The NEW 7.6 Creedmoor — Best .30-Cal Cartridge Ever?
Leveraging the incredible success of the 6.5 Creedmoor cartridge, ammo-makers and rifle manufacturers have teamed up to produce a bigger Creedmoor cartridge — the 7.6 Creedmoor. The latest addition to the Creedmoor line gets its name from its 7.62mm bullet dimension. Yep, that makes it a .30-cal cartridge, but the creators stuck with the metric title for consistency. Makes sense. We like the way “7.6 Creedmoor” sounds and we bet consumers will too. The 6.5 Creedmoor has been a singular success — it is by far the most popular new cartridge introduced in the last decade. We think the 7.6 Creedmoor could become equally successful in short order.
In creating the new 7.6 Creedmoor, the product engineers were primarily concerned with accuracy, reliability, and compatibility. In a brilliant marketing stroke, the 7.6 Creedmoor’s designers crafted this cartridge to be 100% compatible with existing .308 Winchester and 7.62×51 rifles. So you can shoot the 7.6 Creedmoor safely in your existing .308 Win deer rifle or F-TR rig. As one ammo-maker’s marketing manager told us: “The 7.6 Creedmoor gives you everything you liked about the .308 Win, with a trendy name and the undeniable Creedmoor cachet. The 6.5 Creedmoor has become hugely popular. We expect the new 7.6 Creedmoor to do as well, or better!” We agree. Consider this — the 7.6 Creedmoor offers much better barrel life than the 6.5 Creedmoor, along with better bullet selection, particularly for hunters. With these advantages, how could the 7.6 Creedmoor not become a huge hit? The Creedmoor name alone should ensure success.
We discussed the new 7.6 Creedmoor with Dennis DeRille, one of the “founding fathers” of the 6.5 Creedmoor. Dennis said — “The Creedmoor name is synonymous with innovation and tactical success. This new 7.6 should live up to its name as it delivers .308 Win performance in a package for the 21st Century.”
Reassuring .308 Win Ballistics and Die Compatibility
Another great feature of the new 7.6 Creedmoor is that you can use existing .308 Win dies and reloading components. That excited one PRS shooter: “I had all this old .308 brass and .30-Cal bullets sitting around. When I heard about the 7.6 Creedmoor I said ‘Wow this is great, I can use this stuff in a Creedmoor now’. I know it will be accurate based on the name alone. That’s cool — tacticool!”
Because the new 7.6 Creedmoor shares case capacity and design details with the venerable .308 Win, it also shares the .308 Win’s impressive ballistics performance. “Whatever you can do with a .308 Win, you can do with the 7.6 Creedmoor… and then some!” says Hornady. Here is a chart showing projected velocities for the 7.6 Creedmoor with various barrel lengths and bullet weights.
NRA Approves 7.6 Creedmoor for F-TR Competition
Currently, NRA competition rules restrict F-TR rifles to the .308 Win (7.62×51) and .223 Rem (5.56×45) chamberings. But that’s going to change. Starting in June 2019, the NRA will allow 7.6 Creedmoor rifles in all F-TR matches. In addition, the 7.6 Creedmoor can be used in service rifles such as the popular M1A. It’s great to see this old battle rifle updated with Creedmoor accuracy and performance.
USA and Foreign Ammo Makers will Produce 7.6 Creedmoor Ammo
7.6 Creedmoor factory-loaded ammunition will be available from all major USA ammo-makers including Federal, Hornady, CCI, and Remington. As well, foreign ammo-makers Hirtenberger, Sellier & Bellot, and Prvi Partizan have pledged to produce 7.6 Creedmoor ammunition. That’s good news for shooters who want affordable Creedmoor ammo. One ammo-maker told us: “The whole industry is excited about the 7.6 Creedmoor. To be honest, .308 Win ammo sales have been declining for a number of years. Now we can repackage those same great components and market them to a new set of consumers reared on the 6.5 Creedmoor. This is a great deal for ammo-makers, who know how excitable Creedmoor fan-boys can be!”
