25 Creedmoor - too soon for average guy like me?

[Varminterror]

My Long Range friend was talking the other day about some one of these cartridges, I forget which, was just plain easy to get hits with. Would one help me? I doubt it.

I would bet highly on it. Advantaged cartridges "help" shooters at all levels to get more hits or shoot smaller groups, whether elite professional competitors or first timers, and typically, the lower the skill of the shooter, the more influential will be any advantage.

 

[Varminterror]

How would I build a 25 CM for $2500? Specifically who’s action and barrel?

Masterpiece Arms sells their BA PMR Pro II in 25 Creedmoor, which is an ARC Coup de Grace action in their BA chassis with a Bix n' Andy trigger, for $2600. Really hard to beat that deal.

 

[Jerry M]

Isn't the 25 Creedmoor a reincarnation of the .250 Savage Ackley Improved?

 

[Steve S.]

I just finished reading a very interesting article singing the praises of this cartridge called the “30-30”. I think this thing may have some potential!

 

[25-20 WCF]

...There are over a million new American gun-owners born every. single. day...

That would mean that the US population would double every. single. year. SMH.

I've been shooting .257" bullets for over 45 years out of a variety of rifles and handguns. The last was my second .257 Weatherby over 20 years ago, but when I buy a new rifle it will most likely be in the .25 Creedmoor - if it catches on. New cartridges sell new rifles, and without new rifles/cartridges the firearms industry as we know it wouldn't exist. Once everybody has a 6.5 Creed they'd stop buying.


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[horsey300]

That would mean that the US population would double every. single. year. SMH.

Just thinking......the math maths better if the word "born" isn't applied to humans being born but rather to the sense that "new gun" owners are born, based possibly on the roughly 1.4 million guns that were purchased every month last year according to the interwebs?

 

[kmw1954]

My Long Range friend was talking the other day about some one of these cartridges, I forget which, was just plain easy to get hits with. Would one help me? I doubt it.

I started shooting a short range rifle league 4 years ago. Started with a used factory stock Savage Model 10 in 223. I shot a 223 for 3 seasons learning a great deal about the sport, the gun, the caliber, reloading.. Was a great experience to build on. The more I shot the more I liked it them more I wanted to do more. For all those seasons I would finish in the middle of the pack and my friends would always tell me I needed to move up to a better caliber, better rifle. Like you I had doubts that a new rifle would make much difference. Well this year I moved to a 6ARC build in a bolt rifle and after the first 2 weeks of shooting I found myself in 6th place of 21 members. Also having much more fun.

 

[Varminterror]

That would mean that the US population would double every. single. year. SMH.

I mis-typed this originally:

There are over 3,000 new gun owners born in America every. single. day. That’s over a million new owners per year.

A few more fun stats: For the last ~5 years, Americans have bought over 1 million firearms per month. Two years ago already, Ruger reported that they had sold over a million RPR’s (in 8 years, at that point).

There is a gushing pipeline of firearms being produced, and a long line of buyers standing in line to buy them, with more being born every. single. day. There will never not be someone looking for something new.

 

[jmr40]

I have a solution. Let's ban all cartridges in odd numbered calibers 30 caliber and under. We'd have 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, and 30 calibers to work with. Use any case you like, but it has to be an even numbered caliber. To keep things fair everything larger than 30 caliber has to be an odd number. We could have 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 45 caliber cartridges.

Before I start getting hate mail, in case you haven't figured it out that was meant to be tongue-in-cheek and not serious.

But if you think about it that's basically where we already are. 30 caliber and below almost all of the popular cartridges are in even numbers. There are a few 25 and 27 caliber cartridges, but they've never seen anywhere near the popularity of the even numbered cartridges that bracket them. And you'd be splitting some pretty fine hairs to argue they offer any real advantage over comparable 24, 26, or 28 caliber cartridges. It's just a lot easier to find loaded ammo and reloading components for the 24's, 26's and 28's that do the same thing as the 25's and 27's.

Above 30 caliber almost all of the popular cartridges already end in odd numbers. We have 33's, 35, 37's, 41's and 45's. For whatever reason none of the even numbered cartridges have ever really been popular. At least in this country.

None of this was by design, it just worked out that way.