All I have to say is everybody's making big money off these Crudmoors and 6.5s when 90% of us will never realize the benefits of a 6.5 if there are any because we never shoot over 300 yards and most don't shoot over 100.
Yeah, ok HIGH BC bullets. But this has absolutely nothing to do with 6.5 and everything to do with marketing and bullet and barrel making, there's nothing magical about the number 6.5. The powers that be saw that the old military 6.5s had tight twist barrels that would stabilize long Spitzer bullets and made bullets accordingly, then barrel makers followed suit for sporting rifles. But now you can get high BC bullets in about any chambering. Even the old .270 has people making tighter twist barrels and bullet makers that make 165-170 grain bullets. 7mms have been here for awhile. I think the attraction to the 6.5s is more due to lighter recoil and just having something different.
As far as the Ruger's accuracy goes, I've had two Ruger 77s, both the older version tang safety style. They both shot better than I could shoot them. The first one was a .308 Varminter that I had bedded and would shoot .6"-.7" 5 shot groups with one pet load of a 168 grain SMK bullet over I think 44 or 45 grains of IMR 4350. It's been awhile.
The other was a .30-06 sporter barrel that would shoot 1 inch 3 shot groups. That was unbedded. I had that rifle re-barreled to 9.3x62 and it shoots even better, I'm sure because of the Shilen Match barrel. That's what my Gun Smith uses. Rugers can be just as accurate as any other factory rifle.
Last edited by Filaman; 01/27/20.
