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What if the 6.5 PRC had preceded the 6.5 Creedmoor?
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<blockquote data-quote="Greyfox" data-source="post: 1901973" data-attributes="member: 10291"><p>It's a good question that we will never know the answer for sure. I personally think that were the 6.5 PRC introduced first, it would not have had the equivalent acceptance that the CM had. The CM gained traction and popularly as a shooters cartridge with the Ruger PR and the ramp up of PRS competition. All this brought attention to the 6.5's ballistic potential which was fairly obscure, at least in the US. The initial impact of the CM was the ballistic performance in long range targets.....Hunting applications followed. Were the PRC introduced as a hunting cartridge, the market acceptance may have been far more clouded with the many variables and multitude of preferences present when hunting is a primary purpose. As a target round, the trend had already begun to drift towards dimensional smaller cartridges, as demonstrated by the 6.5x284 replacements. IMO, introducing the CM first was the smart move.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greyfox, post: 1901973, member: 10291"] It’s a good question that we will never know the answer for sure. I personally think that were the 6.5 PRC introduced first, it would not have had the equivalent acceptance that the CM had. The CM gained traction and popularly as a shooters cartridge with the Ruger PR and the ramp up of PRS competition. All this brought attention to the 6.5’s ballistic potential which was fairly obscure, at least in the US. The initial impact of the CM was the ballistic performance in long range targets.....Hunting applications followed. Were the PRC introduced as a hunting cartridge, the market acceptance may have been far more clouded with the many variables and multitude of preferences present when hunting is a primary purpose. As a target round, the trend had already begun to drift towards dimensional smaller cartridges, as demonstrated by the 6.5x284 replacements. IMO, introducing the CM first was the smart move. [/QUOTE]
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