6 Creedmoor +P+

Long before the subculture was rat-fucked by the late Paul Walker, Walter pulled a stint racing for pink slips in "Mexico." Like with ballistics, there are many ways to skin this cat, many ways to lull unsuspecting, cold-plunge-and-sauna-alternating dentists into wagering tens of thousands of dollars on the capabilities of their latest German, automated contraption and underestimating a portly, aging mall cop and lowly 93 Mazda Miata. On many nights, that Mall Cop was Walter, and that Miata had the raging heart of a C5 Corvette with two snails hidden in a fake spare tire, carbon fiber door panels with fake rust airbrushed on them, and an AWD swap from a Mazda MPV making 47 pounds of boost. From a dig, it would beat a Tesla Plaid like the Poles in the autumn of 1939. With enough corn alcohol and AWD, it's terribly hard for a heavy car, regardless of how many pistons or motors, to outrun Walter's little Miata. Things went great for Walter until he hustled a crooked DA's son out of a 1911 Turbo and was forced to strip the VIN plate, rivet it to a donor car, steal a corpse from the local medical school and torch it in the bottom of a canyon, and fake his own death.

Recently, Walter has been messing with the ballistic equivalent of the beloved 93 Miata, the 6 Creedmoor +P+ running the 108 Berger Elite Hunter and Converted Sig 277 Fury Brass, and has some very interesting results. Like with many calibers that are merely necked-down larger calibers, 6 Creedmoor, when loaded to SAMMI spec, rarely has 100 case capacity. This makes it a perfect candidate for turning up the sauce with hybrid brass and pushing the velocity. Over the holidays, Walter bought an Aero Precision Solus barreled action with a 26-inch 6 Creedmoor barrel, and when it arrived 74 months later, he started tinkering. He messed with various powders, bullets, and primers and eventually settled on the 108 Berger Elite Hunter and a truckload of H4350. Out of Walter's 26-inch barrel, it's doing just under 3400 FPS (3380) and is supersonic past 1650 yards. At 1000 yards, the elevation hold is 5.4 mils; at 1250 yards, it's 8 mils. SDs are in the mid-single digits, ESs are in the low 20s, and it's printing well under an inch at 100 yards. Recoil feels like a lightweight 6.5 Creedmoor, and the barrel gets hot enough to make s'mores on after a mag or two. Prairie dogs, take notice. Like with Walter's Miata, the barrel days are undoubtedly numbered, but in that time it will shine bright.

Well, Walter, I thought you were into short, lightweight hunting rifles, not 15-pound race guns? What the fuck does that have to do with me? Well, lop 10 inches off that barrel, and the 108 Bergers are still doing north of 3100 FPS out of a 16-inch barrel. For those unfamiliar with 6 Creed ammo, this is over 100 fps faster than factory out of a 24- or 26-inch test barrel and will get a jacketed bullet like an ELDX or Berger expanding out past 900 yards with easy follow-up shots. A 6mm Creed Noveske Barrel for the Q Fix, anyone? Walter is in for 2.