jake545
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Whats the cartridge you LOVE to HATE?
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Starbuck
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I'm with you. One of the biggest problems I had with the CM was that once it got popular, it took everything over. Guns, ammo, components, it's like everything else shut down for awhile. And, as has been mentioned, every flat billed hat, baby Huey looking "bra" you'd run into at the range or on the mountain couldn't wait to tell you about their CM as if it was something special, yet they knew almost nothing about what actually makes it great cartridge.6.5 Creedmoor is Nickleback. Publicly hated privately loved. (You know it) I'm just really annoyed cause for a while every gun on the shelf was a creedmoor. I mean we can't all b hunting elephants and water buffalo.
I did see a browning in 300 Rum with an 8 twist last time at Scheels
Also, I've always thought that a 7mm-08 is a much better all around, low recoiling cartridge with heavies, and it was already established prior to the CM.
I'll add that I don't own either cartridge.
As far as cartridges that I outright dislike, I tend to think everything has a purpose, and I like diversity, especially in my gun cache. But I'd have to say that I've never been big on 270's. I started with one, and I was never overly thrilled with it's performance on a number of deer. I stepped up to various .308's, a .338 and some 35's for deep woods use and never looked back. I do like .284's for far off targets, and to that end I think the 6.8 W would've been much better off as a 7mm WSM with faster twist and throated for heavies. So many more good bullet choices in .284.
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Nearly all the stuff brought out in the last several decades that are very close to existing rounds. Change a little here and there, make it in a faster twist…….you now have your new miraculous long range cartridge.
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Sure!Even the tried and proven 22 Magnum!memtb
Predator 22
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Boy this could be a long list.
Absolute #1 17hmr. Guys around here think it the end all be all varmint round.
270 win is the old school creed.
6.5 creed. Great design degraded by fan boys.
30-30, 308, 30-06 evolution of a turd.
25 cal everything, but in all fairness may need revisiting with the newer bullets coming out.
300 blkout. If you are not running suppressed what's the point?
And everyone knows that you can't kill a elk with anything smaller than a 30 caliber magnum right?
Absolute #1 17hmr. Guys around here think it the end all be all varmint round.
270 win is the old school creed.
6.5 creed. Great design degraded by fan boys.
30-30, 308, 30-06 evolution of a turd.
25 cal everything, but in all fairness may need revisiting with the newer bullets coming out.
300 blkout. If you are not running suppressed what's the point?
And everyone knows that you can't kill a elk with anything smaller than a 30 caliber magnum right?
I'm firmly convinced that a 6.5 creed and a 30 mag is the perfect 2 rifle stable, and struggle to see the usefulness of most anything in between for anything I do (I see the usefulness of 338+ I just don't need them)
Creeds are a lot like Glocks imo, the people you don't like using them should have no bearing on whether it is useful or not. Not using a cartridge because of what another man or woman does with their life is super lame. I don't really even care if people use a 270 it's just sad.
Like when I see people driving a dodge, I want better for them
Creeds are a lot like Glocks imo, the people you don't like using them should have no bearing on whether it is useful or not. Not using a cartridge because of what another man or woman does with their life is super lame. I don't really even care if people use a 270 it's just sad.
Like when I see people driving a dodge, I want better for them
I think he is implying that if the 270 had been introduced with a faster twist, the 6.5 Creedmoor would probably not have come to fruition.
jake545
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I think many of the new rounds are products of marketing more than anything. Faster twist rates with older rounds accomplish the same thing as many of these hot new rounds. Many are searching for a new magical round that prevents misses and is fatal with a hit to the toenail.
Gun companies have gone Hollywood. New remakes of the old. Familiarity with just a little tweak. Makes money for them gives us something to discuss on Sunday nights.
I understand as I have 260rem...............well 6.5creed also along with 243win that'll outrun the 6creed in my ar10 8 twist.
I have three 6.5 Creedmoor rifles, 2 X-Bolt Long Range and a AR15 Performance barreled large frame AR.
The 6.5 Creedmoor gives shooters confidence, low recoil, it has a wide variety of available on the shelf ammo options that are generally very accurate and there are rifles available to fit every budget.
Like others have said, it's the Fudds that ruin it for most, it did for me for a long time, I was a closet user, I had the AR but few knew it and I sure didn't advertise it for fear of being called a fanboi.
The 6.5 Creedmoor gives shooters confidence, low recoil, it has a wide variety of available on the shelf ammo options that are generally very accurate and there are rifles available to fit every budget.
Like others have said, it's the Fudds that ruin it for most, it did for me for a long time, I was a closet user, I had the AR but few knew it and I sure didn't advertise it for fear of being called a fanboi.
A little while back I bought a 6.5 creed in a RRA AR platform. 85 grained at 3500 fps. Fun to shoot.
it's whore-nadyAnything that ends in PRC
Not because they're bad... but you know
Went right over my head , LOL
