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6.5/06 advantage?
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<blockquote data-quote="mgood" data-source="post: 1101550" data-attributes="member: 91188"><p>Metric calibers tend to not be all that successful here in the U.S. other than the cult of 7mm enthusiasts. And the 6.5mm-06 sits between the very popular 25-06 Rem and the HUGELY popular 270 Win. I've been doing a lot of reading and find that there are quite a few variations on the basic 6.5-06 idea; 6.5-06 A-Square (was a factory loaded cartridge at least by A-Square before they went out of business, might still be made by someone), 6.5-06 Ackley Improved, 6.5x64mm Brenneke (was available from Brenneke, at least in Europe, might still be), 6.5-280 Ackley Improved, 264 Hawk (available from Hawk Cartridges), 6.5 Gibbs, and probably others. We're talking about one wildcat developed by a guy on an internet forum, not someone at a big ammo company or firearm company. If it gets popular enough, who knows what could happen? Many factory rounds were originally wildcats. Right now, I see it as the best of the bunch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mgood, post: 1101550, member: 91188"] Metric calibers tend to not be all that successful here in the U.S. other than the cult of 7mm enthusiasts. And the 6.5mm-06 sits between the very popular 25-06 Rem and the HUGELY popular 270 Win. I've been doing a lot of reading and find that there are quite a few variations on the basic 6.5-06 idea; 6.5-06 A-Square (was a factory loaded cartridge at least by A-Square before they went out of business, might still be made by someone), 6.5-06 Ackley Improved, 6.5x64mm Brenneke (was available from Brenneke, at least in Europe, might still be), 6.5-280 Ackley Improved, 264 Hawk (available from Hawk Cartridges), 6.5 Gibbs, and probably others. We're talking about one wildcat developed by a guy on an internet forum, not someone at a big ammo company or firearm company. If it gets popular enough, who knows what could happen? Many factory rounds were originally wildcats. Right now, I see it as the best of the bunch. [/QUOTE]
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