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Why no love for the 6.5 Rem Mag?
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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1253890" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>The 6.5's lost popularity in the US with the advent of the 7mm RM.</p><p></p><p>The revival of the 6.5's coincided with the military looking for a better cartridge for battlefield conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan and the 6.5CM, 6.5x47L and .260 were then designed to work in AR platform rifles with short barrels.</p><p></p><p>The 6.5RM is a neat little cartridge but it doesn't offer a significant increase in performance over the existing 6.5's all of which will work in short actions with standard bolt faces. On top of all that, belted magnum's have lost popularity and with the expense and rarity of the custom brass required to load it, it just isn't going anywhere.</p><p></p><p>It's performance in comparison with the .264wm is about 150-200fps less with the same bullets, same barrel length. I actually considered getting one for my wife but the .260 suits her just fine and there's no shortage of reasonably priced high quality brass for the .260.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1253890, member: 30902"] The 6.5's lost popularity in the US with the advent of the 7mm RM. The revival of the 6.5's coincided with the military looking for a better cartridge for battlefield conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan and the 6.5CM, 6.5x47L and .260 were then designed to work in AR platform rifles with short barrels. The 6.5RM is a neat little cartridge but it doesn't offer a significant increase in performance over the existing 6.5's all of which will work in short actions with standard bolt faces. On top of all that, belted magnum's have lost popularity and with the expense and rarity of the custom brass required to load it, it just isn't going anywhere. It's performance in comparison with the .264wm is about 150-200fps less with the same bullets, same barrel length. I actually considered getting one for my wife but the .260 suits her just fine and there's no shortage of reasonably priced high quality brass for the .260. [/QUOTE]
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