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You are 100% correct, and the M1A can do that as-is (.308 Win), within it's limitations very well. But outside of that 500-600 yard accuracy limitation the rifle itself has, it won't matter what cartridge it's chambered for. You can buy and/or load your own match .308 Win ammo for the same price as match 6.5CM ammo. Therefore having an M1A in 6.5CM is nothing more than just another chambering option, and not some super-progressive step forward, although every gun media rag and their brother has been hyping it up and whoring it out already. Unless SA decides to start buying Bartlein, Brux, or Rock Creek blanks for their M1A's of all calibers to increase their rifles' accuracy. Those rifles were never designed to perform better than 1.5 to 2 MOA, even the National Match models.
No doubt, and if Springfield has actually IMPROVED the M1A's production practices and parts that every M1A out there is going to be able to obtain these levels of accuracy (instead of them putting out a few unicorn prototypes to the gun media sites to get the hype up, and then the production models aren't quite as accurate) then I guess the $2,100 price tag is not as bad as it seemed before. But it's still a bit on the pricey side, but, you expect the high price tag from a SA product. Your average person will still go out and build an AR-10 or buy a 6.5CM bolt gun for 1/2 to 2/3 of that and produce the same effect.
Anyone else's skin crawl when he said that? He's insinuating that the .308 Win is old and outdated... That's the typical car salesman pitch, telling you what you want to hear, by putting down last year's "old and outdated" model to try to sell you this year's model for a much higher price and much juicier commission. Anyone who's messed with a .308 Win with modern bullets, brass, and powder knows that "old and outdated" line is bullcrap.
At least your persistent MudOh God... So now he's trying to say the 6.5CM has become "this generation's" .308 Win?
Then again, the 6.5CM is pretty comparable to the idiot hipsters of this generation...So, maybe it is...But only until the next coolest trend comes along, then they'll all decide to become .338 Lapuas...Oh wait, .300 WinMags. Crap! .26 Noslers? Dammit! They've already trend-whored all those out, too. HAHAHA!!!
Oh God... So now he's trying to say the 6.5CM has become "this generation's" .308 Win?
Then again, the 6.5CM is pretty comparable to the idiot hipsters of this generation...So, maybe it is...But only until the next coolest trend comes along, then they'll all decide to become .338 Lapuas...Oh wait, .300 WinMags. Crap! .26 Noslers? Dammit! They've already trend-whored all those out, too. HAHAHA!!!
At least your persistent Mud
I know, but it's still an internet forum where opinions are shared. And even my dissenting opinion is just as relevant as your approving opinion. They're all opinions, and they're only worth how much stock we put into them, and if someone else wants to put stock in them as well, that's great, if not, that's their choice.
