Why is everyone in love with the 6.5 creedmoor?

[Teaman1]

Outside of paper punching and people new to shooting, I just don’t understand the love for this cartridge. Do people not actually look into the numbers before they decide on a new rifle? Had a buddy buy one so he could get more range and “knockdown power” over his 243. Went on to tell me he doesn’t care for 270’s and he didn’t want a 30-06 because they’re too slow.
Just wanted to shake him til he passed out haha

 

[slowelk]

What’s not to like? Low recoil, deep penetrating, highly efficient round.

What numbers are you referring to?

 

[khuber84]

I just purchased a new superlite Tikka 6.5 cm! I love it........will love it even more after I chop the barrel and ream chamber to 6.5 prc lol

 

[Teaman1]

What’s not to like? Low recoil, deep penetrating, highly efficient round.

What numbers are you referring to?

I’m referring to muzzle velocity and bullet drop. This person will never shoot past 400 yards or so and won’t make adjustment on his scope, just use holdover. So for him, BC doesn’t really come into play.
Choosing the 6.5 creedmoor and then calling the 30-06 slow is ridiculous. I want to say again, not discussing 500+ yard shots

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

I’ve shot .260 for somewhere around 20 years now. Sweet spot on the ballistics chart, low recoil, excellent energy, hits hard and knocks animals dead.

 

[brsnow]

It is an easy to shoot, accurate do it all in the lower 48 with incredible arrays of factory ammo options.

 

[Teaman1]

I’ve shot .260 for somewhere around 20 years now. Sweet spot on the ballistics chart, low recoil, excellent energy, hits hard and knocks animals dead.

260 rem and 270 were my suggestions. He brought up elk hunting and said he’d probably buy a 7mm mag for that. I told him his new creedmoor would kill an elk and we started talking about the 30-06 and he said that’s too slow. The creedmoor is slow as hell

 

[TREE ‘EM]

Low cost, high-quality ammo coupled with cheap out-of-the-box accurate rifles give it quite a bit of pull.

I bond 56.5 CM’s now. The first one I bought is a cheap ugly Ruger American Predator which set me back a whopping 360 bucks. First trip to the range with it before tweaking anything it was shooting under MOA with the three different boxes of factory ammo I bought with the rifle.
I tuned the trigger and epoxied a aluminum rod into the forend.
Second trip to the range and it puts 120 grain A-max and GMX factory ammo into quarter MOA groups all day long. Not only can I smack the 4 inch gong at 600 yards with every shot but I can actually watch the hits through my scope since the rifle doesn’t recoil enough to disturb and disrupt my vision through the scope.

Several dozen animals in they all seem to die just as dead as animals that I’ve shot with my 270s 308s and 30/06s.

 

[MidGAHunter]

Outside of paper punching and people new to shooting, I just don’t understand the love for this cartridge. Do people not actually look into the numbers before they decide on a new rifle? Had a buddy buy one so he could get more range and “knockdown power” over his 243. Went on to tell me he doesn’t care for 270’s and he didn’t want a 30-06 because they’re too slow.
Just wanted to shake him til he passed out haha

So don't buy one. It's that simple. Nothing wrong with the 270 or '06 either but the 6.5 manbun (I own 2 and haven't had enough hair to make a manbun in over 10 years) is a good round too.

 

[DangerRanger]

Because they work.

I’ve got one

Why do people give a shit?

 

[Mike Islander]

Much lower recoil and kills the same game as 30.06. That isn't even considering excellent BC, which is important for short range too if you have any wind.

 

[OXN939]

Here for the dumpster fire

 

[Teaman1]

I just don’t see the advantage over a 243 and then use flatter shooting and more knockdown power (for whitetail) as the reason for a creedmoor. Not saying they can’t kill, just bugs me in this specific situation

 

[Mike Islander]

I just don’t see the advantage over a 243 and then use flatter shooting and more knockdown power (for whitetail) as the reason for a creedmoor. Not saying they can’t kill, just bugs me in this specific situation

You just bug me in this specific situation.

 

[azpredator]

I’ll tell you my reason. I’m 90% archery and only wanted a rifle to deer hunt in AZ with my son who didn’t like to bow hunt. I had a tikka stainless 25-06 that shot 3” groups at 200 yards and always had one that would be 5” out. I didn’t even try at 500. I took it to a great gunsmith in AZ and spoke to him about what I wanted. A gun that can shoot factory loads around 1moa and kill a deer out to 500yards. He said with my action and How good factory ammo is nowadays a 6.5 Creedmoor would be a good choice. A couple thousand dollars later and I have a rifle that is 1/2” moa all day long with factory ammo. Ammo for my son’s 300 is over $50 / box while mine is less than half that. I bought 400 rounds on sale for less than $300. We both hit steel easily at 850 yards (max distance where I lived). To each their own...buy whatever suits you.

 

[Felix40]

It blows my mind too. It’s almost identical to the basic old 7mm-08 for hunting distances.

 

[Teaman1]

I also like red

 

[bascott1]

The answer to this is simple. Don’t buy one. Nobody is forcing you to jump on the so called bandwagon and drop $4,000 on a custom 6.5. Let your buddy thing what he wants to think. That’s his right. I like mine cause my wife who is new to shooting can punch steel out to 400 yards with slight recoil, it can handle deer sized game in the south and elk sized game as well and she can get use to the same rifle. I’m not knocking the 06 or the 243 cause I have both and will never get rid of them. The 243 was my first rifle long before the 6.5 was ever around. And I still use it to this day. 06 is my favorite round ever period. But guess what I like shooting my 6.5 better, but that doesn’t mean I think it’s a better cartridge by any means. It’s 2020 and everything is about diversity, and I took that to heart in my rifle collection as well.

 

[Reburn]

yippee lets have another caliber debate. Much less another creedmor sucks thread. Its fun to argure on the internet. 6.5mm boolits suck. 7mm boolits are so old. 30-06 is like what my grandpa shot at nazis? Quarter bore is where its at. Thats the new hotness. Dont know if you know this but roy weatherby just came out with this hot new round the 257. Prove me wrong I wont listen anyways.

Where is the darn sarcasm flag and eye roll emoji.

 

[EastMT]

I also like red

I bought one this year finally. I don’t see any advantage over a 308 really. Sure BC that, drift this. Whatever, if I can click 4 clicks I can click 6.

Or a 7mm-08. If they’d have called it a 7mm Thunder Clapping Deer Smackasaurous Rex there probably wouldn’t even be a Creedmoor.