The 6.5 mania continues
- Thread starter sheephunter
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That's free market enterprise. If it was left to "common sense", there'd be about three handgun cartridges, three shotgun gauges and five rifle cartridges, because "that's all we really need".
What I see here is making the equivalent of a popular wildcat (6.5 STW) into a factory chambering. Some will disagree, but Nosler for one thinks that it could secure some market share, i.e. sell brass, ammo, firearms and accessories.
I'd happily rechamber my 6.5-300 Win Mag and make use of factory brass and non-custom dies.
Maybe holy short barrel life too...... but what the heck, tons of barrels are made every day...
Wow the deer must be growing yet another layer of Kevlar this year.
Nah. Same old marketing BS.
If ya canna dazzle 'em wit' brilliance.....
Hand out a half dozen of those to some TV show 'celebrities', maybe a co-marketing deal with King Optics or whoever filled THAT malodorous little niche in the food chain, and it should be a commercial success.
Then the internet whinging will begin about how it wouldn't kill a moose that was shot in the butt, from a Km. away, and deer shot from 35 yards get all bloodshot through both shoulders, eh? Oh yeah, recoil will be excessive, and can't get the advertised velocities with loads the missus will shoot!
Did I miss anything?
Give the poor sods at Nosler some credit for working hard. Gotta be a stone summbiotch to come up with something that has not already been done to death and back.
Cheers
Trev (who likely isn't gonna own one, can ya tell?)
So if this cartridge is useless and does not function differently than existing cartridges, does that mean that all existing cartridges are useless also.
I can think of many ways I would use it.
Nosler is going to offer a free barrel with every box of cartridges you buy.
Considering the cost of their ammo that might not be a bad idea..... how many boxes would equal the cost of a barrel ?
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Perhaps a 6.5 Ruger . . . I can't believe you missed a chance to proclaim the latest regality
So what is the 260 Nosler going to do that the 264 Win Mag won't do? It's a flop before it gets out of the gate.
I'm not too sure... but including the cost of labour, would ten boxes about cover it?
That might be just about perfect: 200 rounds down the tube, time for a new barrel and the barrel Nosler sent just arrived in the mail. We might be onto something here.
It will shoot a 130gr bullet faster out of a non belted case.
The New King case would seem to make tdg most sense- especially as Nosler makes 375. Ruger ammo. But that was the tumor I heard.
Nosler has worked with all sorts of different companies. Their bullets are used in other companies ammunition and they load other companies brass.
I guess we will wait for the official announcement to see what the case looks like
Considering who the other ammo manufacturer was, I seriously doubt it.
