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Vortex is the new Tasco, but with tacticool names like Strike Eagle.

PM me your mailing address. It's yours for free since it's the season of giving and I have no use for it.

I'd recommend not taking the back straps out of the cyclist.

There are a couple of reasons that I haven't jumped on the bandwagon. I already have a .243, a .270 and 2 .308's. What would be the point? I really don't see what it does different than the 6.5 Swede or the .260 Remington, both of which will push the same weight bullets faster. Most of the advantages that I hear from one of my coworkers about it is how it shoots better than a .308 at 1000yds, even though he would prefer to "hunt" deer from his recliner by shooting out of his window with a shot no longer than 40 yds. If people have to talk themselves into buying one that's fine, but I didn't really need to talk myself out of one.

All too well my friend, all too well.

Bitch please. I look damn good in my spendex.

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Why the socks?

+1

You have to wear socks with flippy floppy's. Everybody knows that

-Jake

That's curious. Guess I've been doing it wrong since the '50s. Will try to do better.

In the next life.

Just think, everyone reading/posting/replying to this thread COULD be out shooting.....

Will do that this weekend.

This is true, but oh so hard to do. Its a fine cartridge but all of the BS thats spewed about it make it hard for me to love it. I doubt that I ever own one.

I've owned a Ruger 77 stainless All Weather in 6.5CM since just after they came out maybe 10+ year ago and well before the media and internet hype went bonkers over the cartridge. With mine I pull the trigger, the rifle goes bang, and what I'm aiming at usually gets hit. Beyond that, any additional hype about what the cartridge is capable of is just that. Nothing more.

Its simply a new cartridge in reality. Just like any other cartridge was at one time. The CM has been pushed by an almost cult-like internet following. Most of whom have no clue other than what they have read in their mommy's basement while they order matching hoodies and running shoes.

Its simply a new cartridge in reality.

I don't believe anyone really hates the cartridge, but I know I hate all the hype perpetuated by the idjits.

Negative; You didn't strike a nerd or a nerve for that matter. I don't get the hype of hate directed at the round. It's just another round in the golf bag of rounds.

Careful! Turn this into a golf thread and things could get ugly!

I'm amazed at all this hype about the Credmoor as a hunting round.

It was developed specifically for NRA High Power matches in the match rifle category. In that game--shot at 200, 300, and 600 yards, a single shot out more than 1/4 inch from another can cost the national championship. The 5.56mm usually won the rapid fire stages at 200 and 300 yards because of low recoil (compared with, sy, a .308). If your position is in the slightest out, shots will string out. At 600 yards, the 5.56mm is a little weak at bucking wind. Hence the 6.5 Creedmoor. Better at 600 for wind and lower recoil in the rapid fire stages than a .308.

As for hunting, I doubt that it is any better--or worse--than a .270, .280, or 30-06 for 99.9% of the shots taken by 99.9% of hunters except for larger game. I don't gush over a 1/4 inch action length difference, the slight trajectory disadvantage of the Creedmoor, or its slight and almost immeasurable windage advantage.

As a hunting round, it just doesn't seem to be a worthwhile improvement over rounds 100 years older.

Don't get me started on that visor wearing gaggle of douchebags.

I just pray they don't latch onto the 6.5 PRC. If I have to sell my new Christensen Arms Mesa, I am going to be pissed.