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What's up with all the ridiculing and making fun of this cartridge and owners. I was considering purchasing one but I would have to keep it a secret so I wouldn't be laughed off the shooting range.

Let them laugh. Then prove them wrong. Have the last laugh.

Go get one! It will make feel better.

I would be more embarrassed that I GAS tgat some random on the net cared what I shot.

Can't imagine being so insecure.

It is just a 243 ganging up with a 308 trying to be better than a 257.

It's your basic homophobia at work. 😁

I would be more embarrassed not knowing how to spell.
Btw... I am not insecure at all. Was just wondering what was supposed to be so gay about shooting a 6.5 cm.

I’ve never seen a cartridge that I disliked. Some are more useful than others but I can’t see hating a cartridge or equating it with masculinity. Then again I’m not a Ford Vs. Chevy fanboy either.

The haters always claim that it’s in response to 6.5 CM fanboys but I never see them. At least not in anywhere near the numbers that I see CM haters. I think a lot of the detractors are emotionally connected to a 6.5 Swede or .308 Win both of which I like but it bothers some that a newer cartridge comes along and has some technical advantages. Probably the same people that dislike 7mm-08 because it’s an easy button to the 7x57mm.

My G/ma taught me two sayings....

She was born in Lithawania

'Those that laugh last...laugh the hardest'

And.....

The sun shines on every dogs azz some day.....

Hornady & others develop these new whizz bang cartridges

People buy 'em......Hornady makes $$$$$$$

My thoughts.....6.5CM has nothing over the 125 YO 6.5x55

Only a newer case design

I'm a 6.5x55 kinda guy

I have two, make just as much fun as everyone else. People gonna find something to make fun of, just happens to be the Creed and 270. Both are superb in my worthless opinion. Took this by Buda Tex

I joyfully own both..

Kevlar is on..

A 6.5CM doesn’t have a thing over a 6.5x55 in a hunting rifle for someone that reloads. As a precision rifle cartridge it definitely has some advantages from a faster factory standard barrel twist to being able to seat long heavy for caliber bullets out in the mag box of a short action rifle if going to a long action than that leaves a lot of other options on the table for chamberings, shoulder angle ect. I like the Swede for a hunting rifle but for someone looking for the easy button and plentiful rifles and factory ammo that isn’t downloaded to old guns a 6.5 CM makes a lot of sense there too.

The 6.5 CM is popular today for the same reasons that the Swede was popular. Plentiful guns and ammo and similar ballistics and heavy for caliber bullets.

I can shoot ducks off the lake with my Creed or 270 either one, drunk, with my eyes closed!!!

Funny you enter the Creedmoor Country, and Exit the 223.

I never noticed that😎😎

The 6.5 CM is the equivalent of a man bun, sandals, and a European shoulder bag. LOL!

Honestly, if you're that concerned with what people think of the caliber of rifle you shoot, maybe you should grow a man bun, wear sandals and have your wife pick you out a "shoulder bag". 😖

Shoot the damn gun, hit the damn target and slay the damn deer!
The deer doesn't know and doesn't care about bullet diameter nor case capacity!
Heaviest deer I ever killed was with a .22 Hornet!

Put that pill in the right spot and deer will fall over dead, just like you planned.

Some of it is from magnum users and other types of over compensators.

Then there are the various maladies like CBHS, CDS and PCIS.

I don't give a [bleep] what anyone thinks about what I shoot or what I shoot at! 6.5CM is much like any other round.
Put it in the right spot and it's deadly.

I just don't like that it replaced everything else.

This can advance into CBHS.