These guys happen to be sponsored?So a question I have asked multiple times to the OP, but have yet to receive an answer:
Why have ALL top shooters in long range competition given up on the 260 Remington? The 6.5 Creedmoor remains, but the 260 has completely fallen off of the map.
Noting here, a presumed favor for several of your preference for the .260rem:
• These are custom rifles with custom barrels, giving equal opportunity for any shooter to maximize performance by ordering custom twists and custom throats for their bullet choice.
• These are ALMOST exclusively reloaders, giving the shooters access to load their ammo to whatever pressure standard they see fit.
• These are long range competitors focused on gaining any advantage for ballistic coefficient and velocity they can find.
So why would these shooters, with access to both 6.5 creed and 260 Rem completely abandon the 260, but remain to use the 6.5 creed? Equally, why did they completely abandon the 243win, with the 6mm Creedmoor being the second most popular cartridge in the game?
Precision Rifle Blog publishes a series of “load out articles,” following the PRS Finale (and now NRL Finale too). They missed 2017, but the data is below for 2015, 2016, and 2018.
There were 6 shooters in the top 100 in 2015 using the 260, with 18 using 6.5 creed. Only one shooter using 243win, with 18 using 6 creed (a wildcat only option at that time, as it wasn’t SAAMI standardized until 2017).
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The subsequent year, only ONE shooter remained shooting 260 Remington, and only ONE with 243win, while 9 used the 6.5 creed, and 6 used the 6 creed (again, still a non-SAAMI wildcat).
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Two seasons later, the 260 is completely off of the map, 6 shooters still using the 6.5 creed, and 35 shooters using the 6 creedmoor.
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So what magic sauce have you discovered which proves all of these top level competitive long range shooters haven’t been able to see? These top shooters which include professional shooter teams, professional manufacturers of bullets/ammo/powder, and some of the most talented and respected rifle builders (no teams or individual shooters sponsored by SAAMI, last I knew)... What do you know about the 308win case which has somehow escaped these professional competitors, such they made the “bad decision” to drop the 260 and 243 for the 6.5 and 6 creeds?
Then does that sponsorship help people like you buy the hype?
The Magic sauce is coming.
I'm baffled by why you ignore several facts and references to load data/manufacturers incomplete or none matching data,border line dangerous in your own opinion as with the 357 mag data above, without coming down on them as you do me. What they say is God's word what I say is blasphemy? You have zero non-bias facts at all. All you site are references from the very people I am telling you manipulate it.