I bet we have a lot more experienced riflemen on this board than the typical average buyer of the 6.5 CM
I can say with certainty, this is absolutely impossible to be true.
By forum statistics provided here, there are less than 1/4 million registered users here at THR, and acknowledging that a goodly portion of these are NOT experienced riflemen by any definition, or even riflemen at all.
Comparatively, there were over 1 million Ruger Precision Rifles sold between their release in July 2015 and ~Aug 2022, with a slight majority of those having been chambered for 6.5 Creedmoor over any other cartridge offered. Even considering the same average pace (acknowledging production and sales standstills for covid during ~1yr of those 7yrs), in the year and a half since that announcement was made, Ruger has sold ALMOST as many Precision Rifles as we have members here (215k rifles vs. 233k members)…
Considering that there are a LOT of other models on the market than just the Ruger Precision Rifle, and considering there are around 20 million guns sold in the US every year, and handgun sales being about 3x that of rifles, and rifles about 2x that of shotguns, that’s around 3.3 MILLION rifles being sold every year, with the RPR only making up ~143k of those…
It’s a pretty safe bet that THR does not represent the pinnacle nor majority of American “experienced riflemen,” and certainly more of these marksmen exist outside of THR membership, with a great number of them even owning 6.5 Creedmoor’s…
It’s probably accurate to modify the claim, however, to state that there are far more folks on THR who think themselves to be “experienced riflemen,” than there actually are.
the Swede has long been a favorite among the knowledgeable, discerning riflemen and is still quite popular in Europe.
This sure sounds cute, but there are over 5x guns owned in the US than in the entire EU, with 4-5x more gun owners in the US than the EU, despite almost 100m MORE people living in the EU. The US runs the world in a lot of games - soccer might not be one of them, but when it comes to music/movies, guns, and technology development and industrialization, there’s nobody else in the world which comes close. The EU boasts only ~15 firearms owned per 100 people, whereas in the US, we have around 125 firearms owned per 100 people… we sell more NEW guns every 4 years than the entire EU has in their sub-continent…
As a perspective on scaling - redistributing the firearms in the EU would only put a gun in the hands of about 1 in every 6 people. Doing the same in the US would put a gun in the hands of EVERY American, and still have around 100 million more guns left over to put in the empty hands of those EU folks - which is 20 million more than the EU had to begin with!!! So saying 6.5 Swede is popular in the EU is kinda like describing which triathlon bicycle is popular at fat camp - EU opinions as a demographic really aren’t substantial…