0.264/6.5mm 140gr Speer Gold Dot shot from a 6.5 Creedmoor ballistics gel test high and low velocity

[@claylumsden7773]

Thanks for testing them. They did good.

[@simplemindedfella]

Your welcome. They did a lot better at low velocities then I thought they would. Excellent terminal performance.

[@kentuckywindage222]

@@simplemindedfella Gold Dot has always performed well for me in 38, 9mm, 357, .40 and .45 acp pistol cartridges. For duty, personal and hunting. The .223 round in 62gr seems to be great within its limits. 55gr, 62gr and 75gr in .223. Haven't used it in .30cal. but I'm sure it would perform excellently also.

[@tonypurton3135]

Great work Kind Sir 👍 Please carry on your informative, thorough analysis of the performance of the various projectiles that you do Thank you for your efforts & sharing right here on YT Kind regards An old subscriber & mate from the Deep South of Australia 🇦🇺

[@simplemindedfella]

Thank you for your kind words and encouragement.

[@Is_Time_A_Number]

Great videos thank you for making them! An idea that would be helpful, if you could add a still picture of the two expanded rounds to the end of the video for maybe 10 seconds so we can have a good visual for reference it would be great! I like having a good visual of what I hope my bullet is doing on impact. Again , thank you for your time.

[@davidfreeman1947]

Yeah, Georgia!

[@brent338]

Speer makes good stuff, and this budget bonded option is another winner.

[@simplemindedfella]

I was really pleased with the results. I will be giving the gold dots a bit more of my attention as they are a budget friendly bullet and performed very well in this ballistics test.

[@anthonybanks4633]

Love your 6.5mm bullet testing

[@simplemindedfella]

Glad you enjoy them

[@anthonybanks4633]

@@simplemindedfella just got some nosler E tip 120 you know if them are good on deer

[@simplemindedfella]

@@anthonybanks4633 I need to re test them as I have changed the way I record my videos and I had a camera malfunction at the range. Here is a video showing their performance kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGe0fX-AhrBledk Yes they would be good for deer.

[@rickytutelage8496]

I will be picking some up to load, surprisingly good performance at ~1500 fps. Bravo. Thanks!

[@simplemindedfella]

Your welcome

[@Joe-lk6oc]

Fantastic performance! The Speer 140 Gold Dot should be devastating on deer out of a 6.5 Creedmoor, 260 Rem, 6.5x55! Your videos are excellent!!!

[@simplemindedfella]

@Joe-lk6oc thanks. Glad you enjoy them.

[@guardianminifarm8005]

Good results. Thank you

[@kmhendrickson]

It seems like these are one of the better 6.5 Creed hunting bullets available. They have a fairly high BC, are a bonded lead core bullet that does plenty of damage at high and low velocity. Regardless of the low price I think these are one of the best available. They also don’t seem very touchy to load for either.

[@AlaskanBallistics]

Great Video. Shared. Good bullet. Maybe the same guy sent me some and I've got them loaded up in 6.5x284 Norma. Hopefully they won't explode. Thanks for the video. Godspeed and good hunting.

[@tylarhaugan7908]

They seem to hold together well. Im looking forward to youre test also

[@simplemindedfella]

That should be an interesting test. Looking forward to seeing how well they hold together at increased velocities.

[@tylarhaugan7908]

@@simplemindedfella hoping to see the 150s accubond in 6.5 creedmoor in future. I just picked up 2 boxes at 2.00 a bullet

[@simplemindedfella]

@@tylarhaugan7908 I haven't seen any of them around here I've been wanting to test them. At $2 a bullet I would lean towards going monolithic with something like a Hammer bullet or a Cutting Edge that operates at almost as low of velocity's as the ABLR's do and still hold together better. I use the 142gr ABLR's in my 6.5 Creedmoor as I got a huge lot of them cheap a few years back and they have proven to be an excellent bullet for me, the 150gr would give you a little more sectional density and penetration, I would think the performance would be near identical.

[@tylarhaugan7908]

@@simplemindedfella i bought them for a friend. He uses 6.5 creedmoor and prc for elk. His normal bullet is 127 barnes lrx his ranges are 150 and in where he hunts

[@billr4677]

Wondering how similar their Gand Slam pill performs? Great videos as always.

[@paulscountry456]

Such mild recoil is a huge plus,those light loads would be great for some things.

[@simplemindedfella]

The light recoil really is huge when working with kids making sure they don't become recoil sensitive. Having a bullet that will still give good stopping power without needing really high velocity is nice when hunting with youth/kids.

[@jrnbakken4348]

Great work! Can you catch some of these and show us the results and weigh them? This is a bonded design I would guess? Best from Norway!

[@simplemindedfella]

I do put retained weights of the bullets I capture in the description. 105.2gr was the high velocity shot and I ended up recovering a low velocity one that was not in the video, it impacted the gelatin at 1726 fps and had a retained weight of 138.5gr

[@carterthiessen2664]

I picked up a couple boxes of 140gr speer hot cor. They're not bonded but im hoping for decent performance on whitetail deer. These days up in Canada we have to take what we can get as far as reloading components.

