the dreaded 6.5 Creedmoore for F Class?

[tvaught]

Curious if it had been marketed as a 6.5x50mm instead of the 6.5 Creedmoor, if it would be more popular on this forum.

 

[tvaught]

Big fan of Monty Python here as well, but can any of you legitimately claim to have walked more than a mile in blizzard conditions to school, up steep hills in both directions. That's a reality where I live.

Add one more to the list on uphill both ways in the snow for over a mile.

 

[rardoin]

I love that, huge Monty Python fan here. Me and my buddies have had this running gag gong on for 30 years. Absolute nonsense to drive to the range, or hunting , or anywhere with us.

Air ? we never had air when I was a child ...........

So then......uhh...can we have your liver?????

 

[rr2030]

So then......uhh...can we have your liver?????

Liver, I wish I had a Liver. No one in the family had a liver, spleen either. When I was a child we used to dream bout having all our internal organs

Liver, I wish

 

[rr2030]

Big fan of Monty Python here as well, but can any of you legitimately claim to have walked more than a mile in blizzard conditions to school, up steep hills in both directions. That's a reality where I live.

Walk to school. Let me tell you, as children we were chained to a wagon wheel and spun our way to school and that was during a fire, in the snow we had to lick a steel plate so as our tung would stick to it then mom would drag us up hill to school.

Steep hill, I wish

 

[Capt. Oblivious]

rofl

 

[Ned Ludd]

Walk to school. Let me tell you, as children we were chained to a wagon wheel and spun our way to school and that was during a fire, in the snow we had to lick a steel plate so as our tung would stick to it then mom would drag us up hill to school.

Steep hill, I wish

You're lucky you actually got to attend school. I was rarely ever unchained from the wall in the back corner of the basement.

 

[Laurie]

Curious if it had been marketed as a 6.5x50mm instead of the 6.5 Creedmoor, if it would be more popular on this forum.

........... but somebody would have posted that this is no different from the 6.5X50SR Arisaka introduced in 1897 as Imperial Japan's service cartridge, so why do we need another one?

 

[rardoin]

You're lucky you actually got to attend school. I was rarely ever unchained from the wall in the back corner of the basement.

You guy's had a basement....well aren't we the lucky one....

 

[GSPV]

Curious if it had been marketed as a 6.5x50mm instead of the 6.5 Creedmoor, if it would be more popular on this forum.

It’s not that. It’s the magical properties that get attributed to it by people that have consumed “The Creed” KoolAid and jumped off the Rational Train.

 

[DennisH]

Does anyone shoot the 6.5x55 Swede? Pretty popular in Europe! Noted as a very accurate round!

 

[rardoin]

Does anyone shoot the 6.5x55 Swede? Pretty popular in Europe! Noted as a very accurate round!

Yep...albeit and 40deg improved version (Bob Jourdan Ackley). It has served me well, good barrel life. (but loses out to the Creedmoor past 2300yds)

 

[joshb]

I do, but they’re old Mausers. Low pressure loads and slower, like the owner. Still pretty accurate tho. I wonder if the Creedmoor will be around in a hundred years?

 

[DennisH]

Yep...albeit and 40deg improved version (Bob Jourdan Ackley). It has served me well, good barrel life. (but loses out to the Creedmoor past 2300yds)

I didn't realize the Creedmoor would make it over 2,300 yards! News to me! Almost 1.3 miles!

Correct me if wrong. 1760 yards equals "1" mile!

 

[rardoin]

I didn't realize the Creedmoor would make it over 2,300 yards! News to me! Almost 1.3 miles!

Correct me if wrong. 1760 yards equals "1" mile!

You are correct. Concerning the Creedmoor....that is what the sales guy at Cabela's told me when I bought mine last April 1st.


Serious about the 6.5 x55 though....

 

[GSPV]

Greg Walley came up with the 6.5x55 GWI.

I’m really dredging up some stuff here and am out on a limb with respect to my failing memory, but I think there might have also been a 7x55 GWI.

 

[rardoin]

Greg Walley came up with the 6.5x55 GWI.

I’m really dredging up some stuff here and am out on a limb with respect to my failing memory, but I think there might have also been a 7x55 GWI.

Never heard of the 7 but I did consider the 6.5 GWI...but I found a package deal on Jourdan including reamer/brass/WTC die. Otherwise I'd have chosen the Walley.

 

[GSPV]

Never heard of the 7 but I did consider the 6.5 GWI...but I found a package deal on Jourdan including reamer/brass/WTC die. Otherwise I'd have chosen the Walley.

I’m getting old and I’ve had several concussions, so don’t hold me to that. It might have been something that I thought about myself when I was in the early stages of the 7x47 Lapua that I shoot. I just needed a shorter case than the Swedenor even the 308 family. Had Lapua produced SRP brass for the Creedmoor at the time, I *might* have used that as my base case. Maybe. The 6.5x47 is the perfect length. If it had just a hair more capacity...well, we all like velocity .

 

[DennisH]

You are correct. Concerning the Creedmoor....that is what the sales guy at Cabela's told me when I bought mine last April 1st.


Serious about the 6.5 x55 though....

I am going to research this. 2.300 yards is a long way for most rifles.

Dennis

 

[GSPV]

2,300 yards. OK. How big is the target? How many shots do you have to hit it?

I, frankly, don’t understand why people are interested in hitting larger, say 36”x36”, targets at longer ranges and being OK with hitting it less than every time. Just doesn’t seem practical for hunting.