Hornady Corporation petitioned the United States Geological Service to report earthquakes in "Creedmoor" scale which will be analogous to Centigrade/Celsius.
They are willing to make "donations" for the promotional benefits as many potential customers are concerned that the Hornady 6.5 Creedmoor might be insufficiently powerful enough for elk, black bears and home intruders.
Ultimately, Hornady wants to compile a video montage of 6.5 Creedmoor events toppling buildings, breaching dams and collapsing bridges.
Babylon Bee? Or some other purveyor of satire?
ReplyDelete6.5mm... Hmm, The smallest caliber bullet that is allowed up here to hunt big game. Kinda says it all.
ReplyDeleteFolks over-think these things. They would be better off in the woods than staring at a computer screen.
DeleteMy thinking is that if you can poke any North American non-dangerous game animal in the heart-lung with an expanding bullet impacting at velocities between 2200fps and 2700fps then you will have a dead animal on the ground hasty-quick. At lower speeds (like 30-30) you will want quicker-than-average expanding bullets. At impact speeds above 2700fps you want stouter-than-average expanding bullets.
It is counter-intuitive but faster bullets are more likely to product wide-but-shallow wound channels while slower moving projectiles (at impact) tend to produce narrower-but-deeper wound channels.
A 129 grain, 6.5mm, spire-point projectile launched at 2800fps drops to 2200fps at 300 yards which is WAY farther than your causal hunter will be able to see, much less hit game.
Cynics say that it is not even necessary to track moose and elk. Simply walk over to the deepest, coldest, muckiest hole and that is where you will find the dead moose, or in the case of elk, find the steepest slope and look down and the elk will be at the bottom. That might be humor. Or maybe not.
That kind of sarcastic humor is beneath you. It is such a wondrous cartridge, that I have ACTUALLY considered getting it! If it weren't for the condition of being broke, already having a 6.5 Swede and a .308, I would CERTAINLY have one.
ReplyDeleteWatch your tone mister! Harrumph!
Snort...
ReplyDeleteshould be the 6.5 PRC scale. If you've ever been near one when it went off, you'd know what I mean...
ReplyDeleteWow.
ReplyDeleteThere's only two ways to do 6.5.
ReplyDelete6.5x55 - for the stubfarts, Fudds, and traditionalists like yours truly. Bonus points for chambering that in a classic Mauser or other respectable makers.
6.5-.284 - served up, piping hot, by a Ruger No.1 with a 24" bull barrelled pipe...
I'm with you! The Swede will always be in my heart.
DeleteI would concede a Creed more bullet should be sufficient for home intruders.
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