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Aside from the most obvious 260 Remington, what cartridges has the 6.5 Creed hurt most? I am thinking the 7mm-08 is a likely candidate.

Wouldn’t trade my 7/08 for a dozen Creeds.

Local shop that sells a ton of guns had like 2 243s in stock and i asked why so few. Guy said no one wants one. They buy a 223 and if they want a deer rifle they ask for the creedmoor.

25-06 and 7mm-08.

Others could speak to this with much more insight than me, but the 6.5 Creedmoor really put the hurt on the .308 Winchester in the steel clanging community.

243

In order:

.243 Win
.25-‘06 Rem
.260 Rem
7mm-08 Rem
.270 Win
.308 Win

Truth be known, the .243 is getting pounded by both Creeds, 6 and 6.5.

The .25-‘06 and .260 don’t sell many units anyway, so it doesn’t take much Creed competition to tske a sizable percentage of sales.

The 7mm-08 is the most logical competitor, and the 6.5 Creedmoor just does quite a bit better in factory rifles and ammo.

Folks are finally figuring out you don’t need a .270 to kill deer.

The .308 is getting hurt in both the target market and especially for “long range” hunting where it went from darling to being hardly even talked about in that space.

There are others, like the 6mm Rem, .257 Roberts, 6.5x55, 7x57 and .280 Rem/.280 AI, but those sell so few new rifles as it is (and was before the Creedmoor) that a percentage of nothing amounts to nothing so their old fans will keep these cartridges about where they already were.

Sales for a lot of cartridges have been impacted by the CM popularity, from .30-06 down. Most affected? I would guess .243, 7mm-08 and .308 in terms of total number sold. If talking percentages, I wouldn't even hazard a guess.

I think the 6.5 and .300 PRC will affect a lot of others.

.243 What? 😬

Noticed the Tikka T3X hunter on clearance in 270, 06', 243 with the 308 being the cheapest.

Only one cartridge more Swede than the Creed 😎


Trystan

Seriously. I think a well-practiced and experienced hunter could take all non-dangerous game all over the world with suitable rifles chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor and .300 PRC.

Could be the best combo ever.

I’d say 308, especially for target shooting. I think the CM really benefited from its time of release, because bullet technology was improving giving the CM viability in the big-game hunting world. It seems to be the cartridge that has proven to people that you don’t need a 30-06 to kill a deer or a 338WM to kill an elk. I’m sure that plenty of people had figured that out well before the creedmoor, but not too long ago I heard people regularly spouting off that a 7-08 and 270 were on the light side for deer, whereas now nobody thinks twice if you shoot an elk with a 6.5.

Disagree respectfully. 308 is more popular than ever due to its military pedigree and the subsequent tacti-[bleep] attraction.

7-08 is pretty flat as it’s a hunting round...

I’d say the 300WM and 338 Lapua honestly. It isn’t that these aren’t good hunting rounds because they are but in my kneck of the woods people were buying and using them for long range paper punching...now they have the cm

I digress...total numbers

223/556

That would’ve been my guess. That and the 30-06

My 6.5 Creedmoor is my 243. 7mm-08 and 308 are still good........

350 legend....... FO’ SHO’

Of the popular ones, the 7-08 and the .243.

"Them thur Creed-moors recoil jes like a 243."

Yeah, right.

I'm with the guys listing .308 Win....it's likely affected the sale of rifles in every other short action round, but I think it put the biggest kink in .308's with the shooting crowd.