Certaindeaf
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The most accurate rifle I've ever had was a model 600 Remington in .243. One hole at 100 yards with a 4X scope. I think I shot 70 grain Sierra's at that time.
Conditioning? Really? Grandpa introduced me to the Sweed some 30 years ago, while he praised it's penetration and terminal performance I don't recall him ever mentioning anything about accuracy, for the next 20 something years I only on VERY rare occasion heard anyone mention the 6.5x55 and never ran into another Sweed fan until I joined THR a few years back. I think my opinion of the Sweed is my own and not the result of some sort of propaganda.Almost to the paragraph everything you outline can be said about 7x57mauser to. Yet why aren't we all cooco for cocoo puffs about this round?
You think some conditioning by the internet and gun media might be playing a role here?
Absolutely
You touch on it in your last paragraph, its a legend with its own self perpetrating mythology.
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Almost to the paragraph everything you outline can be said about 7x57mauser to. Yet why aren't we all cooco for cocoo puffs about this round?
The 7.62x54 has fought two wars with itself, and won both times.for some strange reason, the 7.62 x 51 aka .308 has been taking out bad guys for our soldiers since Viet Nam and still doing it, and unlike so many cartridges that are scarcer than a Republican at a jane fonda appreciation dinner, are still easy to find.
Badabingo. If you're a paper shooter at fixed/known ranges, especially 100 yards, it don't matter.. as long as you can kill that 1/1000 shots fired deer at 100 yards. Only in field shooting is flat goodness realized, but then again you could always use a good rangefinder and lob one fair..Fixed distance shooting care none about trajectory..