Nobody ever said the .22-250 is the parent case for the 6.5, your straw man is moot.
Ridge said it's nothing more than a blown out, necked up 22-250. Which is true.
Now, back to a topic which might aid the OP - what I really would like to know (having only a few hundred rounds through my 6.5 myself), is how all of these PRS guys recommending the 6.5 creed are ignoring the barrel life issue. The more guys I talk to, the more I'm hearing barrel life is in the same ballpark as the 6.5-284 or 7Prac/7rum. Won't surprise me if it is, but I'm not sure how you can recommend the 6.5c as cheaper to shoot than a 308win if the barrel life is half as long. I haven't burned one myself yet, so time will tell (if I keep this thing that long), but it seems barrel life may be one of those "gotcha's" for the 6.5. Not that a 260r barrel would last longer, of course.
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