well either the 6.5s are THE gun to have or the craze is dieing. Went gun shopping last week at 4 different shops and half the rifles they had were creedmores. Was it because everyone wants one or because everyone that wants one already has one and there sitting there. Either way a PILE of them has sold. One even to my hunting partner. He picked one up for crop damage shooting. Hes not a real gun guy and told me he bought it because it was the flattest shooting sob in his safe. I had to laugh. Hes has a 257 wby a 25.06 and a 300wsm and the real comical thing is he has a ruger 264 mag. Hated to bust his bubble and tell im all he really bought was a 260 rem at best and less then a 6.5 swede. .
He doesnt shoot 1000 yards. Heck i doubt hes ever shot a deer past 400. He passes on shots i take all the time. Wanted to set him straight but its one time i sucked it up and kept my opinion to myself. If he wants to love his new gun ill let him. Basicaly it will probably kill just fine at the ranges he shoots and 5 years from now will have killed a couple hundred deer and he will swear by it. Never was there a cartridge since the 270 that gun writters got more people to drink the kool-aid then the 6.5. I guess its the reason ill never own one or detest the 270. there the darlings of wanabe gun experts. Buy yourself a 270 or your not even a rilfeman. Buy an 06 and your a boring grandpa. 308? Hardly good past 200 yard if you ask those 270 guys.
Some things blow my mind when it comes to this stuff. Like why the 280 with a MUCH wider variety of bullets died and the 270 set sales records. Why the 257 roberts never took off when the 243 sold like gang busters. Mostly the reason is like i said before. Rags like guns and ammo and there so called experts. dont get me wrong i like new things too. I love my ar15 in 6.5 grendel and just built one in 300hmr. But i love them because they make an ar into a deer rifle. The 6.5 creed really doesnt do anything that already wasnt being done by existing calibers. For the real long range crowd there already history being replaced by the 6mm creed and the 6.5 prc.(which by the way was on the gunshops shelves too) But im still kind of chuckling at my buddy. Hes got the gun. No ammo or even dies to be found anywhere. Bullets are about non existent. Only ammo he found was two boxes of some needle nosed long range hp stuff that sure isnt deer medicine. He would have been much better off with a 243 or 308. At least then he could have used my dies and if he didnt have bullets himself i sure do. Have to wonder if by september he will even have it ready to kill deer.