The Creedmoor’s hype produced a different outcome for me. I probably would have never been interested in a 6.5-anything had it not been for all of the fuss about the Creedmoor. However, I found a Tikka T3x stainless Hunter in a 260 Rem. and I joined 6.5 club by adopting this stepchild cartridge. At the 300 and 400 meter backstops, I have put up some of the very best groups in my life with this little guy. My 260 is pleasant to shoot, easy to reload for, damn accurate, has legs, and it is just an all around fun cartridge for me. I am delighted that the Creedmoor brought me to the 6.5 party, but I just ended up with a different partner. CP.
Exactly. I have several calibers, but started the 6.5 thing with my .260s. I went that way, because I already had lots of .308 brass. I now have two of them and have a Creed and soon to have another. My other rifles have been doing lots of safe time, since going the 6.5 route. I like the Creed for longer bullets, due to magazine length and the 130-class bullets in my .260s.
I think that the Creed has taken over as the "first" rifle for young people and women, because it has a mild recoil that needs no reduction, plus hits plenty hard for any first-time hunter. It just fills the gap a bit better than a .243, in my opinion, but there was no fly on the .243 that I had either!
