If I weren't a handloader, I'd probably never have gotten a 6.5X55. If I hadn't ever gotten a 6.5X55 I might well have gotten a .260 Remington at some point. If I hadn't gotten either, I might well have gotten a 6.5 Creedmore (I may anyway, sometime, or a 6.5 PRC.) As it is, I am solid curmudgeon. Hell, when the .260 Remington came out I scoffed..."What can it do my 6.5X55 can't do with a good load?" If I'd gone the .260 route, I'd be asking what the Creed can do the .260 can't do.
Actually, for the vast majority of hunters, none offer any particular advantages, we might even throw the .264 WM in that group. The average hunter doesn't often shoot deer-sized game much beyond 300 yards if that. I've killed them out to 400 with my 6.5X55 easily enough.
But it's all good fun.
