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Let’s see how many wildcats based on the Creadmore case design reach the state of being commercially successful cartridges.
The gold standard is the 30-06 case which produced the 25-06, 270 Win, 280 Rem, 338-06, and 35 Whelen, not to mention several other wildcats.
When the creadewhatever case produces 5 other commercial cartridges, then its designers can legitimately boast.
Until then, pipe down.
I wonder if the creed case could even push a .358 rifle bullet out the barrel to a distance of 100 yards, mich less 200 yards. Anybody want to trust a creed cartridge to stop a charging predacious grizzly? Well there are about a zillion of them already simply because the .308 is the parent case for the Creedmoor. you mean the 30 TC is the parent case. Whose parent case is?? Basically all .473 case head cartridges are off of the '06 if one wants to split hairs. If I recall correctly, the 8x57 was .473" before even the 06. https://gundigest.com/gear-ammo/ammunition/the-6-5-creedmoor-continues-to-hit-the-markjust one of many that says the 30TC is the parent cartridge for the 6.5CM. i would love a 9.3 CM for deer and black bear.
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A few comments:
The first cartridge to use the ".30-06" head/rim diameter was the Patrone 88, the cartridge introduced in the German Gewehr 88. It eventually morphed slightly into the 8x57, and the rim diameter was actually nominally 12mm, since Germany used the metric system. After that the Patrone 88 head-size was used in other Mauser rounds, including the 7.65x53 "Argentine" (1889) and 7x57 (1892), long before the U.S. Army brought out the .30-03 and .30-06. (Our army had a habit of copying other stuff in those days. As I've noted elsewhere, the cartridge we usually call .30-40 Krag is almost a carbon copy of the .303 British, which appeared several years before the .30-40.)
There have been other copies of various commercial rounds on the same head-size. The .30 Thompson/Center was far from a really original idea, since it's basically a slightly longer-necked version of 1920's .300 Savage, including the 30-degree shoulder angle.
Yes, Hornady claims the 6.5 Creedmoor is based on the .30 T/C necked down, but the 6.5 Creedmoor is also almost identical to the wildcat 6.5/.250 Savage RCBS Improved, which had a 28-degree shoulder angle.
And all of those mentioned have the 12mm rim diameter of the 136-year old Gewehr 88...
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Good thing I have a proper amount of ammo to hold me.
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Gave my oldest son my dads wood stock 25-06 Savage .
Grumpy old man with a gun.....Do not touch . Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. Don't bother my monument and I'll leave yours alone.
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As long as there's one rifleman shooting one 25-06 on one firing range it aint dead
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A few comments:
The first cartridge to use the ".30-06" head/rim diameter was the Patrone 88, the cartridge introduced in the German Gewehr 88. It eventually morphed slightly into the 8x57, and the rim diameter was actually nominally 12mm, since Germany used the metric system. After that the Patrone 88 head-size was used in other Mauser rounds, including the 7.65x53 "Argentine" (1889) and 7x57 (1892), long before the U.S. Army brought out the .30-03 and .30-06. (Our army had a habit of copying other stuff in those days. As I've noted elsewhere, the cartridge we usually call .30-40 Krag is almost a carbon copy of the .303 British, which appeared several years before the .30-40.)
There have been other copies of various commercial rounds on the same head-size. The .30 Thompson/Center was far from a really original idea, since it's basically a slightly longer-necked version of 1920's .300 Savage, including the 30-degree shoulder angle.
Yes, Hornady claims the 6.5 Creedmoor is based on the .30 T/C necked down, but the 6.5 Creedmoor is also almost identical to the wildcat 6.5/.250 Savage RCBS Improved, which had a 28-degree shoulder angle.
And all of those mentioned have the 12mm rim diameter of the 136-year old Gewehr 88... when i first my 6.5 CM back in '08 or '09, there was no brass to reload for. someone said the 308 Winchester, but it took a couple of steps to do. a 22/250 case necked up to 6.5 is a little short on the OAL, but i think i may as well try it. to my amazement, it worked even tho it was shorter (.2 or .02" i think). i still have the 6.5/250 cases left....somewhere. i sold the Creedmoor about 6 or 7 years ago, because it got boring. the 6.5 CM was and is a whitetail deer round. i used 120gr Hornady SST/Nosler BT and 140gr Hornady SST/Nosler BT with Superformance powder. the CM would go (for any bullet) 1/2 - 3/4" group at 100 yards (5 shots/bench). when the shooting gods smiled upon me, the CM would do 1/4" group. the longest shot i took with the 6.5 CM is something like 120+/- yards (i think) on a doe. i've never shot it over 300 yards, but it rang steel.
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I always thought it interesting the rapid evolution of cartridge design. The late fifties and sixties was all about large belted cartridges pushing relatively light to medium weight bullets as fast as possible. Now it’s all about efficiency and heavy for caliber bullets with fast twist rates. Yes that happened over sixty years but compare that to the time it takes for the most minuscule change in an animal to show as far as evolution is concerned. I doubt any evolutionary change has happened in game animals has happened since the 25-06 was first conceived that makes it any less effective.
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