6.5 CM as a hunting cartridge... why?

[Potsie]

Got some new RUM stuff to load. mtmuley

Ooooo… details?

Mine is stacking dimes with boring regularity with 182 HHT and H1000.

Probably going with those for spring bear this year.

 

[mtmuley]

Ooooo… details?

Mine is stacking dimes with boring regularity with 182 HHT and H1000.

Probably going with those for spring bear this year.

Lighter than the 182. And a new bullet maybe. mtmuley

 

[ismith]

Lighter than the 182. And a new bullet maybe. mtmuley

110s?

 

[mtmuley]

110s?

Nope. While some guys have had good results with the really light bullets, not for me. mtmuley

 

[mtmuley]

How long have you been a member of Hamas?

Go away. mtmuley

 

[kodiakisland]

Got a lead on a NIB Ruger tang safety swift I think with a 26 inch barrel. What to do with it?

 

[Yooper906]

George Dieruf Sr, with a ram I’m holding. He killed it with one shot with his old Winchester pre 64 model 70 in 220 Swift. This was 1985. He was 77 years old.
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I just like the Tigers hat!

 

[pilsner]

You start some weird threads for just being a bird watcher

Completely unrelated but have you ever noticed the number of birds called "cocks"? Also, unrelated but Ive never heard any birder refer to themselves as a "@#)(# enthusiast", but I'd wager that in that community there are folks who brag about seeing every species of that type...

 

[pilsner]

A little known benefit of the Flutie pill is that you can save weight on backcountry trips since you only need one trekking pole for your trekking pole shelter.

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and youre already pre-treating altitude sickness!

 

[pilsner]

I just don’t see how bringing up a shooting scenario that is outside most people capabilities in order to prove / disprove your opinion on what you believe to be an “elk round” helps your argument. Your argument looks like, hey I want a larger cartridge because my ethical shot scenario / distance changes depending on the size of the animal in my scope, therefore I need (insert round) to compensate for a bad shot. And I’m not disagreeing with your stance, I love large calibers. But the argument ehh. I’ll go back to putting mayonnaise in a toaster

Because the same folks that cant do it with a 6.5 ThunderCunt could do it with a 300 Win Mag? I have no idea what point that you are trying to make here.
Sorry - question is for the OP that we are both responding to not to you Buffalo. *tips hat* apologizes for the confusion.

 

[T.R.]

Many shooters have become enamored with 6.5CM rifles but not for me. Where I hunt deer in northern Florida, 30-30 is tops for locations where shooting rarely exceeds 125 yards or so. I suspect this shooting distance is replicated across our continent wherever forests exist. But I also own a super accurate .243 that I prefer for stands over looking palmetto flats where a 200 yards shot may occur. I am not against others for buying a 6.5CM, but NOT for me. TR

 

[406cowboycarpenter]

There are a number of arguments in favor of the 6.5 CM. The ones I accept have to do with OAL as it relates to high BC bullets in traditional short actions, availability for the MSR crowd, better shoulder angle for reloaders and greater inherent accuracy.

But for a hunting round, I have to say (after owning and loading for several 6.5 CM's) - I fail to see the point of this cartridge.

Now, please don't take me for an old curmudgeon or worse yet, respond with "okay boomer" (being a proud Gen-X), but why on God's green earth would any hunter choose a 6.5 CM over a .308 or 7mm-08, or even a .260 or .243? When you compare the 6.5 CM to the .308 and 7mm-08 in practical hunting applications, it fails to measure up in almost any way.

Okay, sure, some might argue recoil. But is there really any noticeable difference between the recoil of a common 143-grain 6.5 CM and an also common 139-grain 7mm-08 round? Not only is there NOT, but the 7mm-08 bullet is always going to be traveling 100-200 fps. faster AND create a bigger hole.

The argument so many of us 7mm-08 fans have used to answer the .308 crowd for so long now, is lower recoil and higher BC (resulting in similar downrange ballistics beyond 300 yards) but let's face it, most folks will never in their lives shoot at a game animal beyond 200 yards.

Is this just a fascination with something "new?" Is it a marketing thing? What gives? Why on earth has the 6.5 CM taken up so much shelf space, seemingly overnight, when so many more effective hunting cartridges already exist?

6.5 cm is a nifty little cartridge and the reasons for it are well documented. It does have vastly superior ammo selection compared to 7mm-08 and extremely similar power with factory loadings compared. Great youth and wives cartridge with lead cup and core bullets. I feel the copper mono and bonded don’t do well in 6.5cm. Not enough velocity.

 

[ismith]

Been forming some 220 AI brass. Rifle shoots the factory Hornaday stuff pretty well so I need to get out an shoot some varmints while fireforming.