6.5 caliber resales
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Sure was. Some people take advantage of that too.
Even if I don't need to take advantage of all of those areas, I really don't mind getting probably 95% of the performance of a hot loaded 6.5x55 with less powder. The difference in performance won't really matter to me. Short action magazines are nice.
Lots of good, cheap and very accurate rifles chambered in 6.5 Creed is something I dig. And when things weren't crazy, lots of ammo on the shelves.
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Have you let the nordic countries know they are doing it wrong with their 6.5x55's?
In that vain, smaller cartridges with less recoil are much easier to shoot precisely. There is something to be said about that. Shot placement does matter.
A lot of hunters have a tendency of wanting to be overkill with their hunting cartridges. And as a result, many of them are very poor shots due to developing very poor shooting habits/fundamentals from heavier recoiling rifles.
By no means am I saying that everyone needs to hunt with a 6.5 Creedmoor, or that its "the perfect hunting round". But going overkill with your cartridge selection has consequences as well, and these are often overlooked by western hunters.
Yeah, and it doesn't buy you a whole lot of leeway either. We're talking another...2 inches? Maybe? Of slop where you can anchor an animal that a smaller caliber/cartridge would have let get away. I really don't think it is much.
Two constraints that come to mind for me compared to what I've shot moose with in the past are I want to avoid hitting the foreleg (which I try to anyway, so not that big of a change) and I don't think the exit will leave as much blood on the ground. But I've seen enough 30-06s loaded with different bullets not exit too, and have had to make follow up shots even when hit in the vitals because I really don't want to play "lets see how far he goes if I only shoot once". If there is time to stick him again, I stick him again. have done so with 300 WM and 30-06.
So in the end, really not sure how much it changes for me. YMMV. Yes I'll be a bit pickier about shot selection but not to a large degree and don't expect much difference in performance.
Two constraints that come to mind for me compared to what I've shot moose with in the past are I want to avoid hitting the foreleg (which I try to anyway, so not that big of a change) and I don't think the exit will leave as much blood on the ground. But I've seen enough 30-06s loaded with different bullets not exit too, and have had to make follow up shots even when hit in the vitals because I really don't want to play "lets see how far he goes if I only shoot once". If there is time to stick him again, I stick him again. have done so with 300 WM and 30-06.
So in the end, really not sure how much it changes for me. YMMV. Yes I'll be a bit pickier about shot selection but not to a large degree and don't expect much difference in performance.
It was of coourse being compared to the Creedmoor, and they were touting the CM as "the best 6.5 "
I don't shoot short action across the course or PRS style rifles , but did buy a Creedmoor prefit for my irons rifle because the brass was easy to find and I wanted to mess with the cartridge anyway.As far as velocity and accuracy go, it doesn't do a single thing better in those respects than the 6.5X55 or the 260 , but it wasn't designed to do that anyway.
However , the fact remains that thhe Creedmoor ain't goin' annyywhere soon, or llater for that matter!
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Nah, other than availability or having a real need for the short action mags, I agree...no reason to drop any of those for the other for most of us.
I like efficiency but I wholly admit that its nerdy and subjective haha. Thats why I go for 6.5CM and 7mm-08 over 6.5x55 and 7x57. But someone can like history and thats just as valid, or take advantage of being able to load those two very hot and outperform 6.5 Creed etc.
Theres somethin for everyone
I like efficiency but I wholly admit that its nerdy and subjective haha. Thats why I go for 6.5CM and 7mm-08 over 6.5x55 and 7x57. But someone can like history and thats just as valid, or take advantage of being able to load those two very hot and outperform 6.5 Creed etc.
Theres somethin for everyone
For me it is more about thhe rifles.
I had a 6.5X57 in a very nice Mauser at one time, double set triggers and classsic European style sporter stock.
That was a really nice little rifle and a head turner as well as accurate, but I think my favorite 6.5's have been the 1908 Mannlichers in 6.5X54 MS, I had three of them obver the years.
great little cartridge and one of the smoothest bolt actions ever!
Never stated there was anything wrong with the 6.5 Swede, not once.
I certainly like the 700 Classic I had in 6.5 Swede and were I to go back to a 6.5mm round it be the Swede as a first choice, then maybe a 260 or 260AI if the brass wasnt such a pia to fire form. Possibly a 6.5 PRC if brass becomes widely avail.
The 6.5x55 has probably killed more moose then any other cartridge out there.
A moose doesn't know the difference between a 6.5mm 140 grain projectile if it comes out of a 6.5x55 or a 6.5 Creedmoor, if both projectiles are traveling at relatively the same speeds.
All the .260 cartridges you mention are great, and so is the 6.5 Creedmoor. They all do relatively the same thing, they are very similar, with their small distinct nuances.
