How the 6.5 Creedmoor Changed shooting forever!
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You can get a Tikka 6.5x55 for about $200 more than your $600 figure, and IMHO it is a better rifle. The extra $200 divided over say 25 years of use is $4 a year, and probably will have better resale value. I only bought a Sako instead because at the time Tikka wasn't making that caliber, if I had it to do over now I'd buy the Tikka although the Sako is definitely a nicer rifle.
Very happy with my Swede for hunting purposes, but for long range or AR I'm sure the CM is the way to go.
Well that's cheating!Lol you can get em if you're patient enough for a retailer to give up on them and slash prices to cut losses and get into the 6.5 cm axis/American/compass, then walk out with a Savage 11 trophy for $400 pre-tax etc
I'll not deny the humor, and I'm as good a .30 basher as the next but misrepresentation does no good for anyone, a 147 vs a 178 would have been more realistic.Cherry picked? Oh no, simply randomly chosen factory loads. Hornady 6.5 Creedmoor 147 gr ELD Match vs Remington 308 Winchester 180 gr Core-Lokt Soft Point.
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That being said, one thing the 6.5 has absolutely done to help the shooting world (not sure changed forever) is provide an easy efficient tool for new shooters in any aspect of the sport to further a boost in numbers and interest. I mean seriously, when was the last time there was a .30x vs a .30y or .28x thread that went paste 3 pages?
That's winningWell that's cheating!
No doubt, I really LIKE Americans, but out of the gate the Tikkas are nicer.
But again for 800 bucks were at about the price you can get a 6.5cm American, or one of the more expensive "cheap" guns for and decent scope for it.
I also sort of wonder about the average buyer caring about how long a particular rifle will be in their possession. With the way we consume stuff now, most folks I know buy a few guns a year, and usually at least one every 4-5 years.
And I'm certainly not against spending more to get something that really WILL be a forever gun, but I just think there's less people out there doing that now than there used to be.
From a hunting perspective, there aren't that many areas around here where you can capitalize on the increased range of the Creedmoor round. Perhaps it would be
very effective in the open plains, out west, where it's flat shooting distance advantage can be brought to bear.
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8mm Lebel was the first (1886) smokeless powder round adopted for military service. It was far more revolutionary than the 7x57mm Mauser (1892), which was pretty much just a necked down 7.9x57 (1888).
The 8mm Lebel was also the first (1898) military cartridge to adopt a boat tailed spitzer projectile.
There's a whole family of X57mm cartridges based on necking the 7X57mrm cartridge up or down, both in Europe and the USA. 6mm Remington and .257 Roberts are ones that quickly come to mind on this side of the pond. 6.5X57mm to 9.3X57 mm bookend this cartridge family in metric notation. The 7X57mm was widely used by hunters including Africa on dangerous game and was even assigned a non-metric cartridge name of 275 Rigby in the UK.
Paul Mauser won a patent infringement case on the .30-06 Springfield cartridge using elements of his design. And the impetus behind development of the. 30-06 Springfield cartridge was experience fighting against troops armed with the 7X57mm Mauser by troops using the .30-40 Krag in the Spanish American War. And we all know there's a LOT of cartridges in the .30-06 Springfield family, wildcat and SAAMI.
How many cartridge families were ever based on the 8mm Lebel design to change rifle shooting forever? Where are records of all the animals bagged by hunters using the 8mm Lebel to change rifle shooting forever?
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