Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Why/How does the Creedmoor out run the 260 & 6.5x55?

Now, you would have to bring that up...



DF

JG - thanks for the endorsement....always wanted to hold an office😄

Brad - what hype it’s all real world advantages😊.

Hey guys never said the round isn’t a good one....it is - I’m just saying it can’t do anything for ME that rifles I already own can’t do - the hype is just that though and the vast majority of people don’t even come close to understanding the advantages of the cartridge. Of course the members of this forum do not fit in the vast majority of people and do and can extract the advantages that this cartridge offers and more power to them - I’m just not one of them so I’ll keep using my 6.5X55 and 260s and keep getting the jobs done - that’s just me.

Sorry if I upset anyone - I wasn’t trying to make fun of their choice in cartridges....guess I just don’t understand all the fuss.

PennDog
President of the 6.5 Creedmoors Whiners Club (sorry WAM if you want to be President I’ll be VP)

So you know the vast majority of owners?

I guess I don't understand why your type continues to give a fugg about something you say you don't give a fugg about. It's not about the cartridge, it's you gals that go to Kobe Bryant's room at 2am and leave surprised when you have a size 7 1/2 poop chute.


It's the best cartridge I've seen come from the factory in my lifetime. That doesn't translate into sell everything you have and buy one or 10.



PS: Do you still have an intact prostate?

Geez Steelhead what did I insult your girlfriend or what - not enough coffee this AM?

Why so personal in your attacks? - I was expressing an opinion....really sorry that it differed from yours (and it actually didn’t - it is a good cartridge never said it wasn’t - just said I have no use for it with the rifles and cartridges that I have now and that I get a kick out of people (not on this forum drinking the koolaid) hardly makes me right or wrong...it’s called an opinion).

Man chill BIG internet guy😄

PennDog

This reminds me of my brother, who says his truck is better than my truck, mainly because it's his truck...

DF

My Truck is better than your brother's truck. Which makes it better than your truck.

Wait, this thread was about the Creedmoor right? I think it sucks because I've never owned or shot one yet, so, nobody buy one, cuz I says so!

If you had a Creed, it would be better than mine...

DF

Well....... THIS 70 FTWT 6.5X55 is BETTER than Y'all CreedS.

My Swede's better than yo Swede...

DF

R O F ! !

Well then........OUR Swedes are better than THEIR Creeds.

That is a beauty!.....hope I was allowed to say that??!!

PennDog

YES, you have my permission.

BUT I’m not a member of the C club.


Thanks anyway.

For sure.

But I gotta Creed, too.

Gets complicated.

DF

You are Conflicted.......

Simplify life........Reduce Redundancy !!


grin

Oh yes you are. Just not the Creedmoor Club

I'll take the Creed everyday over the Swede. Y'all can keep those x55's and the x57's too while we're at it. When I want a short action I want a short action.

Just watched a 140 berger vld(these are limited production and apparently never to be made again) launched at 2,750 fps just flatten a big old black bear at over 400 yards. Kind of high and tight behind the shoulder and instant death. I don't care if swede, creed, 260, lapua, or 06, I kind of dig on the 6.5 stuff these days.

You can't be a Loony and not be somewhat conflicted...

That "NEED" word keeps coming up, I'm conflicted over the definition...

Now, what do you mean by "redundancy"? Another conflicted definition...

DF

Indeed. For a lot of hunters, the availability of a wide range of factory Creedmoor ammo is attractive, compared with the 260 Rem - not to mention the much wider availability of factory rifles. Aside from little "modern" 6.5x55 ammo availability, it requires, at a minimum, an oddball "medium" action.

The Creedmoor is a home run, and looks to be one of the major military rounds going forward:
https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htweap/articles/20180601.aspx

Jerry,

My 6.5x55 beats your 6.5x55: FN Mauser commercial action, Gentry 3-position safety, Lilja 1-8 twist barrel, custom New Zealand walnut stock.

I also once owned a M70 like yours. Nice rifle, but it didn't shoot as accurately as a Ruger 77 Hawkeye, which also had a decent walnut stock. Neither shot nearly as well as my .260 Remington TIkka T3 Super Lite, one of the special run from Whittaker Guns with a 1-8 twist. And none of them shoot as well as my present Ruger American Predator in 6.5 Creedmoor. It's first 5-shot group at 100 yards measured .33 inch. I might just restock it in really nice walnut just to piss off 6.5 Creedmoor Antis. Then again, maybe not.