I have spent the past year shooting a 25 CM. The cartridge has been amazing. Recoil is slightly better than a 6.5, and with the 131 grain Ace cuts the wind and shoots like a laser. But, having said that as a gamer cartridge it left me short a couple of times on windy days. Shooting small targets inside of 400, seeing splash was difficult off of rickety barricades. So I started thinking about going to a low recoil round like a 6BR or maybe a dasher. Then I landed in the 6GT. I looked at the the data and decided I would team the 6GT case up with the blackjack 131 and get the best of both worlds.
Shot it for the first time at our club match and it was everything I had hoped for. Light recoil, bucked the wind, and easy load for. Final load was 2800fps. Made a 2nd round impact at 1200 yards in 12-15 mph x wind, and missed a prairie dog popper at 250 off a barricade, but saw the miss and was able to correct.
I have write-up on the development here 25GT
Drop table from the match yesterday.
Shot it for the first time at our club match and it was everything I had hoped for. Light recoil, bucked the wind, and easy load for. Final load was 2800fps. Made a 2nd round impact at 1200 yards in 12-15 mph x wind, and missed a prairie dog popper at 250 off a barricade, but saw the miss and was able to correct.
I have write-up on the development here 25GT
Drop table from the match yesterday.