Hornady did an awesome job of marketing, including offering load data that would shoot in most any decent barrel. Remington, on the other hand, did not.
Ding ding ding.
Still love my 260, dont think I would trade it for a Creed.
Just buy a Creed. Can you ever have enough accurate rifles?
I was a HP rifle competitor from about 89 to 03, after I made distinguished rifle ...
You sound like a shooter I knew from the old days. Mike L? Only guy I ever heard of with worse eyes than me!
I built a 260 hunter in the days before the Creedmoor. Thought that Dennis' idea was a niche product that wouldn't go anywhere. ...after all there was already the 260 that was a legitimized 6.5-08 and the new 6.5x47 which came with Lapua brass. A couple of years ago I shopped BassPro for ammo. Couldn't find a single box of 260 to buy. But there was tons of 6.5 Creedmoor to be had. Boy did I get that one wrong!
Yep, you pegged me. Not only can I not see but the arthritis is whooping on me. Did you shoot HP in NC? Wish I was still able to compete.
25 separate types of 6.5 Creedmoor factory ammo on the shelves, zero (0) boxes of .260 Remington. They even had a good assortment of 6mm Creedmoor factory loads.
The last time I looked about a year ago there were 0 boxes of 260 Remington ammo there, so at least it's holding its own and not slipping...
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
25 separate types of 6.5 Creedmoor factory ammo on the shelves, zero (0) boxes of .260 Remington. They even had a good assortment of 6mm Creedmoor factory loads.
The last time I looked about a year ago there were 0 boxes of 260 Remington ammo there, so at least it's holding its own and not slipping...
Here's the sickest irony...the Creedmoor was conceptualized as a highpower round by DeMille and Emary and purpose built by Hornady to win. But to my knowledge, the Creedmoor has not won a single National Championship in High Power. The 260 on the other hand has won the National Championship at least 4 times by my count in at least 3 shooters hands and holds the National Record Score shot by Sherri Gallagher.
When DeMille won the Mumma (National Championship) in 2005 he was shooting a 6XC...but to be fair, the 6.5 Creedmoor wasn't introduced until 2007.
25 separate types of 6.5 Creedmoor factory ammo on the shelves, zero (0) boxes of .260 Remington. They even had a good assortment of 6mm Creedmoor factory loads.
The last time I looked about a year ago there were 0 boxes of 260 Remington ammo there, so at least it's holding its own and not slipping...
Where I get my ammo, there isn't even a single box of 6.5 Creedmoor ammunition. Don't tell me it is that plentiful...
25 separate types of 6.5 Creedmoor factory ammo on the shelves, zero (0) boxes of .260 Remington. They even had a good assortment of 6mm Creedmoor factory loads.
The last time I looked about a year ago there were 0 boxes of 260 Remington ammo there, so at least it's holding its own and not slipping...
Where I get my ammo, there isn't even a single box of 6.5 Creedmoor ammunition. Don't tell me it is that plentiful...
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"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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We're all opinionated enough around here and don't need or want any other opinions.
Especially from all those cheeseball fora
Geno
PS, demigodllc.com???? WTF? demigod? isn't that like blasphemous or something.
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Where I get my ammo, there isn't even a single box of 6.5 Creedmoor ammunition. Don't tell me it is that plentiful...
I guess you’re still shopping Gibson’s, because Murdoch’s, Bob Ward’s, and Sportsman’s Warehouse all have multiple (and in some cases over a dozen) skews of 6.5 Creedmoor ammo.
In fact, this past June I counted ammo skews at the Bozeman Murdoch’s on 7th...
30 skews of 308 Win 22 skews of 6.5 CM 19 skews of 270 Win 13 skews of 243 Win 8 skews of 7-08
(For those not from here, Gibson’s closed their doors almost 15 years ago).
“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Where I get my ammo, there isn't even a single box of 6.5 Creedmoor ammunition. Don't tell me it is that plentiful...
I guess you’re still shopping Gibson’s, because Murdoch’s, Bob Ward’s, and Sportsman’s Warehouse all have multiple, and in some cases over a dozen, skews of 6.5 Creedmoor ammo.
In fact, this past June I counted ammo skews at the Bozeman Murdoch’s on 7th...
30 skews of 308 Win 22 skews of 6.5 CM 19 skews of 270 Win 13 skews of 243 Win 8 skews of 7-08
(For those not from here, Gibson’s closed their doors almost 15 years ago).
Help me out Brad . . . what is a "scew?"
"All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee
And the fact remains, there are dozens upon dozens of skews (SKU’s) of 6.5 Creedmoor ammo, available in multiple stores (including Walmart), in Bozeman, MT.
“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I bought a cheap Savage Creedmoor on sale ($210 after rebates). The 3rd group out of it measured .436 and all I was trying to do was check for pressure. While I do possess nerves of steel and and have been called the human bench rest, I have to give some credit to the cartridge.
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Broncos are officially the worst team in the nation this year.
The people that don't like the Creedmoor probably won't ever like it. It's become fashionable to bash it on a lot of forums. Shrapnel's pic looks like his well stocked reloading room and since he started a thread bashing the Creedmoor I'm guessing he still doesn't like it. To each his own.
I have never understood the need to bash someone else's choice. If somebody wants a .260, so be it. If somebody else wants a 6.5 CM, so be it. The two cartridges were not meant to compete, even though the 6.5 finally found its way to the game fields.
It's not that the 6.5 Creedmoor is anything more or less than the 260 Remington (or any other 6.5/264 cartridge) it's all the hyper strewn poppycock bull splatter that came with it.
"Buy the Binford 6100 in 6.5 Creedmoor today and be shooting like Chris Kyle tomorrow!!"
I don't think so Tim
Any cartridge can be made to shoot accurately if the rifle and shooter are up to the task.
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