mustanger98
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For those big game hunters that limit their shots to under 350 yards or so then I also feel the true advantages of the 6.5 Creedmoor are negated except for one, lower recoil.
Lower recoil is the reason I went 6.5x55 over the .270 I’ve been hunting with most of my life. In reality the 6.5’s give me no other advantage except for recoil since I don’t shoot further than 350 yards, give or take a yard or two.
How far you shoot depends some on where you live... we're talking 6.5x55 vs 6.8x63 and some of us live where 200yds is a long shot. Seems to me, for reduced recoil with a workable trajectory, somebody'd have to experiment with the Swede and the .270 side by side to really know a perception of advantage. Unless we're only talking factory-loaded ammo... whatever's on the shelf for one vs whatever's on the shelf for the other.