Serious question, does your wife allow you to talk when she's around?

You are comparing a cartridge that belongs in a long action to a cartridge that belongs in a short action.

If we are going to compare long action cartridges, let's go get a 6.5X284, and a 6.5-06, and a 6.5-06 A.I. All having the same .473" bolt face.

Then look at those next to the 6.5X55

Otherwise, you were stacking the deck in your favor. Tampering with the voting machines, and adding late night ballots.

Was not me that ever claimed they were ballistic twins. That was someone else. What I said was first the 260, then the
6.5 Creedmoor both tried to do the same things the 6.5x55 does so well. Both are close. Neither are as good unless you want to shoot factory ammunition. That doesn’t apply to me. I will add that I don’t see any special magic a short action adds to the numbers after the bolt is closed. The magic of the 6.5 Creedmoor is giving the non reloader something to use to play with modern optics and range finders that previously was primarily the domain of hand loaders. Hornady used the 6.5 Creedmoor to bull their way into the market of Federals very good Gold Metal Match ammunition without going head to head in .223 or .308. That is the lick Hornady hit.

No, I made it 1:45

Well There you go

Spomer has been trying to be relevant for the past 10 years at least. He hasn't done it yet. You can take anything he says with a grain of salt.

Every time he pops up on a FB feed I think of texas dan! Trys so hard to be relevant..

This made me laugh, especially the comments above when the wife talks!!! Only reason I take a pass through the texas dan posts!!!

Yall keep’em coming I need a good laugh!

I like the guy.

It's a lot like Crossfit. Crossfit is actually a really good workout and has many positives. The problem is the first, second, and third rule of Crossfit is 'You must tell everyone about Crossfit'. So, much like the Creedmoor, you had a few people try it and then go out and proclaim it to be the absolute pinnacle of performance. Many times those idiots had no idea what they were saying or whether it was accurate. This causes many to turn a deaf ear and some to become militant in their ridicule of all things Crossfit (or Creedmoor) because they're tired of hearing the noise. The problem is they shouldn't be ridiculing the cartridge, but instead, the idiots that wouldn't shut up.

Nailed it!

I know it wasn’t your goal but I will forever use this reference. You certainly nailed my feelings on the subject.

True...it's easier to hate both the player and the game

There, fixed it and made it historically accurate for you. they/them/it stuff is far more recent woke nonsense than 6.5 CM.

Good lord this thread went south quick LOL. The 6.5 Creedmoor really does bring out strong opinions in everyone . If only everyone would put 100k behind their strong opinions on the matter (and their personal skill obviously), someone here could walk away with some decent spending cash

I reload 129 gr. Interlocks, 123 gr. SST's and 90 gr. V-MAX for my CM and all of them are very accurate and very deadly on the varmints, vermin and whitetail deer around here in Central Texas. I have found the caliber to be easy to reload, and love the fact that it is so "forgiving," as far as reloading goes. Just about any combination of powder and bullets come together quickly to produce good groups. Why people "hate" an inanimate object like a firearm caliber is a mystery to me. What not spend your time hating Democrats. . .

I never go for a heart shot on a hog, I prefer neck, down and back from the ear. On this one, I really wanted to kill him, and as soon as I dropped my bipod, hit the ground, found him in my scope, armpit/heart was where the cross hairs landed. Had I cut him open, I'm sure his heart would have been mush. 90% of the hogs I kill, mostly big lone boars, are with a SST bullet, .308, 165 gr. SST. I really like getting some work with my 6.5 Creedmoor so in the off season it's what I carry, shooting 129 gr. SST. Things work repeatedly and it's hard to stop doing it: SST bullet on big hogs and deer, prone, off of a bipod. I never would have selected my 6.5 Creedmoor to kill the biggest animal of my life but it worked out great. I am shooting a great rifle, but like mikei stated above the 6.5 Creedmoor of mine shoots about three different Hornady varieties of ammo equally well. Very accurate and it's a killer.

Yeah, those 129 gr. interlocks group surprisingly well for what they are and we've definitely taken whitetail with them. My kids operate their own little e-commerce business...this year they started using it to lower their reloading costs by buying up Hornady equipment, claiming the "Get Loaded" rewards and reselling the equipment... those 129 gr. interlocks are one of the bullets you get free under the Hornady Get Loaded program... so far this year, they've claimed around 20,000 of those free 129 gr. interlocks LOL. Got a bunch of the 150 Gr. .308's and 139 Gr. 7MM as well.

You should try out the A-tip's though, Powder Valley has a bunch of factory seconds for half the normal price: https://www.powdervalley.com/produc...atch-metal-tip-match-box-of-100-bullets/

I've been able to get some pretty amazing performance out of the A-tips (paper/steel wise, haven't hunted with them).

My farthest hits on steel are from a Hornady A-tip.

.30 cal
250 gr A-tip
.300 Norma Mag, 30" barrel
MV 2980 fps

2180 yards (1.25 mile)

I've killed lots of deer and hogs with this cartridge, and bullets including Accubond, ballistic tip, ELDX, partition, TTSX. I love the AB's, but IMO the best combo of BC, accuracy, bullet quality, and flat out killing prowess is the 139 Scenar.

Given the wide variety of 6.5 bullet styles and weights available, it's really hard to find a bad hunting bullet given the moderate velocities produced, which is yet another huge attribute to this cartridge.

Seems Trash Can Dan is now absent from his own thread, while posting elsewhere.

Will crushed once again. And we can keep crushing it till rapture. Because he will continue to post more trash.