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It's really just marketing a specialized product to the masses. Truth be told, unless you're target shooting at known long range distances the actual difference between the 112 year old 30-06 with a decent bullet and anything else in "MOST" North American hunting situations is nil. Dead is dead, you can't engineer or design for a deader deer. This is really all about marketers creating a fake need that their clients can fill by selling you a new 321 Whizbang, and we eat it up because it promises greater/easier success for a cash investment. The better thing to do would be to increase trigger time behind that old -06 and increase your lethality that way. People are easy to manipulate for a good marketer. If folks would stop reading/watching the promotional garbage they call outdoor entertainment and spend more time having experiences with the good equipment they already have instead of spending money to have more things, they would be much happier. Study after study proves this out.But marketers and their client companies need us to be unsatisfied... So we will continue to have the 6.5 Creedmor and its kin.
Try comparing the 6.5 Creedmor to the 270 Winchester. The 6.5's got nothing on that old cartridge. Introduced in 1925, and nearly 100 years later they come up with the 6.5 Creedmor. How's it any better in any way? Maybe less recoil, that's about it.
Quote from: bobcat on January 29, 2018, 07:42:01 PMTry comparing the 6.5 Creedmor to the 270 Winchester. The 6.5's got nothing on that old cartridge. Introduced in 1925, and nearly 100 years later they come up with the 6.5 Creedmor. How's it any better in any way? Maybe less recoil, that's about it. The 270 needs a longer action than the Creedmoor. Last time I tried to cycle 270 through a short action it didn't work so well.....As much as I dislike the Creedmoor, it does work very well for the guys who have them. Even if it means that they have a man bun and carry around a Kestrel which they twirl around like an Olympic ribbon dancer to "zero" the unit.
I like my 2506 for flat shooting within reason. Its better than the 6.5 at doing just that. Beyond reason, past 700 yards, the 6.5 shines. Figure out the holdover of your favorite cartridges at 1500 yards.
Quote from: Wanttohuntmore on January 29, 2018, 08:23:32 PMI like my 2506 for flat shooting within reason. Its better than the 6.5 at doing just that. Beyond reason, past 700 yards, the 6.5 shines. Figure out the holdover of your favorite cartridges at 1500 yards.The hold over on my favorite long range cartridge at 1500 yards is confirmed as 9.8 MILs. Beat that with the Creedmoor. 👍