6.5 creed magnum

[Coopsdaddy]

What will it do to the 6cm market.
Hopes of more factory 6cm ammo sense tikka is making them but I bet a lot will hold off and keep there 6.5.

 

[Booolitz]

Imagine this technology in a 6.5 Grendel.

If this technology works, my guess is in three years you can pretty much count on every cartridge out there at plus 300 fps from where we are today.

 

[Macintosh]

This is probably the best advance in ballistics that I can remember in a long time and most of the posts here are bitching on the negative.

Yep, and Im one of them. I love it too, and I’ll clearly benefit from it down the road if any bugs get worked out. This issue I and others are poking at is where its applied in this case, and what functional benefit I get out of that—I dont see any. Others might. ultimately this tech is really interesting and clearly could benefit everyone, and federal has no choice from an adoption perspective to introduce it in a mega-popular cartridge. But the actual real-world benefit is only where an existing cartridge is INSUFFICIENT. This forum has spent many years proving that the existing 6.5cm is plenty sufficient for larger game and at longer range than the vast majority of hunters have any business shooting. So its no surprise that folks who have figured out a 6.5cm is already sufficient arent WOWED by an unproven new tech to “upsize” it.
You have to be a “more is always better” guy, or it has to be applied to a cartridge that is widely considered insufficient, for this to really be exciting. Which is precisely why I said I would be more excited if it was offered in a 6.5grendel. Or a 7.62x39. Or a 6 or 6.5x45 from a 223rem case. Or a… You get the picture. A .308 would be another yawner for me, because for my uses its already plenty sufficient. This cartridge/tech may also be more interesting for folks who shoot copper.

Going from “sufficient” to “more sufficient” is cool, and at that point the tech is “promising” because the actual benefit for most people is theoretical at best. Taking “insufficient” and making it “sufficient” is where it starts getting exciting.

 

[Bamf_Pa]

This is probably the best advance in ballistics that I can remember in a long time and most of the posts here are bitching on the negative.

I logged back into the forum just read the negative comments before folks have even held it. It’s a rockslide SOP. I love it, new ammo that is pushing the envelope will cause competition to pick up there game and we benefit as consumers

 

[BAKPAKR]

I do fear it will push people to expand their max game shooting range farther than a standard short action should be trusted

???

 

[ckt3]

I don’t think you’re wrong, but the message I replied to said “If it’s the same volume of powder…” and in that case there’s no free lunch.

Ah I missed that. In that case I agree with you

This is probably the best advance in ballistics that I can remember in a long time and most of the posts here are bitching on the negative.

The other, longer thread on this release seems to be quite positive. Surprisingly so even. But I agree. I don’t see what there is to complain about here. Pretty impressive engineering