Thing is I do think there is a chance it will stick. People that never shot in their lifes sometimes used to run out and grab a 300 win mag for their first gun with a scope at a bargain price and hock it when they learn about recoil. I think now they might grab a 6.5 creedmoor instead. Why would someone like that even know about it? Marketing!

IMO this is where you're way off base. The reason someone would know about it is from solid, reliable sources that actually shoot and kill stuff with it....word of mouth is the best advertisement bar none. I don't like the stupid, outlandish claims made by some 6.5 shooter either, but they are just that, ridiculous. Anyone with half a clue can sort out the ridiculous claims from the real world examples rather quickly. I became a believer after listening to Hodnett sing the virtues, and Formid over on 24HCF who sees 500,000 rds per year go down range does as well. No sane individual can refute these types of testimonials. There is nothing not to like about the 6.5CM package.

BTW, Barsness reports it is the runaway best seller in South Africa nowdays as well. They cull thousands upon thousands of animals every year over there with them.

You would think it's nothing short of a miracle that so much wild game was taken before the cartridge became available.

You would think it's nothing short of a miracle that so much wild game was taken before the cartridge became available.

You would think it's nothing short of a miracle that so much wild game was taken before the cartridge became available.

This is why the 6.5 Creedmoor got popular. I had never heard of it until PRS guys started winning with them. The interest from the professional long-range shooters trickled down to the amateur and weekend shooters that wanted something better than their hunting rifles to shoot over 1000 yards. It was after the fact, that people realized the 6.5 Creedmoor is a legitimate hunting cartridge when it's loaded with the proper bullets. And it's been snowballing ever since.

FWIW, I do think the 6.5 CM is a great replacement for the .243 as a chambering for a first hunting rifle. It's nearly unbeatable in that role.

Also I think too, we are gonna have to admit to ourselves at some point that technology has made some cartridges superior to others.

Just gonna have to face facts here.

I’m also questioning why some cartridges exist anymore at all?

Take the .280 AI....7mm rem mag performance, in nosler it actually is 25 FPS faster, less kick etc.

Why do companies still chamber the 7mm rem at all?


I think in the next 25 years you will see less diversity. People will gravitate to only using a few cartridges across the board

First off, good choices on the list.
The 6.5 Creedmoor doesn’t do anything that savvy handloaders haven’t been doing with several of the cartridges on that list for some time.
Long range shooting used to be a handloaders game. Compiling DOPE and understanding how to take up backlash in a scope for reliable dialing was an art and not practiced by many. Advancements in turrets and very functional reticles along with good user friendly ballistic programs simplified things a lot but it was still pretty much a handloaders game with a few exceptions like a 308 and federal gold metal match.
Then Hornady brought long range to the non hand loading masses with the Creedmore. All of a sudden Mr average joe can buy a rifle and scope. Buy the software. Go to town and buy pretty damn good long range ammo off the shelf, and boom, Mr average joe, with no special knowledge could dabble at long range. If they were already fairly skilled riflemen, with the exception of doping the wind, the learning curve smalled way up.
The Creedmore freight train is a lot more than marketing hype. It brought long range shooting to the non handloaders. Which by far is the majority of shooters. Word of that spread like wildfire on the internet. Quality components readily available quickly followed for us handloaders.
As far as any legitimate performance superiority, nope. Performance wise it does not even quite match the old Swede (unless you are shooting factory ammo). Nor is there any special magic in a short action.

And if you don't handload............????

Spend some time shooting various rifles instead of being "an internet guy" that doesn't know what he's talking about.

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Thread makes me laugh.

The 6.5 Creedmoor is popular for one reason mainly.

Hornady did an outstanding making ammo for it. Few cartridges mfg can say from batch to batch they are as consistent as what Hornady produced from the get go.

Now the sub reasons are just icing on the cake(recoil, report, efficiency, etc)