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Why the 6.5 caliber?
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<blockquote data-quote="Roughwater" data-source="post: 1780378" data-attributes="member: 33915"><p>I belive it's a combination of things that all worked together well that made this round so popular so quick. Slightly larger diameter than the 6mm/243 caliber. I always felt that the 243 is a great little round that never quite made it as good as it could have been due to it's generally limited 10 twist factory barrels. The 6.5 gun manufactures right off the bat came out with faster twist barrels allowing this smallish diameter round to shoot heavy, High BC bullets for caliber.</p><p>Again, something the 243 could not generally do well as the 10 twist limited the weight and BC of the bullet that it could fire accuractly. It's also a very suitable size and weight bullet for deer at long or short range which eveyone hunts. There are always some of us wanting to try something new, well to some extent this was or is it. Ammo, reloading supplies, powders etc all became available pretty quickly as did inexpensive rifles. With several 6.5 rounds now you don't have to buy a expensive custom or semi-custom rifle to be able to shoot the round. Also it's a near perfect round for a young hunter to start out with at least in the case of the smaller 6.5's like the Creedmoor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roughwater, post: 1780378, member: 33915"] I belive it's a combination of things that all worked together well that made this round so popular so quick. Slightly larger diameter than the 6mm/243 caliber. I always felt that the 243 is a great little round that never quite made it as good as it could have been due to it's generally limited 10 twist factory barrels. The 6.5 gun manufactures right off the bat came out with faster twist barrels allowing this smallish diameter round to shoot heavy, High BC bullets for caliber. Again, something the 243 could not generally do well as the 10 twist limited the weight and BC of the bullet that it could fire accuractly. It's also a very suitable size and weight bullet for deer at long or short range which eveyone hunts. There are always some of us wanting to try something new, well to some extent this was or is it. Ammo, reloading supplies, powders etc all became available pretty quickly as did inexpensive rifles. With several 6.5 rounds now you don't have to buy a expensive custom or semi-custom rifle to be able to shoot the round. Also it's a near perfect round for a young hunter to start out with at least in the case of the smaller 6.5's like the Creedmoor. [/QUOTE]
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