What is "natch" ammo? Can't tell if its some kind of secret squirrel code? Missing the "S" at the front? Or a typo for Match...
Just goes to show I need help any way you look at it.
There's a lot of 6.5CM hate all of a sudden. WTF happened?
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What is "natch" ammo? Can't tell if its some kind of secret squirrel code? Missing the "S" at the front? Or a typo for Match...
Just goes to show I need help any way you look at it.
Tried the method of not gutting a deer past couple times. Don’t see a reason to even do it now. Peel the skin off, take the front shoulders and back straps, cut spine at the pelvis and let thr carcass drop into the bucket, no nasty gut pile.
I still love my 6.5's. AND my .308's. Briefly considered a 6mm, but then remembered - I already have a pellet gun. 
Hey, we're all about low effort
Moma sez = You 308 shooters are just jealous, cuz the man bun gun guys can jus jerk da trigger an hit what dey aiming at.
Dey don need no stinking "fundamentals" an your strait sqeeeeez back finger pull displin nonsense.
Hell I like my 308 at 1K, I can squeeze the trigger lift my head up take a sip of water look back into the scope and...... wait for it.
Ok there is the impact.
Ok there is the impact.
My only thoughts are that it has been over hyped, and it doesn't quite live up to the hype.
I was a 6.5x47 Lapua before the Creedmoor came out. So I wasn't happy that Hornady came out with their own cartridge.
I have owned quite a few 6.5 Creedmoors since then I don't think there is anything magical about it. It is about as flat shooting as the 300 Winchester (not very flat) and nothing near what a 270, 6.5 PRC, 264 Win, 25-06 or anything else is.
Doesn't kick! So old men in their scooters like it.
Kind of like the 6.5 Swede it works, but isn't special.
Works very well for medium to small sized big game animals up to 400ish pounds within 400 yards. Gets less effective once you increase the size of the animal or the distance.
I was a 6.5x47 Lapua before the Creedmoor came out. So I wasn't happy that Hornady came out with their own cartridge.
I have owned quite a few 6.5 Creedmoors since then I don't think there is anything magical about it. It is about as flat shooting as the 300 Winchester (not very flat) and nothing near what a 270, 6.5 PRC, 264 Win, 25-06 or anything else is.
Doesn't kick! So old men in their scooters like it.
Kind of like the 6.5 Swede it works, but isn't special.
Works very well for medium to small sized big game animals up to 400ish pounds within 400 yards. Gets less effective once you increase the size of the animal or the distance.
I can pick up clean 308 first fired range brass at a local range when the small agencies check equipment.
The 3 oh hate stays.
if i am not good at something, i try to practice until i get better instead of just changing the game to make it easier.
i suppose if you can keep buying newer and easier shit to shoot, more power to you.
i suppose if you can keep buying newer and easier shit to shoot, more power to you.
I'd say 'Tell that to Gerald Bull'.... but he got snuffed.
Sooner or later, the lifting body boolit... and the gas assisted projectile will find its way down to small arms.
Just 'sayin.
Sirhr
It comes on a plate with tortilla chips, delicious melty cheese, some tomatoes and jalopeno slices.
Don't you pay attention?
Sirhr
My dad and I were early creedmoor shooters. Then the marketing bullshit drug all the fuckheads. Guys telling me the knockdown power, and crazy ranges it’s effective at. Bunch of idiots that can’t even read the end of an ammo box, let alone plug real data into a ballistic solver. I still shoot the 6.5 creedmoor along with 260(6.5-308) when we got involved with it. Also shoot 6.5-06 and 6.5/55. All are good calibers. Around here the typical idiot with a creedmoor has a savage in the lss MDT chassis. Along with the requisite Harris knock off bipod and Vortex diamond back tactical. Seldom shot past 100 yards, but they know it’s sub moa at a mile.
I like the confused faces from creedmoor guys when they find out I shoot a .308 by choice and I don't care about PRS.
Everyone automatically thinks a 6.5 is a prs gun. Lots of disappointment when they find out it’s not the new hotness in barricade bench rest
i was told to start with something low recoil, and get a bolt gun because gas guns are harder to shoot well...
so of course i shoot a .308 gas gun.
/not shooting prs either.
Probably not now that I think about it. Did I mention that I don't care about PRS?
