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.260 vs 6.5 Creedmore
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<blockquote data-quote="SavageHunter11" data-source="post: 1776156" data-attributes="member: 100006"><p>6mm Remington is better all around than the 243 Winchester and yet you can't easily find rifle chambered in 6mm Rem but the new and used market is full of rifles in 243win. The 270 Winchester is mostly only as popular as it is because Jack O'Connor spouted off about it for 4 decades in Outdoor Life when the numbers show the 280 Remington is the better cartridge. Again, you don't find 280 Remington's in any significant numbers anywhere on the shelf or in gun safes but everyone and their dad has a 270 Winchester it seems. Just more examples of how good marketing can push a slightly inferior cartridge into the mainstream regardless of the ballistics.</p><p></p><p> Mind you, this is all coming from someone who shoots a 6.5 Creedmoor and who compared 260 Rem, 6.5 Creedmoor, and 6.5x47 Lapua for over two years before he settled on a 6.5 Creedmoor. There's more reasons as to why I shoot a 6.5 Creedmoor now over the other two than just ballistics. There's inherent accuracy, availability of components (both reloading and rifle), ability to seat longer bullets further out, etc, and etc. It's not as simple as looking at a ballistics table. If it was we would have a single cartridge for each caliber in the various action lengths and that would be that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SavageHunter11, post: 1776156, member: 100006"] 6mm Remington is better all around than the 243 Winchester and yet you can't easily find rifle chambered in 6mm Rem but the new and used market is full of rifles in 243win. The 270 Winchester is mostly only as popular as it is because Jack O'Connor spouted off about it for 4 decades in Outdoor Life when the numbers show the 280 Remington is the better cartridge. Again, you don't find 280 Remington's in any significant numbers anywhere on the shelf or in gun safes but everyone and their dad has a 270 Winchester it seems. Just more examples of how good marketing can push a slightly inferior cartridge into the mainstream regardless of the ballistics. Mind you, this is all coming from someone who shoots a 6.5 Creedmoor and who compared 260 Rem, 6.5 Creedmoor, and 6.5x47 Lapua for over two years before he settled on a 6.5 Creedmoor. There's more reasons as to why I shoot a 6.5 Creedmoor now over the other two than just ballistics. There's inherent accuracy, availability of components (both reloading and rifle), ability to seat longer bullets further out, etc, and etc. It's not as simple as looking at a ballistics table. If it was we would have a single cartridge for each caliber in the various action lengths and that would be that. [/QUOTE]
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