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Yeah, the Creedmoor is surely on more of an upswing right now than the 260 Rem and 6.5 Swede. This despite that fact that ballistically, all three are about the same. Put 'me in a bag, shake it and dump em out. That's about the extent of their differences. The main differences now are the CM's better availability of factory ammo & brass, as well as higher quality factory ammo. It'll be interesting to see where the CM is 10 years from now.

Pretty much this is why I want a CM over a Swede. Also, for hand Loaders, apparently (from my reading) the swede loads that are published are old and underperform what newer guns can handle when everything for the 6.5CM is obviously new and up to date.

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Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt

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Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:23 pm to TigernMS12

The crede piggybacked off the tactical popularity, being marketed from jumpstreet as a light recoiling long range caliber. Like TotH said, there's several ballistic equivalents out there. The crede was a tactical caliber first which created a buzz and the hunting community is just starting to embrace it. It's a fine deer caliber and IMO it won't be long at all before you start seeing it in all the popular deer rifles.

The swede suffers from being extremely old, European, and too long to fit in a standard short action. The .260 suffers from being boring. It's just a good deer caliber, like so many others out there.

The crede is the new kid on the block riding a wave of hype. It'll be around for a long time.

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Posted by ChatRabbit77

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Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:43 pm to TigernMS12

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6.5CM is obviously new and up to date

The 6.5 Creedmoor does everything that the .308 does but better. The only drawback compared to .308 is barrel life but for a hunting rifle, this is a non-issue.

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