Didn't get to shoot one yet, but from dozen articles I've read on it, it should be good for deer sized game. More punch than a .223, and flatter shooting than many bigger cartridges.
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My r3eactiuon to the sporterization of this round is the same one Elmer Keith had when Remington brought out the 8mm Rem. mag: "What's it good for?"
To state that it kills deer just as well as the .257 Roberts pretty much says it all! We've had the Roberts since about 1930, and it has always has been a great dual-purpose deer & varmint cartridge. And I can see the need to develop a round for the M16 rifle platform that has more stopping power than the 5.56mm. But to make a hunting round out of it gives us nothing we haven't had since the early days of the last century. I'd personally prefer to see CZ put the .250 Savage into a platform like the 527 carbine, instead!
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It's really not up to the .257 Roberts level of performance - at least at distance. Bullet is shorter and fatter; and runs out of gas earlier as it flies downrange. Compare the performance at 300 yards . . . .
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almost ordered one just so I'd have a deer caliber upper for my AR-15, but before the brass was readily available I saw where a guy was building uppers chambered in 25 WSSM, so I ordered one, man is it awesome, shoots better than 95% of bolt guns and flatter than the 6.8, now there is no need to get a 6.8 SPC, the 25 will cover those bases
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There isn't a need for nearly any of the cartridges we use today.
.22lr, .223, 30-06, 375H&H and a true big bore such as the 458 Lott. Everything else is a solution to a problem that didn't exist. [&:] Not to sound like a jerk but.........So what, who cares.
Until recently there has only been two .277 cartridges available, the .270 Winchester and the .270 Weatherby mag. It's about time that more manufacturers made more cartridges based on this bullet diameter.
I have not used one but I think it would make a superb round in a short compact rifle such as Rugers frontier or Remingtons model 7. I also think that all youth rifles should be chambered in this round. Encore handguns would also do very well with this cartridge.
It is easily a 250 yard cartridge for deer sized game animals.
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The 6.8 was developed for the AR-15. I can see a valid use in that. What I was refering too, was Remington chambering the 6.8 in a bolt action rifle. You gain nothing.
6.8 SPC
