Sometime back, I put in for a new 6.5 caliber barrel in a fluted stainless offering. I already had a wore out 30-06 sporter type in a model 70 Winchester. So the 6.5 cal was a no brainer since I wanted a lightweight rifle in a caliber that offered more big game ability than my 25-06 that had been taking deer and speed goats for the last dozen years of so.
I don't do much long range work with this rifle, it was really built to take up the slack of the down the road 1/4 bore I used to carry. It shoots .650 MOA at 100 yards (Sierra bullets) and others have shot this rifle and had groups under 3 inches at 300 yards. It makes for one heck of a mule dear gun and will certainly take a bull elk in a pinch with the proper weight bullet. I still have a bunch of those Hornady 160 grain pills from the 70's.
