By do-everything, they're talking about it being the best at hunting, target shooting, PRS-style shooting, etc.

Sure, a 7RM will take an elk, but you'd get your arse kicked in PRS with it, and probably wouldn't fare well in any type of normal target shooting because it's punishing to shoot any reasonable number of rounds with. You can buy a 6.5 CM and use that for regular target shooting, long range shooting, PRS, and hunting, and not only is it not poorly suited for any of those, but you don't even have to load your own ammo to do it. It's basically a 270 for hunting and a 308 for long range, with less recoil than both and really good factory ammo for both purposes. Identical to those? No, but close enough that most folks wouldn't ever notice a difference. The 6.5 isn't falling or going anywhere for a long, long time.

The 270, 25-06, 30-30, etc. will be gone once the over-40 crowd has stopped hunting. Almost nobody under 40 shoots those calibers at all, or ever will.

I feel like the 30-06 has a different following that may hold on a bit longer, but it'll eventually fall by the wayside too.

The 6.5 may fall by the wayside too, but it would take something truly revolutionary to replace it. It's such an obscenely well-designed and well-supported cartridge that to improve upon it to the point that people are willing to adopt a new cartridge, it's gonna have to be way better.

I feel like a whole lot of yall just sit there after work drinking beer and posting stuff on the forum all night.

In my mind I could imagine JG and a dozen others spraying beer out of their noses and spinning and jumping up and down like the taxmanian devil, when I posted that about Creedmoor and tikka.

Any/all of the ailing Ruger cartridges or are those already pretty much dead?

The RCM's were dead right from the start. Ruger was the last one to the table in terms of short mags and by the time they were released the short mag craze was not new anymore. Sad because there was a lot of bang in those little rounds.

WHEWW!!

Ok, I just read this from start to finish.

Bottom line: Shoot whatever you want.

I will keep my .243 because that is the gun my son shot his first deer with. My.270 I will keep because I took my first Texas whitetail with it. And the .300 wby mag I just purchased I will enjoy and pass down. I don't believe the .270's and .243's will be going anywhere anytime soon. When my generation stops hunting, the kids and grandkids will get them and hopefully think of me when using them to take an animal...

It is very entertaining to say the least. I don't see anyone changing their minds based upon this thread though...

30-06, 30-30, and 308 are about all I shoot... and I’m just over half of your listed age....

Goes for most of my buddies too.

Notice that you only keep those calibers for sentimental reasons.

If you choose calibers based on ballistics, recoil, performance in competition, and performance in hunting, there are really only a few to pick from that make much sense at all for anything other than specialized purposes.

Notice that you only keep those calibers for sentimental reasons.

If you choose calibers based on ballistics, recoil, performance in competition, and performance in hunting, there are really only a few to pick from that make much sense at all for anything other than specialized purposes.

You are not that important to me.

WHEWW!!

Ok, I just read this from start to finish.

Bottom line: Shoot whatever you want.

I will keep my .243 because that is the gun my son shot his first deer with. My.270 I will keep because I took my first Texas whitetail with it. And the .300 wby mag I just purchased I will enjoy and pass down. I don't believe the .270's and .243's will be going anywhere anytime soon. When my generation stops hunting, the kids and grandkids will get them and hopefully think of me when using them to take an animal...

It is very entertaining to say the least. I don't see anyone changing their minds based upon this thread though...

I remembered posting. I might not have remembered exactly what all I said. I see that I got a gerbil involved in the conversation. Poor little fella.

Yeah sure, but creedmoor and tikka probably are...

So it is your position that outside of sentimental reasons these calibers are of no use? WOW, what an incredibly ignorant statement. I can put 5 rounds on a quarter at 200 yards with any of these. you keep punching paper. I am sure it fills the manhood void you otherwise have in your life when you put 3 into a half inch against a paper target with your specialized caliber.

This forum is very range/competition/shooting centric. The vast majority of people are not range/competition nuts. At all. For most the range is simply a place folks go to check zero/shoot a little prior to hunting season and competitive rifle shooting is not something 98% of people take part in.

LR and competition shooting are the “specialized purposes”. Shooting a rifle at 1200 yards is the “specialized purpose”. Most don’t do that or have any interest in doing it. A LR rig to shoot at 1000 yards plus is a helluva lot more “specialized” than a .30-30 for the vast majority of people. I carry a levergun constantly on my place and it’s a heckuva a lot more practical and useful than any sniper rifle ever would be.

Hunting at ranges of 400 and under is how the vast majority of rifle owners use their rifles. There are dozens and dozens of cartridges that work just fine for that. Basically anything from .24 caliber thru .33 caliber that will push a bullet in the mid-2000 fps on up. And as the max range decreases the number of caliber choices increase.

Nowhere did I say that at all. I said that the person who posted the original comment said that the reason they had those rifles was because they had sentimental value, not because they're better tools for the job. Reading comprehension - try to think about what someone's saying before you call them ignorant please.

The vast majority of people I know with guns are not hunters, but guys who go to the range to have a good time. They don't shoot competitions, might hunt once a year or might not, and don't buy guns that are only good at range shooting, or only good at hunting. They buy stuff that can do both, which is why the 6.5 is such a popular cartridge.

As for rifle sales, the competition shooters buy way, way more stuff than the hunters.

I have a 30-30 that's literally never been out of the safe except to check function. My point - we are not all the same, and not everyone is like you.

Can we get a pissing contest emoji? I've seen it on other sites.