Nomercy448

It seems to me - observationally - that there are far more folks who make a lot of claims about “rabid 6.5 creed fanbois” than there are of rabid 6.5 creed fanbois actually making claims about the Creed...

Let’s be clear on two things:

1) Neither is a bad cartridge.

2) The 6.5 Creedmoor isn’t “hard to beat.” There’s no competition format in which the 6.5 Creedmoor has a dominating share in the winners’ circle, and has NOT been for at least 6 years. It’s had a diminishing place at the table for a long time, but even since at LEAST 2015, it has not held a majority position among the shooters qualifying for the PRS finale (the game it was supposedly designed to dominate). In every competition format under the sun, it’s exceptionally easy to “beat” the 6.5 Creedmoor, which is why it’s not a dominating cartridge in any form of competition.

While the 6.5 creed smokes the older, slower, less aerodynamic 308win in every objective measure, it’s not a dominant competition cartridge. It’s a gateway drug that us competitors warn newbies to avoid because even it has too many weaknesses in the field of competition. But to the credit of the Creedmoor, the 308winchester is so far removed, a special handicap class exists to allow them to compete only against eachother (and 223rems).

For a casual shooter, either can be a viable option, just as a dozen or a hundred other cartridges could be. But when this particular ball continues to be kicked around, us in the competition side continue to see new COMPETITIVE shooters be mislead into buying a 6.5 Creedmoor, and inherently handicapping themselves. In the context of competition, the discussion between 6.5 creed and 308win is basically like discussing the best behaved kids in detention, or the fastest kids in the slow heat of a race... they don’t really deserve the attention they’re getting, because at the end of the day, determining which is “better” between these two is wholly irrelevant in a discussion for what is “best” for long range shooting competition (arguably also for casual long range shooting).

Every. single. season we see new competitors come out to play with 6.5 creeds which was bought based on discussions of “what’s best, a 6.5 creed or 308win?”, and within a couple matches, they realize their mistake, and wish they’d NOT bought a 6.5.