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BillytheKid wrote:I apologize for raining on the parade. It is difficult to find anything negative written about the 6.5G, and it certainly has it's pluses. I don't pretend to be any kind of expert on it, I just found through tons of reading everything I could on it, that it just won't quite do what I would want it for.
Everyone has different needs and expectations, and probably for most the 6.5G will be a great rifle for them.
Bill
BillytheKid wrote:Here is my $ .02 :
I was all hot and bothered about the 6.5G for many months. But, as I kept researching it, I came to understand how the ammo is very expensive, and a .223 will do what a 6.5 will do at reasonable distances. The 6.5G will reach farther, but is at the mercy of a puff of wind at those distances.
I'll just save my pennies for Tim's .308 semi-auto upper.
Bill
BD1 wrote:BillytheKid wrote:Here is my $ .02 :
I was all hot and bothered about the 6.5G for many months. But, as I kept researching it, I came to understand how the ammo is very expensive, and a .223 will do what a 6.5 will do at reasonable distances. The 6.5G will reach farther, but is at the mercy of a puff of wind at those distances.
I'll just save my pennies for Tim's .308 semi-auto upper.
Bill
I have not found this to be the case in my own experience. I do not own a 6.5 Grendel, but I do own several 6.5 x 55s, and I've hunted a fair bit with them, and shot them competitively, as well as with the .223. I've found the 6.5 x 55 to be adequate for deer in the 250 lb range out to 350 yards, something I would definitely not try with the .223. I believe that more moose have been taken with the 6.5 x 55 than all other calibers combined. My "truck" gun is a cut down swede set up scout style and I can't imagine a situation east of the Mississippi where I'd think I'd rather have a .308.
The "puff of wind" comment seems a little off base to me as all of my experience has been that any of the 6.5s using 139-140 grainers will experience less wind drift than a .308 with any common loading at all ranges, and the difference becomes pronounced at ranges over 400 yards. This was the genesis of the 6.5 x .284, 6.5 Grendel and 6.5 Creedmore.
BD
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