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Remington Long Range 5R... Have I lost my mind?
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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1245632" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>Thanks. I too am very disappointed in Remington's lack of support. It's a great cartridge, they invented it and the whole reason I jumped on it early (I have an AR in .260) was the fact I "knew" there would always be a good supply of factory ammo and brass available since Remington developed it.</p><p></p><p>The 6.5 CM however came along about the same time and people started winning matches with it and the 6.5x47 Lapua and they pretty well then took the bigger chunk of the market and continue to dominate the 6.5 market here in the US. </p><p></p><p>Truth be told none of them are really much of an improvement over the 6.5 Swede other than the fact they all work better in semi and full auto actions. Ballistically there's so little difference in the CM the Remington and the Swede the latter two are just unnecessarily redundant.</p><p></p><p>At this point of all the Remingtons I own my favorites are this Gen II 5R and my VSSFII in .220 swift.</p><p></p><p>All I had to do with either of them is work on the trigger a bit and bed them to get them both shooting extremely well even with factory ammo.</p><p></p><p>This one is accurate enough and fun enough to shoot it would really be a lot of fun to get out on a prairie dog town and see just how far I could stretch it out and still get consistent hits. That may have to move to the "to do list" before very long.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1245632, member: 30902"] Thanks. I too am very disappointed in Remington's lack of support. It's a great cartridge, they invented it and the whole reason I jumped on it early (I have an AR in .260) was the fact I "knew" there would always be a good supply of factory ammo and brass available since Remington developed it. The 6.5 CM however came along about the same time and people started winning matches with it and the 6.5x47 Lapua and they pretty well then took the bigger chunk of the market and continue to dominate the 6.5 market here in the US. Truth be told none of them are really much of an improvement over the 6.5 Swede other than the fact they all work better in semi and full auto actions. Ballistically there's so little difference in the CM the Remington and the Swede the latter two are just unnecessarily redundant. At this point of all the Remingtons I own my favorites are this Gen II 5R and my VSSFII in .220 swift. All I had to do with either of them is work on the trigger a bit and bed them to get them both shooting extremely well even with factory ammo. This one is accurate enough and fun enough to shoot it would really be a lot of fun to get out on a prairie dog town and see just how far I could stretch it out and still get consistent hits. That may have to move to the "to do list" before very long. [/QUOTE]
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