What Rifle Caliber Will You NOT own?
- Thread starter BIKER13
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Now, that wasn't the question. You know where I'm going with this.
I have rifles that I have put thousands of rounds through, but they are not typically used for hunting. I've had my go-to hunting rifle for about 15 years now and have killed around 50 big game animals with it. I doubt I've put 300 rounds through it and a lot of those where when it was new and I was doing load development. A rifle specifically designed for hunting simply does not need a very long barrel life. Just like it doesn't need to be able to fire long strings of fire and maintain accuracy. If it will keep two or three rounds tight, that's all you need.
He’s an old feller alright...which doesn’t make him right. We aren’t killing elk here.
He should stick to shooting weatherbys.
Okay, I got past the part where he got a bad reamer and into the part about the bad brass. Then I stopped watching when he kept saying it was a problem with the 6.5 Creedmoor. Neither of those are a problems with the cartridge or it's performance. They are problems with a reamer and a batch of brass and that's all. Those problems can exist with any cartridge.
Does he ever actually talk about problems with the performance of the round itself?
I agree that it's not a great round for big game at extreme ranges because it doesn't have enough energy way out there, (I have a 300 RUM for that), but it also sounds like he's saying it's not effective past 600 yards as a target cartridge and that is simply a complete load of crap. A few thousands PRS shooters will back me up on that, too.
As for normal range hunting, it's as good or better than a crap ton of very popular deer hunting rounds out there.
minimum of 82 through my Win 70 in 270 caliber
