I've been shooting Hornady for years and still don't see how they make "middle of the road crap". For example I bought Norma brass for my .300 win mag because it was the only brass available at the time. I got one reload more than Hornady out of it before the necks split. So I paid twice as much for one extra firing, same with the Berger's, I paid $54 a box for the 215's and the 225's ended up shooting far better for $36 a box. If the ELDs had existed at the time and Hornady brass was in stock I could have saved near $200 instead of trying to get the Berger's to shoot.
In regards to the 6.5 Hornady's American Gunner has been some of the most accurate factory ammo I've ever seen. My dad and brother are both shooting it and are getting groups 1/2 MOA and less more often than not in their factory rifles.
Well it's a long action so it should, after all it's got 15 more grains of powder behind it and a 400 FPS velocity advantage. That's kind of like saying "the .257 Weatherby shoots flatter and hits with more energy than the .25-06"
Honestly I don't read all that many articles and such because many times they hype things up far past their capabilities. The 6.5 Creedmoor is simply better at being a long range target cartridge than the .308 while providing better terminal performance on medium size game than the 6mm's. I consider it the happy medium, the best balance between energy and trajectory in a short action with a standard bolt face. It's simple physics, there is only so much energy to make so much weight go a certain speed and still fit in a magazine. There are several 6.5mm cartridges in that performance envelope but of all of them the Creedmoor is the one that has gotten the most support while the diehards keep the others alive.
