Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Will the 6.5 Creedmoor survive?

Big Green goofed Big Time. Like it’s been said the 260 would make a great Harvard Business Review!

The answer to this topic lies in a cartridge designed 126 years ago, that thrives today.....

Marketing is great for the initial rollout.

Marketing has nothing to do with it’s continued popularity. If it was marginal or underperformed with the serious shooting public, specifically gun writers, it would have been panned and lost popularity to another 6.5 the way the .264 did to the 7RM.

New cartridges aren’t propped up, especially when the internet is looking for a reason to diminish i.

So true.

I think what many fail to realize is that none of these companies are big enough to have the capital necessary for “marketing” to have any type of an impact. These small companies are extremely lucky if their marketing budgets can deliver even 10 seconds of quality time with their message in front of consumers.

Hornady sure ain’t Ford or GM.

I just bought another, I’m doing my share.

the vote is in. Just got back from Sportsmans Warehouse.

they had boxes of Remington 140 gr pspcl 260 Rem for $35.99

they had boxes of Remington 140 gr pspcl 6.5 CM for $22.99

There were at least 10 other brands weights types of 6.5 CM

Only other 260 Rem I saw was Remington with 120g barnes.

Even Remington is killing the 260.

Sycamore

Cabelas had the Remington 140 gr Coreloct ammo on sale for $17 for the 6.5 CM

It’s so good you can just throw it, you don’t need no stinking gun!!!

I just wanted to chime in here to say how worried I am that the 6.5 CM won't survive. I mean, if it actually had anything going for it like good ballistics, mild recoil, or accuracy, that would be one thing, but as it stands now, it's obviously just a passing fad. I can't sleep a wink!

Game all over the world trembles when we say Creedmoor.

Just wait for the 6.8 Creedmoor. You boys will have pools of slobber on the gunshop floor deep enough you’ll need your gum boots while you wait in line to trade in your old obsolete 6.5s.

Just imagine, 175 gr 6.8mm bullets with BCs of .700. Racks will be full of used 6.5 Creeds...

you mean it'll kill deers and pigs more deader?

You take a Creedmoor out of the safe, deer pigs begin to fall over.

The 6.8CM will be even more so. Unaffected by wind, inherently the most accurate cartridge conceivable, allowing for ethical 1000 yard shots on big game, some of which will fall dead before the bullet leaves the barrel from the powerful shock effects of pure terror. Be ready for the Rapture.

The 6.5 will Die a slow death.....I carried mine all Deer Season and did not see a shooter buck.....They must have found out !!!!! That I was packing a new Kimber in 6.5 and went Nocturnal ....When I used to carry a 270 they would practically pose for the shot....


Any one got a good deal on a 270 Gay ?

I love me some Remington, but they showed up in 2017 like....

Ooof, that is hard luck you betcha. I only shoot but one deer off the farm every year with the Creedmoor and they still are catching on. Get's harder all the time, I'll tell ya. So I had my buddy shoot one with the old Mosberg with the slugs dontcha know. Well be damned if the next day a fine eating doe weren't to step out from across the field and it was a call to the wife to say, get the bacon and onions we got vennie for the freezer.

It's not wrong to change rifles to trick em everysooften...but I'd not bring up that 270 around God fearing folks or other proper circles. Not everyone has spent time 'experimenting' in college like you did.

HAHAHA! So true.

I just don't see anything outstanding about the creedmoor. 1/8 twist and alot of media attention. Semd'em downrange with any other 6.5 and it equals or surpasses it. In the 70's I remember reading that the .284 was the optimum bullet diameter and now it is the .264, Ok , I will split the difference .284+.264 = .548 ÷ 2= .274...close enough to .277 for me. Merry Christmas.

Oh well.