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Currently stocking some 143 Horn ELDXs and 140 NPTs. That will cover a LOT. If moose hunting, I would load and sight for the ELDXs, and have the NPTs handy for close shots. I think of the Creed as a 6.5 Swede Improved 😊

It's one of those cartridges (along with the 7-08 unsurprisingly) that a person could probably own along with a 375 and a 22lr and hunt the world with.

When I had to switch to left handed shooting I picked up a 6.5 CM Tikka T3x lite and put a 3x9 4200 on it. An employee didn't have a rifle at all, and I didn't have time to hunt it, so I handed it to him to sight in and hunt with. Handed him a box of Hornady Whitetail ammo and off he went.

Came back a bit later and was a little bit non-plussed. He'd shot the first three shots for group, under an inch, made the correction on the scope to get to zero, and fired three more into an inch group, right where it was supposed to be.

He'd never had a rifle that shot in the same spot twice, and never had a scope that moved reliably where it was supposed to. Could not believe you could just buy a rifle and a scope and be ready to hunt in six shots. It's been bloodied since, and all clean one shot kills.

For whatever that's worth, but I think the 6.5 CM seems to be, indeed, the "easy" button.

“Easy button”
Best explanation I’ve heard so far

Ain't that the truth.

Haters sit back and hate, obviously haven't used one.

Or, they wouldn't be haters.

And, it takes some effort and luck to stay ahead of factory ammo

DF

I'd have a 6.5CM but own a list of other "middle-of-the-road" deer rifles I really don't need already. I have a 6CM, so close enough.

No man-bun here but I do wear Crocs.

For my hunting here, I could live with a 6.5CM (for deer), a 30-06 (for moose), a 20ga SXS (for grouse) and a 10/22 for the really big stuff.

Darryle, Last week I was shopping Atwoods in Jacksonville looking for dog food on the way home from a monster Estate Sale, where I scored a couple shooters for my resale antique furniture bidnizz in the deep piney woods south of Tyler last week and was shopping for a CM of some sort for a Best Buy for the dollar for a better than expected beater rifle to hunt the new Neches River multi County State Owned property with - think another Big Sam Nat'l Forest out side of Huntsville sized property.

Anyway Atwoods has a bigger selection of midrange priced shooters than I expected and will probably be where I'll drop my pocket change when the time comes to get serious. Price's in Tyler OTOH at the big fancy Safari Outfitter started at $750+ and went up bigtime past the $1500's+ , but they were purtyier for sure , and surprisingly the big chain store from Houston across the parking lot is also too high .

Wal Mart in Palestine to my surprise also had a wall rack display full of of 6.5 CM's of all kinds in the $400 to $600+ range and had ammo, including Norma on the shelf too. LOT's of interest in East Texas for CM's where 30'06's have been king for over 75+ years.
Ron

140 eldm's for the win.

You don't need partitions for "close shots". Hell you don't need eldx for close range. If 60yds is close enough, eldm's work just fine....on an elk's shoulder.