That's hard for a lot of people to wrap their head around.

The 6.5 creedmoor crowd earns their ridicule sir. In no way is the ridicule directed at the performance of the 6.5 creedmoor. It duplicates what the Swede has been doing for well over a century. Failure to wrap their heads around what the creedmoor does being old technology and old news. Some of the members on this forum have been quietly drinking that koolaid for a half a century.

The 6.5 creedmoor crowd earns their ridicule sir. In no way is the ridicule directed at the performance of the 6.5 creedmoor. It duplicates what the Swede has been doing for well over a century. Failure to wrap their heads around what the creedmoor does being old technology and old news. Some of the members on this forum have been quietly drinking that koolaid for a half a century.

Exactly the same if you load.

It’s my opinion that the 6.5 cm is one of the best cartridges in existence. It’s done what the 6.5 Swede failed to do ( because of weak watered down ammo) and the .260 Remington failed to do (because of typical poor marketing by Remington). Hornady created a great cartridge for both hunters and target shooters and applied their magical marketing and made it a success. It only took off in the last 10 years it was around since 2008 but wasn’t popular right from the get go.

My ridicule for the 6.5 crowd comes from people acting like it’s some magical round that is not only suitable, but ideal, for every animal walking the earth short of a Cape buffalo. It’s a stellar deer sized game round, but it ain’t a .300 win mag.


For a general hunting cartridge for deer ( which is what 90% of hunters are after) , it’s a excellent choice. For a western big game cartridge or a do-all NA round, I would want more horsepower than what the 6.5 cm will offer.

It will do 97% of what the .270 win will do, it’s just a more modern round in a short action round

500 yards and in, that oughta cover about 95% of all hunters?

You got the short action part right. Copying the sweede(which had already been done with the 260).Advertising and manufacturing good ammunition to let the non handloaders dabble at long range was Hornady’s win. Efficient shoulder angle, enough twist to shoot heavy bullets and even the velocity they are pushed at is copied from the Sweede. Duping the masses into believing it is cutting edge new stuff was where Hornady hit a home run.

Exactly the same if you load.

You're well aware that I do.

Hand loaders are still by far the minority of hunters/shooters.

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Fixed it, sorry to trigger you there.

You know, one could call the 6.5 Creedmore the Taylor Swift of rifle cartridges. Both are popular with the young. Both are heavily marketed. Both are the most searched on google. And like Taylor Swift tickets, both are breaking records for sales. But nothing about that makes me think of Texas when I hear someone talk about either.

You know, one could call the 6.5 Creedmore the Taylor Swift of rifle cartridges. Both are popular with the young. Both are heavily marketed. Both are the most searched on google. And like Taylor Swift tickets, both are breaking records for sales. But nothing about that makes me think of Texas when I hear someone talk about either.

It seems the 6.5CM is the most popular in the 5 pages of this thread.

The 5% are very vocal.

Yes sir I am aware of both. You are well aware the hundred year old sweede and the 15 year old creedmoor are ballistic twins.

Edit to add: I voted for the 30-06 and FYI I load and shoot both the 6.5 Swede and the 6.5 CM.