re: Most Poplular Chamberings from Christensen Arms

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They aren't the same caliber.

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Uhhhh, might want to check again.

A 6.5 x 55 and a 6.5 creedmore are exactly the same caliber. Meaning the bullets are of the same diameter. Meaning, if you handload, any bullet you load into a cartridge will work in either cartridge.

I think you are confused.


Also the same is true of a 260 Remington 6.5 Remington mag and 265 Winchester mag.


Every cartridge I listed uses a .264 bullet.

Have y’all taken a look at a 6.5 PRC? 28% more powder than a 6.5 CM.

Where does all that stuff stack up with the 264 win mag?

The 264 win mag was the original commercial souped up 6.5 and it basically flopped. 6.5-284 has also been around a long arse time. Neither of those has ever been immensely popular. Why are 6.5's all of a sudden so popular that any new 6.5 garners interest?

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I don't think anyone has an issue with the caliber, more so the marketing hype that has made Bubba think he's an expert on 1000 yard ballistic sectional coefficients and needs to tell me all the frick about it.

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6.5 CM is the CrossFit of the cartridge world. Anyone that shoots one won’t shut up about it.

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I didnt know we had hit this point finally.

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Actually, hit this point with surgeon rifles a long time ago, but nobody knew it. Before they sold to strategic armory they had the most consistent action available. Wade and them sold it and started Impact precision. I think the internet and gunsmiths are just catching on much more quickly now. There are probably 10+ actions that have prefit shouldered barrels available now. Of course they will warn you to check headspace, but whats better a $50+ set a guages or 6 months at a gunsmith?

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increased lethality/hit probabilities/lighter recoil over 308 rifles

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Increased lethality over 308? What do you mean by that?

I think it passes up the .308 somewhere way the shite out there. Way farther than most people have any business shooting at game. I think that in the heavier rifles it probably allows you to see your own hits as well where the .308 with heavy bullets has a fair bit more recoil.

I shot a deer this year at 230 steps from prone. That's close enough that ballistics are largely irrelevant with any deer caliber but far enough that it wasnt an easy shot. People concerning themselves with shooting deer at 500 yards and further are largely hillarious. Many of them might shoot a dozen shots a year max but think their christianson creedmore makes them an 800 yard hunter. I get then opportunity to aim at deer at 700+ yards a whole lot, it's tough to keep the crosshairs on brown at that range, much less make a lethal hit. I'd never try it.

There are people out there (like kengal) that shoot alot and have the skills and equipment to shoot far enough where small differences matter alot. The majority of these guys should be worried about hitting deer at 150 yards from field positions, where the equipment is for the most part irrelevant. Any modern deer rifle with a decent scope will work.

I'm trying to watch, but holy crap that dude makes it difficult to pay attention.

He talks way too slow.