+1 there. Much bigger bullet selection and better performance. May kick a bit harder than the .25-06 depending on rifle and load but not much. I'm actually thinking about building one of those myself. I have a couple K98 actions laying around here somewhere I could probably get close to matching ballistics from the 6.5-284 with a little TLC at the reloading bench. Either that or a Gibbs But since I don't shoot game over 400 yards a Gibbs would be more or less a paper toy.