Springfield M1A in 6.5 Creedmoor - SPONSORED

This is a Springfield Armory M1A. Now, if you're familiar with long range rifles, historical military rifles, or you're just an avid collector of cool rifles, you already know what an M1A is. But this particular M1A, you can see, is set up with a couple of really cool things on the outside but what's really cool about it is on the inside. On the inside, this M1A is set up to fire the 6.5 Creedmoor round. Now, if you're not familiar with the M1A in general, you may not know that it's traditionally a .308 rifle, a 7.62x51 rifle.

This 6.5 Creedmoor is designed for long distance shooting and I'm not talking about 500 meters or 600 meters, I'm talking about up to a thousand, twelve hundred, or fifteen hundred meters. The 6.5 Creedmoor round has become incredibly popular because of its flat shooting trajectory, and the ease with which people can customize loads directly to their rifle, and Springfield didn't want to be left out. Precision Rifle Shooting, the PRS competition series has been the fastest growing type of firearms competition for a number of years. It's incredibly popular, and of course, so is the M1A. So it only makes sense that the most popular round, the 6.5 Creedmoor, is now available in this classic configuration.

Now, this isn't truly the classic configuration because you can see it has an updated, completely adjustable stock from Archangel. It's got the adjustable comb. It's got adjustable length of pole. And of course it's designed here to be very ergonomic and allow either a left-handed or right-handed shooter to get a good grip on the gun. The way the stock works, of course, we have an attachment rail up here for a bipod.

If you were interested in putting a light or a designating laser on here you also could do that as well. You also can see that it's got a mount setup for a rail mount adjustable to any optic that you want to put on here. We've got a Schmidt and Bender on here. Now I took this rifle out for the first time just a couple of days ago, and I'm not a 6.5 Creedmoor guy. I happen to like the classic calibers and I don't take my precision rifle shooting at distance so seriously that I need to be at the competitive edge that the 6.5 Creedmoor allows.

So I just simply have been putting it off. Well, this gave me an opportunity to go out there and test it. Took about four or five shots at 500 yards to get it started. Then we shot a group at a hundred, and then I took it all the way out to a thousand at a range not too far from Ancient City. And I'll tell you what I was able to do with this rifle in this scope combination, with some help with my friend Brian, who set it up, and he is a 6.5 Creedmoor shooter, and we were able to hit 5 out of 6 shots on a 48x48 inch steel plate, at a thousand in light wind.

And again, didn't shoot 30 rounds out of the gun. So I know what the gun's capable of. Everyone knows what the 6.5 Creedmoor is capable of, and I had a lot of fun shooting it. I do enjoy long distance rifle shooting but now that I've got a taste of 6.5 Creedmoor, I might actually have to get one of these M1A's and take PRS rifle competition seriously too. It really is an incredible tool.

If you like the classic lines of the M1, if you're familiar with the M1A, this is the gun for you. Now in 6.5 Creedmoor from Springfield Armory.