6.5 Creedmoor Federal 130gr Terminal Ascent: 600-Yard
6.5 Creedmoor Federal 130gr Terminal Ascent: 600-Yard. Federal Premium 6.5 Creedmoor 130gr Terminal Ascent tested to 600 yards with Browning X-Bolt Speed and Tract Optics. Velocity data, accuracy, and hunting { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization", "name": "Greyhive", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://greyhive.com/static/uploads/images/ae198483-01c9-44b4-a16a-03f516ceaf66.svg", "width": 512, "height": 512 }, "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/greyhive", "https://www.instagram.com/greyhive/", "https://www.youtube.com/@Greyhive", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/greyhive/" ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "name": "Greyhive", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization" } }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/c/nontypnito_channel#person", "name": "AP2020 Outdoors", "url": "https://greyhive.com/c/nontypnito_channel", "description": "AP2020 Outdoors is a Greyhive creator producing original 2A, firearms, hunting, and outdoor content.", "image": "https://greyhive.com/lazy-static/avatars/fdc542ca-5021-498d-82f3-3599d940a8b6.png" }, { "@type": "Article", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/6-5-creedmoor-federal-terminal-ascent-600-yard-test#article", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website" }, "mainEntityOfPage": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/6-5-creedmoor-federal-terminal-ascent-600-yard-test" }, "url": "https://greyhive.com/blog/6-5-creedmoor-federal-terminal-ascent-600-yard-test", "headline": "6.5 Creedmoor Federal 130gr Terminal Ascent: 600-Yard", "name": "6.5 Creedmoor Federal 130gr Terminal Ascent: 600-Yard", "description": "Federal Premium 6.5 Creedmoor 130gr Terminal Ascent tested to 600 yards with Browning X-Bolt Speed and Tract Optics. Velocity data, accuracy, and hunting", "articleSection": "Ammunition", "articleBody": "Federal Premium's 6.5 Creedmoor 130gr Terminal Ascent load averaged 2,662 fps out of a suppressed Browning X-Bolt Speed 2 with a 1:8 twist barrel, printed a 1-inch three-shot group at 100 yards, and needed 16.8 minutes of elevation to reach a steel silhouette at 600 yards. That's the short version of the data pulled from episode two of the \"Effective Range of the 6.5 Creedmoor\" series on AP2020 Outdoors. The host of AP2020 Outdoors ran the test the way it should be run — confirm the 100-yard zero first, log velocity on two separate chronographs simultaneously, dial the solution, then send rounds at steel and a frozen watermelon at 600 yards while calling wind corrections in real time. No bench-only claims, no \"trust me\" numbers. Everything in this article comes from what the chronographs and the target actually showed. If you're researching whether a 6.5 Creedmoor deer rifle stretches honestly to 600 yards with a bonded hunting bullet, this is the kind of field data worth reading twice — including the parts where the wind moved and the impacts walked from 10 o'clock to 8 o'clock between shots. Key Takeaways Federal Premium 6.5 Creedmoor 130gr Terminal Ascent averaged 2,662 fps on a Garmin Xero C1 and 2,665 fps on an Athlon Optics Rangecraft, with a 14.1 fps standard deviation. Recorded shot strings ran 2,648–2,677 fps (Garmin) and…