Originally Posted by mathman
Originally Posted by Filaman
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, a cartridge sitting at the intersection of plenty of juice for the deer hunting most people do, modest recoil, engineered for precision and widely available, reasonably priced ammunition wouldn't have any benefits or appeal to the 300 yard, and mostly under 100 yard hunter.


Certainly not!

I have all the hunting rifles an old fat man would ever need, and a couple of spares, but if the earth opened up and swallowed all my stuff, the you-know-what would be pretty high on the list of candidates to replace them, right under its 6mm little brother, which is really all I need here and seems to be catching on, though not enough to panic the .243 crowd.

What fresh Hell is this?