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Nope, beggar’s lice…

If I were starting over, I would absolutely go with the 6.5 CM over the .260 or 7mm-08 simply due to brass & ammo availability (and I own four different rifles in .260 and 7mm-08).

So…HERE IS THE SAD AND BAD NEWS…no cartridge will bring happiness or contentment!
Sorry.
R

They like women , they all can make you smile when they shoot right
Kenneth

Now you tell me!

Where were you 30 years ago? 😄

Exactly.

Magazine length constraints with the 260 makes me go 6.5C..mb

I stick with the 308 case based cartridges but I do have both 260 and 6.5 CM. Looney I know..

I was always anti creed. 260 rem was already there. After being on this site and seeing all the success people have with the creed and the availability of good ammo, it's a no brainer. Creedmoor

7mm-08

308

7mm-08 120 BT for everything below elk
140 accubonds for elk.

or a 8 Twist 260 or 260 AI if you're going to keep it.

I like my 7mm08. No plan to sell it. I likely have a lifetime supply of hunting ammo stocked up. But if
I was starting up or just interested in a new deer rifle I would go 6.5 CM. I shoot factory ammo. Wasnt
easy to buy the 7mm08 ammo I use the last time I wanted it buy it. But I had plenty and just kept an eye open for it and eventually was able to buy some.

I absolutely love the 7mm-08, but if I was starting over or had to rely on factory ammo, I'd have a Creed &/or .308.

Same here. While I like all three, I like the 7mm-08 the most, while acknowledging that the other two are more practical.

9.3x57mm Mauser

i have one.....
Husqvarna m46 in 9.3x57 with 275gr WFN GC under IMR4895.




i've killed 4 or 5 deer with it (20 - 60 yards) and it knocks them off their feet. the rifle is #2 in my book. #1 goes to Winchester m94 in 35/30-30 with 200gr RCBS FN GC under a load of 2400/tuft of dacron. the m94 was my first gun, first buck and first doe. it was the 30-30, but after about 35 years, i sent it to JES Reboring and he did an awesome job making it the 35/30-30. since my eyes ain't what they used to be, i put on a Williams FP aperture sight.

I was looking for a 7-08 or 308 take-off barrel (never had either) to replace the ruined .244 on a 725 that came my way. Came up with a .260 stainless 700TI instead. Screwed right on, perfect headspace. Stamping is on the bottom tho....Shoots factory 140's MOA - but so far, likes nothing else, not that I've tried hard. And no regrets at all! Maybe one day I'.. put it on the lathe and get that stamping upright. Probably not.

I've taken a number of caribou to well over 300 with it, an elk at @150, a wolf at 30 or so, hope to use it on moose. What's not to like, except factory ammo is sometimes hard to find, but I have reloading capability, which I need to explore more as I haven't done jack-all.

6.5 Creed factory ammo is seemingly everywhere. That and the .260 in a better twist than mine are virtually identical, for all practical purposes, as are the the 7-08 with 140, and the 308 with 150.

They all work very well, if hunting purpose is your huckleberry.

I used the .270 Win. some and mostly the 30-06 for more years than I care to count. Withstood the .308 Win. from its inception to mid 1973. My heavy old 30-06 was getting too much for this very heavy chain smoker and the higher altitudes so when a Remington 660 was on sale at the local hardware store for a reasonable price I snapped it up and have used it or other .308s for my deer hunting.FWIW, I quite smoking altogether in 1975 and don't miss it at all. I still use the .308 and 30-06, albeit a lighter rifle in the 06 now and was playing with the 7x57 off and on. I remember when thee 7-08 came out and as it was basically no different that a 7x57 I passed on the 7-08. For all practical purposes I can load the 7x57 using 7-08 data and the differences between the two are a non-problem.
The only 6.5 I ever messed with was a 6.5x54 Mannlicher carbine which worked OK if I got close enough. It scattered 140 gr. bullets all over hell and creation and best it would do with 160 gr. Norma ammo was 2.5". Still i lied hunting with the rifle. It was stolen in 1975 from my truck in Elko Nevada and after years trying to find a replacement, I replaced it with a Ruger RSI in .308 Win. That one has caused the demise of quite a few Mule Deer and the rifle is a favorite.
I never got into the short cartridges other than the .243 more by accident than anything else and of course the .308. I have no desire to mess with the .260 Rem. or the 6.5 Creedmore.
I like the way Elmer Keith once said, "I prefer to let every man scratch his own fleas in whatever manner he chooses. In other words, whatever floats your canoe.
PJ