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All joking aside, it’s called the 30 TC!
April Fools Joke.
Just checking the calendar
Will next year be the year of the .50 BMCreedmoor?
Has to be an April Fools joke!!
Almost had me till “turn your .308 into a tactical tackdriver”
well done
Hashtag GAME CHANGER!!!
So. What is the difference???
I don’t get it…. What exactly is the advantage over. 308? More accurate? Less recoil? Cheaper?
Lots of work put into this April 1st ammo review
This is so cool! Now I can hold my head up with the rest of the Creedmoor snobs…
Demille and I do not share similar optimism at this point.
What a hunk of BS marketing!
April Fools are us! Common guys you can do better than that! LOL!
Awesome! This is Hornady’s best new product since the BulletCam! I’m glad they waited until the first to announce it!
April Fools…
Great , here’s another brass headstamp that Peterson and ADG will introduce before the 300 WSM.
Great April fools joke as always
Is this a April fools joke?
Just another one of all the empty promises we get for the start of April before shooting season gets into full swing.
APRIL FOOLS
April fool don’t you think.
Possible rebranding prank?
April Fools fellas
April Fools
Atleast this version doesn’t slow down with barrels longer than 24 inches
great idea same thing as a 308 but with Creedmoor in the title if this was real they would make a killing off dumb ppl lol
April fools !!!!
April Fools!!!
APRIL FOOLS!!!
if it comes in as affordable ammo. it may become a hit. practice and sighting in would pose a question. if your rifle in 308 150 gr is zero at 100 yards would there be a need for readjusting it for the 7.6
Come on, people. Think.
What day is today…
I hope one of the new loads will be a dimpled bullet cam! Where can I get reamers to convert my AR 10 in 308 to a 7.6 Creedmoor??? I sooo neeeeeed this!
Great April fools joke.
7.6 Creedmoor with the exact dimentions of a 7.62×51 or 308 Winchester.
LOL. Thanks, I got a good laugh out of this!
April 1
Come on guys its April fools day
So it is fully compatible with 308, even in tightly chambered M1A? The velocity charts match 308. With out pulling out 308 SAMI specs and a magnifying glass, the only difference I see if its 1 hundredth shorter.
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and looks like a duck; I bet it’s just a short duck.
This article doesn’t tell me anything about the ‘new’ cartridge, except that’s it’s the same as the old one.
I think this is an April fools joke.
How is this any different from 308?
Someone has a lot of time on their hands.
I don’t know how long it takes to make a page like this, but its good anyways. Kind of like the bullet cam thing awhile back that came out on the same date.
Nothing new here. I have been using this wildcat for years, made by fire forming 30 TC brass.
When that became unavailable, I switched to ex-Military brass.
I found that ex WW2 30-06 worked best by using a Lee trim die, then necking down in 4 stages, finally using a custom Whidden full length die.
Best primers were Chinese, removed from steel cased 7.62×39 .
Groups well under .25 at 10 yards.
April Fools.
Sure, they SAY that it will work in all .308 actions, but we have all heard this king of thing before. I am waiting for someone on YouTube to post a video before I am convinced.
I have been burned before. I own a mil-surp 7.62×51 2A1 Ishapore rifle (the one that looks like a SMLE). One YouTube video says that it is too weak to fire mii-spec ammo. Another says that 7.62×51 is not the same as .308. People at the range now make fun of me for aiming my empty rifle and saying “pew … ding, pew…. ding, pew ……. (sometimes I miss – on purpose).
Now they dangle the hope that I could finally be tacticool and become a Creedmoron? Be still my fluttering heart!
April Fool’s?
April. Fools.
April Fool
These replies are the reason you believe nothing on April First.
Just 1st of April…..
Everyone knows what today is, right!
It’s that time of year!!