Springfield Waypoint 6.5 Creedmoor CF – Superb 22 Inch Evergreen Rifle

Description

The Springfield Waypoint 6.5 Creedmoor CF weighs 6 pounds 12 ounces before optics. That is a genuinely remarkable figure for a rifle carrying a 22 inch barrel and a three quarter MOA accuracy guarantee, and it comes from putting carbon fiber in both places it can go: around the barrel and into the stock.

Two Kinds Of Carbon Fiber

The barrel is a carbon fiber wrapped tube rather than a solid steel contour. A thin steel liner does the shooting and a carbon fiber jacket around it supplies the stiffness that a heavy steel profile would otherwise provide. The result is a barrel that resists whip like a bull barrel while weighing closer to a sporter, which is most of why the Springfield Waypoint 6.5 Creedmoor CF comes in under seven pounds.

The stock is carbon fiber too, in what Springfield calls a hybrid profile with M-Lok slots and QD cups moulded in. A carbon stock is dimensionally stable in a way wood never is and stiffer than the injection moulded stocks on cheaper rifles, so the action sits in the same place regardless of weather.

Everything wears Mil-Spec Green Cerakote H-264, which is where the Evergreen name comes from. It is a working finish rather than a decorative one, resisting solvent and abrasion better than anodising alone.

Action, Trigger And Feeding

The action in the Springfield Waypoint 6.5 Creedmoor CF is custom grade Model 2020 stainless steel with dual locking lugs, EDM cut raceways and a fluted 4140 tool steel bolt finished in nitride. It follows the Remington 700 short action footprint, so the Picatinny rail takes standard rings and the barrelled action drops into aftermarket chassis without fitting work.

A TriggerTech adjustable trigger runs from 2.5 to 5 pounds and uses a free floating roller between sear and trigger. That construction is why it breaks identically cold, wet or through a glove, which matters far more on a hunting rifle than on a bench gun. On the Springfield Waypoint 6.5 Creedmoor CF it is the component that makes the accuracy guarantee reachable by an ordinary shooter.

Feeding is from a five round AICS magazine in the short action pattern. AICS magazines are cheap, available everywhere and detachable, so you can top off without disturbing a shooting position, which is a meaningful advantage over a hinged floorplate on a stalking rifle.

Springfield Waypoint 6.5 Creedmoor CF Specifications

• Caliber: 6.5 Creedmoor
• Barrel: 22 inch carbon fiber wrapped, 1:8 twist
• Barrel finish: Mil-Spec Green Cerakote H-264
• Muzzle device: SA Radial Brake, Mil-Spec Green Cerakote H-264
• Action: Model 2020 stainless steel, dual locking lugs, EDM cut raceways
• Bolt: Fluted 4140 tool steel with nitride finish
• Trigger: TriggerTech Adjustable, 2.5 to 5 pounds
• Stock: Hybrid profile carbon fiber with M-Lok slots and QD cups
• Magazine: One five round AICS short action
• Optic mount: Picatinny rail, Remington 700 short action pattern, 6-48 screws
• Overall length: 43.5 inches
• Weight: 6 pounds 12 ounces
• Accuracy: 0.75 MOA guarantee
• Model number: BAW92265CMCFG
• UPC: 706397939175

An SA Radial Brake is fitted at the muzzle in the matching Cerakote finish.

Why Buyers Choose The Springfield Waypoint 6.5 Creedmoor CF

Six pounds twelve ounces with a 22 inch barrel is the headline, and it is achieved without the usual penalty. Lightweight hunting rifles normally get there with a pencil barrel that walks as it heats and a flexible stock, and they shoot accordingly. The Springfield Waypoint 6.5 Creedmoor CF uses carbon fiber in both places instead, so it stays stiff while staying light.

6.5 Creedmoor is also the right cartridge for this rifle. It is efficient, it recoils mildly, high ballistic coefficient bullets are available everywhere, and in a sub seven pound rifle that mild recoil matters enormously. A 300 magnum at this weight would be punishing; a 6.5 Creedmoor is pleasant.

The 1:8 twist stabilises the 140 to 147 grain bullets that make the cartridge worth shooting at distance, which is the whole reason people choose 6.5 Creedmoor over a .308.

Now the honest points. The SA Radial Brake is effective and correspondingly loud, and on a hunt that means either hearing protection or accepting the consequences. Carbon wrapped barrels also shed heat differently from steel, so this is not a rifle for long strings from a hot barrel. The five round magazine is standard for the class but fewer than some hunters like. And a rifle this light is genuinely harder to hold steady offhand than a heavier one, which is the trade you accept for carrying it all day.

One more practical note. At this price the Springfield Waypoint 6.5 Creedmoor CF deserves glass that matches it, so budget for a decent scope and rings rather than fitting whatever is spare.

Who Should Buy The Springfield Waypoint 6.5 Creedmoor CF

The Springfield Waypoint 6.5 Creedmoor CF suits the hunter who covers ground on foot and wants a rifle that shoots like a bench gun without carrying like one. If most of your shooting happens from a bench or a bipod, a heavier steel barrel costs considerably less and handles heat better. If you need more energy for elk or moose at distance, the 300 Win Mag versions of the Model 2020 are the ones to look at. And if the carbon barrel is the only thing you are unsure about, Springfield build the same rifle with a steel barrel for meaningfully less.

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