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Good article on why everyone either loves or hates the 6.5cr
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<blockquote data-quote="CMP70306" data-source="post: 2201122" data-attributes="member: 36999"><p>Not really sure that a single person who is vastly over confident in his cheap gear is really a reason to write off an entire cartridge. Heck my brother had one of his buddies with a Savage axis combo gun tell him straight up that he was going to out shoot my brother at 600 yards. My brothers RPR shoots easily sub 1/2 MOA with Hornady American Gunner, he hit the steel every shot and his buddy didn't hit it once.</p><p></p><p>Availability was my number one concern when I picked the Creedmoor several years ago. My Dad likes X-Bolts and my brother wanted a target rifle but didn't want to spend custom money, the Creedmoor was chambered in pretty much every rifle model you could find. A quick look on Midway has 3 rifles chambered in 260, 2 chambered in 6.5x55, zero in 6.5x47 and 117 chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor.</p><p></p><p>For ammo American Gunner ammo cost $0.70 a round compared to $1.25+ for other match ammo and was within a couple cents of what I could load for without the days worth of work. Now that all has been shot up we are sitting on a trove of once fired brass that will last several rifles and still cost us less than buying new brass from any of the competing cartridges.</p><p></p><p>The choice was simple as only the 6.5 Creedmoor fit all of my criteria for a target cartridge. Are there cartridges with better ballistics? Sure which is why my hunting rifle is a 6.5 PRC however I only got 1000 rounds out of my PRC barrel before it crashed compared to the 2000 my brother has on his RPR that is still shooting great groups.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CMP70306, post: 2201122, member: 36999"] Not really sure that a single person who is vastly over confident in his cheap gear is really a reason to write off an entire cartridge. Heck my brother had one of his buddies with a Savage axis combo gun tell him straight up that he was going to out shoot my brother at 600 yards. My brothers RPR shoots easily sub 1/2 MOA with Hornady American Gunner, he hit the steel every shot and his buddy didn’t hit it once. Availability was my number one concern when I picked the Creedmoor several years ago. My Dad likes X-Bolts and my brother wanted a target rifle but didn’t want to spend custom money, the Creedmoor was chambered in pretty much every rifle model you could find. A quick look on Midway has 3 rifles chambered in 260, 2 chambered in 6.5x55, zero in 6.5x47 and 117 chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor. For ammo American Gunner ammo cost $0.70 a round compared to $1.25+ for other match ammo and was within a couple cents of what I could load for without the days worth of work. Now that all has been shot up we are sitting on a trove of once fired brass that will last several rifles and still cost us less than buying new brass from any of the competing cartridges. The choice was simple as only the 6.5 Creedmoor fit all of my criteria for a target cartridge. Are there cartridges with better ballistics? Sure which is why my hunting rifle is a 6.5 PRC however I only got 1000 rounds out of my PRC barrel before it crashed compared to the 2000 my brother has on his RPR that is still shooting great groups. [/QUOTE]
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