Hate the 6.5 Creedmoor? (10 Reasons Why You Should)
The year is 2007. The shooting world is focused on short magnums and ultra-magnums. An earthquake approaches.
Hornady, releases a new 6.5mm cartridge for long-range target competition. No one foresees the tectonic shift it will initiate. Hornady names it for a famed target shooting competition venue: Creedmoor.
The 6.5 Creedmoor is a quiet hit. It is spooky accurate with little recoil. Perfect for shooting stage after stage at long-range matches.
A decade or so later, other shooters notice the 6.5 Creedmoor’s advantages. A few adventurous souls bring the diminutive cartridge into the hunting field. This ignites a firestorm. Almost overnight it seems, hunters and the mainstream gun media talk about little else. Anyone who shops for a new hunting rifle after 2015 would think gun makers offer just one caliber, 6.5 Creedmoor. The .30-06, .308, .270, and .260 have disappeared from gun shop shelves. Poof. Either you take a 6.5 Creedmoor, or look at used guns.
Then the backlash sets in. More and more people do the math and realize the 6.5 Creedmoor hasn’t broken any real new ground. Its ballistics duplicate the over a century old 6.5 x 55mm Swedish and the somewhat newer .260 Remington. The cartridge develops a deserved reputation for blown primers when loaded hot. So much so, ammo makers download their products on the QT. More and more hunters discover this sanctified cartridge lacks the suds to drop large critters, elk in particular, with consistent authority.
6.5 Creedless, 6.5 Needmore, 6.5 Manbun. Whichever epithet you want to hurl at it, the 6.5 Creedmoor has generated hate more ferocious than a gut shot bear. Hunters are not just sick hearing the outlandish hyperbole vomited by the Creedmoor fan boys, they now realize Robert Ruark was right when he advised, “Bring enough gun.”
Without further ado, here are ten reasons to hate the 6.5 Creedmoor. Is your reason here? Perhaps you’ll find a new one. Get the popcorn warmed, prop your feet up, and watch the Creedmoor hate flow.
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