Does anybody have experience with both 223 Wylde and 6.5 Cre? If you were to pick one to shoot from a 20" barrell, which would you pick and why? Is 6.5 smaller or larger than a 6.5 Cre? Which one is more readily available and less cost? (It is going to be for a DT MDRX). Thanks.
223 wylde is the same as you’d commonly see in an AR15. Rather than 223 or 5.56, they invented the Wylde which is a hybrid between them so you can use either 223 or 5.56 ammo.
6.5 creed is much more powerful but also 3x more expensive to shoot.
For a truck gun, I’d go 223 wylde.
Thanks Jim. That is what I am going with. The other two, 6.5 & 308 wm, are an extra $500 and these two ammos are much more than 223 Wylde.
Thanks for the reply.
Jim is right. The Wylde chamber just allows you to shoot 223 or 5.56. In my Rock River FE Coyote it has a wylde chamber and it really seems to prefer the 5.56 by a wide margin. I wonder if anyone else has seen or heard of this happening?
Yeah it’s not uncommon for a rifle to like one or another ammo type better. 5.56 tends to be loaded hotter in general. My custom AR has a Wilde chamber. It likes both 5.56 or 223 but I general go with heavy 5.56 or 223 ammo in the 69-77gr range. It prefers that over the light 55-62 gr stuff.
What I don’t get about the wylde is that anything chambered in 5.56 already shoots both anyway. So what is different about wylde?? I still don’t know.
As I understand it, the tolerances are a little tighter on the Wylde than a military 5.56 chambering so you get better accuracy.
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