mcb
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300 PRC has far more interests to me than 6.5 PRC but I don't have much use for it. I would like a big heavy chassis gun in 300 PRC with some obnoxious 34-35mm dia tube optic on it. But what am I going to use it for?
it's pretty much the opposite. NRA across the course gets alibis. if you have a malfunction, you get to a do over.Times have changed from the era in shooting competition when magazine feed was important. When I shot NRA Across the Course, you had two stages of rapid fire, with a reload. If you gun jammed your score suffered. The shooting game has gone to prone, single shot only, and no one feeds from the magazine anymore. Nor do some shooters want an ejector, they stick their finger in the loading port and remove the fired cartridge with their finger.
i dunno. hunting may be dying, but it sure seems the type of hunting is moving to long range game. i'm not a fan of it, and hopefully it's just a fad that's about played out. but past few years sure seems like every old deer hunter wants to brag about how far away they've shot something.Personally, I see the 6.5 PRC as the modern age 7RM. Any purpose I would have recommended the 7RM to accomplish in the past, I’d now recommend the 6.5 PRC. Unfortunately, that particular niche is really only “hunting,” and as we know, “hunting” is a dying tradition.
i dunno. hunting may be dying, but it sure seems the type of hunting is moving to long range game. i'm not a fan of it, and hopefully it's just a fad that's about played out. but past few years sure seems like every old deer hunter wants to brag about how far away they've shot something.
6.5 PRC will handily outperform any factory .270 (magnum or not) for elk. There is no equivalent of the 160gr .264 Weldcore protected point in .277, at least not one that will stabilize in a 1:10".
That's the 26 Nosler or the Weatherby.6.5 Creedmost
I may be interested in a .25 PRC.... with a fast twist ....say 1/8 ....if the bullet makers ever decide to make some suitable bullets ....
Rural areas across the midwest are losing population, as farms and ranches grow larger, and as modern equipment allows one man to do the work of two or three a few decades ago. Old farmsteads are more and more becoming pivot tracks.it's pretty much the opposite. NRA across the course gets alibis. if you have a malfunction, you get to a do over.
the shooting game now is not just run n gun, but it's also higher round count and shot in places you're more likely to get mud, water, sand etc in your action and mag, unlike the manicured lawns of every high power range i've ever been to. and there are no alibis. fix it on the clock.
i dunno. hunting may be dying, but it sure seems the type of hunting is moving to long range game. i'm not a fan of it, and hopefully it's just a fad that's about played out. but past few years sure seems like every old deer hunter wants to brag about how far away they've shot something.
Yeah ....I knew of the BlackJack bullets ....but I was talking Sierra, Nosler, Hornady .....the main line makers that are now making heavy 6 mm , 6.5 mm.... well many except .25 caliber ....
The BlackJack .257 ....131 grain.....
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mcb said:I have never shot a deer over 100 yards.
Corn-Picker said:According to Google trends, the 6.5 PRC is about 15% as popular as the 6.5 Creedmoor (which is pretty good IMO).
Varminterror said:But I can say it’s very clear there’s not a 6:1 ratio between 6.5 Creed to 6.5 PRC’s on the streets out there...
States are still seeing large harvests of deer and such so hunting is still popular. But hunting as a way of life is way down.
I have. I shot one enough to decide I’m going to buy another Seekins Havak as a hunting rifle in 6.5 PRC, and probably rebarrel one of my wife’s Savages from 300 WSM to 6.5 PRC too.
But I can say it’s very clear there’s not a 6:1 ratio between 6.5 Creed to 6.5 PRC’s on the streets out there...
That was my thought too. I have a 6.5 PRC , a 6.5 CM and a 6.5x47 Lapua but in general I'd bet the ratio of 6.5 CM to 6.5PRC is 1,000:1 or higher. My interest in the 6.5 PRC was mainly as a hunting cartridge and maybe a Proof Sendero barrel on a Kimber 8400 WSM receiver would be the ticket.
I'd honestly probably pass on the 6.5PRC if I already had a .264 I liked......and right now that's the cartridge that I'll probably choose if I go back to a magnum 6.5The shots in most places I hunt are long and a 6.5 magnum with high SD/BC bullets is a reasonable solution. I've got a .264WM shooting 160s and it works. Light and handy too. It's not clear if 6.5PRC is an improvement though. Fast twist is nice, but not necessary for the Weldcore 160s.
What is the correlation between Google searches and actual ownership or use, ammunition purchases or the purchase of reloading components? How many here own or have shot a 6.5 PRC?