient cartridge case, a match-quality chamber, and a properly spun barrel. The result is outstanding accuracy, along with decent energy and very reasonable recoil. Hornady even printed the recipe for the load right on the cartridge box, so new adopters could replicate the very accurate load. What’s not to like?
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