While I can sympathize with the OP's original complaint about salesmen and some owners hype about the caliber I must say that of all the gee whiz calibers that have come along the 6.5 Creedmoor enjoys pretty good support from just about everyone making ammo. I see around thirty loadings without looking very hard. It is a decent cartridge. Not the top of the heap but it does what it was designed to do and does it well enough to have quite a good following which fans the flames of hate for quite a few.