6.8 western rifle

[Llama Bob]

dont worry, you wont find one... I looked for 2 months.

and they are straight shotgun style stocks.

Well that makes it easy - I'm done shooting magnum cartridges in straight stock 1885s. It's just no fun IMO.

 

[Phaedrus/69]

agghhhh! another vile newcomer!!!!

I tease.....I went the Grendel and a case of steel route myself, my 527 didn't care for it, so I built an AR upper to eat it....that one actually shot it pretty well.

I really don't hunt anymore. I might do a bear hunt with a buddy of mine but for the most part I'm more gun nut and plinker than hunter. For me a 6.5 G would be perfect for murdering tin cans and paper targets out to 600 meters or so. Back before the world ended you could get steel 6.5G ammo @ $200/1000 and even though I don't have a rifle I kick myself for not getting a case or two of ammo. I searched the stores for a Howa Mini in 6.5 for years and couldn't find one, but now that the ammo is gone I see tons of the rifles for sale. Go figure! At any rate I figured steel would be great for cheap plinking and a guy could get a few boxes of good brass cased stuff for serious use and maybe for game up to deer if necessary.

An AR in 6.5 would be slick, and I might get an upper if the ammo ever comes back.

 

[TheClasonater]

Perhaps true, but if you handload you could get between 100-200 rounds of factory ammo and more or less set for life (depending on how much you shoot, natch). The life of the barrel will probably be 1k-1.5k. If you buy it to shoot some kind of competition then maybe this isn't a great plan. But for a guy who wants to hunt with it and stay sharp between seasons a couple hundred rounds of ammo with an eye towards reloading the brass should have you set.

Hey, you're totally right. Most of the guys in my little hunting community don't, however, even for as much as they shoot, follow the reloader or rainy day--buy for life--mentality. I even got caught flat-footed in this newest panic buy with two of my favorite rounds. won't happen again, GARuntee that.

 

[GAF]

Not including the various AR calibers, I think for relatively new cartridges only the 6.5 CM and 300 WSM have real staying power as commonly used big game rounds. Of course people will be playing around with 325 WSM, 8mm Rem Mag, 7mm STW, 338 Federal and 6.8 Western for the next hundred years.

I think history is the best indicator of cartridge longevity. Now I think I have strayed in to captain obvious territory.

 

[IdaD]

Not including the various AR calibers, I think for relatively new cartridges only the 6.5 CM and 300 WSM have real staying power as commonly used big game rounds. Of course people will be playing around with 325 WSM, 8mm Rem Mag, 7mm STW, 338 Federal and 6.8 Western for the next hundred years.

I may trim your list down to the Creedmoor and then agree. In my neck of the woods most still seem to hunt with a 30-06. Throw in a 308, 270, 243, 30-30, 300 Win Mag, 7mm Rem Mag, and the aforementioned Creedmoor and you've covered the vast bulk of the big game cartridge market in the US. There are other calibers out there, including my personal favorite (7mm-08), but they don't amount to much at all. I don't anticipate most of the newer niche cartridges will stick around in any significant way.