I shoot a 6.5 CM. My son shoots a 7CM wiildcat that Mark at SAC spun for me. Both are great deer and antelope guns to about 600yds. Don't care what anybody else shoots, I shoot what works for me. That kind of attention to others is for sheep and pussies. Mind yourself. I still have and shoot a 16" .308 a fair amount. In the same vain I don't take note what others drive, how often you go out to eat or any other thing that makes you different from me. I just don't care.
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Lots of 308 left at the range.
Passed by a couple hundred FC brass today.
Just didn't feel like picking it up and adding to the 1k (or more) I already have.
Most of fun of shitting on 6.5 is because of the marketing and fandom around it. I drive a first gen Tacoma and I constantly shit on it around my Toyota worshiping friends.
They are fun, although overpriced. Provided they don't have the frame rusted out, shot rear leafs, cracked heads, burned valves, timing chain failure, etc.
My buddies tell me they run forever.
They are perfect
That’s for sure and yea
Prices are dumb now but they do kinda earn their reputation
I’d love an older forerunner
That’s for sure and yea
Prices are dumb now but they do kinda earn their reputation
I’d love an older forerunner
Quite a bit of PRS bashing too. What competitions do the cool kids shoot?
(I'm actually curious and admit I'm uncool and uninformed.)
(I'm actually curious and admit I'm uncool and uninformed.)
I've never gotten into competitions, but I like practical field comps or stuff more like the old sniper's hide cup.
*anxiously rubs arms*
I gotta a '97 4Runner if y'all got any more of them small rifle primers.
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Gotta shoot this. Two years from now it'll be ya gotta shoot that. Another to years, gotta shoot this.
Buncha BS. Shoot whatever the hell you like , for whatever reason you like or no reason at all.
I don't have a 6.5 Creedmoooo... but there's one on the way, theoretically, when it will arrive who knows. Why did I choose that cartridge? Because I don't own one.
The last rifle I bought was a .25-06. Ya know why I chose that one? Because I didn't own one. Rifle before that was a 6CM. Because I didn't own one. (I have no driving desire for a .25 Creedmoor, but I would like a .25 Souper. Does that make any sense? Nope, but it doesn't need to.) Lets see... rifle before that was a 450/400NE, you guessed it, because I didn't own one. Rifle before that, a .250-3000... because I didn't have one. "One of each" (at least at one time or another) is my goal.
I feel sorry for folks who only do what internet forums tell them. And I'm completely at a loss when I see people making posts about consolidating and sticking with one or two rounds. Mindboggling.
Buncha BS. Shoot whatever the hell you like , for whatever reason you like or no reason at all.
I don't have a 6.5 Creedmoooo... but there's one on the way, theoretically, when it will arrive who knows. Why did I choose that cartridge? Because I don't own one.
The last rifle I bought was a .25-06. Ya know why I chose that one? Because I didn't own one. Rifle before that was a 6CM. Because I didn't own one. (I have no driving desire for a .25 Creedmoor, but I would like a .25 Souper. Does that make any sense? Nope, but it doesn't need to.) Lets see... rifle before that was a 450/400NE, you guessed it, because I didn't own one. Rifle before that, a .250-3000... because I didn't have one. "One of each" (at least at one time or another) is my goal.
I feel sorry for folks who only do what internet forums tell them. And I'm completely at a loss when I see people making posts about consolidating and sticking with one or two rounds. Mindboggling.
I joke, but it is a good little truck. People just act like they aren't susceptible to basic mechanical issues. I think mine had some neglect. I'm swapping the cracked head this weekend.
It really was impressive how much abuse that thing took.That poor, poor frame
Let's not forget the health benefits of 6.5 Creedmoor.
When married with a quality Euro rifle... Tikka, Sako, AI, it can cure cancer within a 20 metre radius.
Even when stored in firearms cabinet.
Crossing creeks or rivers with above mentioned combos, leaves water purified and fish splendid.
Cannot resurrect the dead though.
When you shoot something with that combo.... it's dead for all eternity.
When married with a quality Euro rifle... Tikka, Sako, AI, it can cure cancer within a 20 metre radius.
Even when stored in firearms cabinet.
Crossing creeks or rivers with above mentioned combos, leaves water purified and fish splendid.
Cannot resurrect the dead though.
When you shoot something with that combo.... it's dead for all eternity.