[@simplemindedfella]

Hor Cor are a good deer bullet. I ran the 150gr in a 30-06 for a wile and even harvested elk with them. May not be the best but they will definitely get the job done.

[@carterthiessen2664]

@@simplemindedfella I also have some 150 in 30 cal. Loaded some up in a buddies 300 savage, they should do well for deer and black bear at 2650 or so. Also shot a few from my 06, 53gr of 4064 gives exactly 3000 fps from a 24 inch pipe. Not sure how they'll hold up at that velocity though. Have to make sure the deer are at least 150 yards away haha. Love your channel!

[@simplemindedfella]

@@carterthiessen2664 with all non bonded or partitioned lead core bullets to high of velocities can be a concern. As a rule of thumb I try to keep muzzle velocities around 2700 fps or under for cup and core bullets that are not bonded regardless of caliber. I harvested my first bull elk (the hurd bull a big 5x5) with the 30-06 150gr (Speer Hot Cor) Federal Power Shocks factory ammo long before the days of me reloading and they worked.

[@carterthiessen2664]

@@simplemindedfella got a load for the 140gr hot cor in my dads 6.5 creed. It absolutely hated imr4831, maybe because it was a compressed load to get enough in the case. I switched to superformance powder and the groups shrunk right down. Several 3 shot groups under .75 moa, shots 4 and 5 open up the group unless I wait longer between shots to let the barrel cool. Only problem is I'm out of superformance powder and nobody here in Canada has it in stock!!

[@simplemindedfella]

@@carterthiessen2664 I haven't seen any superformance where I at eather. At least I'm starting to see more powers in general in my area.

[@llkj7944]

Any opinions if these Gold dots is what Federal is loading in their Fusion line of ammo? Recovered bullets look almost identical!

[@MK9-VGI]

They are very very similar. And alot will argue they are ddifferent. Everything we've tested them on they look exactly the same even the fexpansio

[@cory8791]

Great vid!! Wonder what powder you use for your reduced loads? Cast bullet data?

[@simplemindedfella]

There's a few different options out there and you can find some of the information online searching reduced loads and using pistol powders. There's more to it than just what powder, the case capacity having too much empty air space can cause issues, it's really hard to do a decent job with reduced loads out of say something like a 300 PRC there's just way too much case there so I use my 308 when testing lower velocities in 30 cal.

[@kentuckywindage222]

@@simplemindedfella I haven't quite built up to do reduced testing. I will just support you. You do an excellent job with great informative content. Thanks for taking the time and expenses of doing these test.

[@Tadders]

What do you think has a thicker jacket, the Gold Dot or Rem CoreLokt ? Same goes for the Ultra Lokt.

[@simplemindedfella]

That's a good question. I honestly don't know I'd have to look it up. Based off how they performed in gelatin I really couldn't tell you.

[@joshclemons9975]

What are your top 5 bullets for the 6.5 creedmoor out two 500 yards and why are they your favorite thanks 🤘

[@simplemindedfella]

I currently use and absolutely love, although it can be finicky to get to stabilize and shoot well, are the Nosler Accubond Long Range. You can't go wrong with Badlands or Hammer bullets, Swift Scircco's would be another good option as well as speer gold dot. I do use and like the Nosler Partitions in my brush gun, and I have shot well past 500 on deer with them no issues. (I do test in gelatin and on paper for accuracy before taking longer shots) I like bullets that hold together well at close range with really high impact velocities as well as open quickly at a longer range with low velocities on impact. There are a few bullets on the market that do that well. From there, it's whatever shoots most accurately out of my gun. Accuracy is always most important, as well as shot placement from there. You need to know you have a bullet that will reach the vitals, tear them up, and not pinline.

[@joshclemons9975]

I agree 💯 and I only hunt whitetails in Kentucky and I had good luck with the 129 SST but I wanted a little tuffer bullet and I'm thinking about the terminal accent or the 129 gr accubond long-range n thanks for the great info and videos I really like what you do

[@joshclemons9975]

I have a bergara wilderness in 6.5 creed with a 1 in 8 inch twist and it shoots most factory ammos under a inch and a few under a half inch consistently but I've used the SST for so many years and in so many different rifles I hate too change but I would in my 6.5 because it's a smaller caliber and in my opinion it needs a little tuffer bullet too get better penetration but I might be looking at it wrong

[@simplemindedfella]

@joshclemons9975 you only need the tougher on high velocity impacts. Your close range shots. If the Hornaday eld-x didn't grenade on close shots, I would love it, but man, do they, and most of my shots are within 100 yards, so I rarely use them.

[@joshclemons9975]

@@simplemindedfella exactly right the SST are exploding at close range too but are perfect once they get to 200 yards

[@martinfernandez5005]

When I get the Speer impact I'll send you some.

[@simplemindedfella]

Hopefully when things thaw out a bit this spring I will be able to focus more on bullet testing.

[@anthonybanks4633]

That's what I shoot is a 6.5 mm cm

[@Thawhitestguyeva]

Your shooting 6.5 creedmoor at 20 feet? No shit it went through the blocks