I have been shooting and hunting with a 6.5 x 55 since 1989 when I bought my first one. Now I have a Sako Hunter so chambered for over 20 years now, never found it lacking in accuracy or the ability to put game on the ground! The gun market is a very fickle place, some cartridges succeed and others fail. In the end, a 270 or 30-06 is going to work just fine on the game we shoot these days, but there is no fun in that! As I get older and I am getting up there age wise, It has dawned on me that most don't care one way or another on such things. We do because we are an odd bunch, after all, I have never seen a gun or a cartridge yet that I didn't like. Of course, if I had any sense at all, I would have just kept hunting with the 30-30 I bought in 1971 and saved a ton of money over the years. It's a sickness I tell you a sickness.
