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......................Well then!..............Everyone should empty their safes, sell all of their rifles and just buy a 6.5 Creed to use as a ONE RIFLE do all cartridge..................................This round walks on water!!

I have three, I could use another!

Got a Creed, also a .270, just don't talk about that one much...

Even the red headed step child can be dangerous...

Deer and hogs cannot tell the difference, only here on the Fire...

DF

30-06 covers it all.

257 Creed Roberts

I have a 6.5 Creedmoor. I have never considered the 22 centerfires to be adequate deer cartridges, yes, they'll most certainly kill a deer....on the other hand, so will a 22 rimfire. It has always been my belief that the 243 is the minimum deer cartridge, with the 270 being the perfect one. The 6.5 is a compromise, it has about as much killing power as a 270, with the recoil of the 243, and in a short action, which I prefer.

Having said that, no cartridge is magic, as the performance of ANY cartridge falls directly upon the man behind the gun. There are a host of cartridges that will work perfectly for deer sized game, and I've used a bunch of them. Just as there are those who are stupid enough to believe that the 6.5 Creedmoor has some kind of magical properties that make it far better than anything else, there are those who are stupid enough to pretend it doesn't exist. It's here to stay, it's a good cartridge, just as there are a host of other good ones as well.

JamesJr, It's good you know your limitations. Rio7

What is this "moor" chitt?

I got more, wanna fight about it?

Get a 270 Weatherby

And all this time I thought that it was just another popular medium case capacity cartridge.

Bud has one, Shilen barrel on old Ruger tanger 7RM. I’m going to load 140 Fed Trophy and Accubonds as 130’s were a bit expansive at those speeds. That round is a hammer. With 130’s it’ll just about match the 26 Nosler with140’s. Deer and hogs can’t tell 130’s from 140’s.

DF

just buy a 6.5x55

the original 6.5mm.......

will be here long after the CM dies off.......

https://www.ballisticstudies.com/Knowledgebase/6.5x55.html

Aren't there 6.5mm military cartridges older than the 6.5x55?

If so, wouldn't the earliest of them be the original 6.5mm.......?

Good thing they told you where the battery was!

not sure...the Swede I think is the most popular

First 2 groups from the Bergara Woodsman in 6.5 Creedmoor last weekend testing OAL. Should probably get rid of it and buy a 260 Rem.

Just read that the Swede is the oldest 6.5 round currently in use.

So, don't know which was the first.

DF

sphinctriloquist ?

Gotta remember that one.

You're killin' me, dude.

LMAO.

It has the same "magic" that all 6.5 rounds do: Long for caliber projectiles. That gives a 6.5 more push through quarry and makes it appear to hit above it's class, because it does. I have two 6.5x55's and a 6.5x284. All are tack drivers with most any load I work up. The only Creedmore I may make some room for in my safe would be an AR10 variety.

I'd agree that the 6.5x55 made the transition from military to sporting cartridge more successfully than any of the others in the group of six 6.5mm bore military cartridges that were introduced between 1891 and 1904.

6.5x50 Japanese 1897
6.5x52 Italian 1891
6.5x53R Dutch & Romanian 1893
6.5x54 Greek 1903
6.5x55 Norwegian & Swedish 1894
6.5x58 Portuguese 1904

Old guys like me can remember when you could mail order firearms and ammo from outfits like Klein's. Lots of surplus military firearms, some good buys and some not so good.