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    some guys get married to a woman and stick together for life...... not a lot different really,its often the devil you know that is best .[/QUOTE]

    I agree and I think in a lot of cases there are the big three in NZ that do most of the game taking , 270 , 7.08 , 308. My local H&F shop said those are the big three sellers weather new or used.
    I don't see the gun industry producing anything revolutionary in 40 plus over years, it's just marketing old products that have been tweaked and supposedly improved. You can spend a lot of time and money believing the hype and marketing only to achieve the same result as you basically got with the old faithful.
    The old calibers like 270 , 30-06, 6.5 swede , 7 mm mauser kill as well today as they did 100 yrs ago.
    From the gun industries point of view I guess it's about the next best thing and the bottom line is it's all about the bottom line. The Creedmore is a classic case, just a 6.5 swede with a tit job and lippie.....really nothing new. Improved ??

    As for 270 owners..................
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    I agree and I think in a lot of cases there are the big three in NZ that do most of the game taking , 270 , 7.08 , 308. My local H&F shop said those are the big three sellers weather new or used.
    I don't see the gun industry producing anything revolutionary in 40 plus over years, it's just marketing old products that have been tweaked and supposedly improved. You can spend a lot of time and money believing the hype and marketing only to achieve the same result as you basically got with the old faithful.
    The old calibers like 270 , 30-06, 6.5 swede , 7 mm mauser kill as well today as they did 100 yrs ago.
    From the gun industries point of view I guess it's about the next best thing and the bottom line is it's all about the bottom line. The Creedmore is a classic case, just a 6.5 swede with a tit job and lippie.....really nothing new. Improved ??

    As for 270 owners..................
    6.5 Creedmoor was specifically developed for precision shooting and has been around since 2007. It was designed to get the best possible case life, accuracy and ballistic efficiency out of a .308 sized action. A hunting cartridge was never at the forefront of it's creation, it just works really well as one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by viper View Post
    ....The Creedmore is a classic case, just a 6.5 swede with a tit job and lippie.....really nothing new. Improved?? ..................
    Well, the CM is improved in that it provides the masses with well priced factory ammo, longer bullet seating for reloaders than the .260 and relatively inexpensive rifles that shoot very accurately.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 10-Ring View Post
    Well, the CM is improved in that it provides the masses with well priced factory ammo, longer bullet seating for reloaders than the .260 and relatively inexpensive rifles that shoot very accurately.
    Yeah thats the thing the creedmore has managed to do that neither the swede nor the 260 has, and that is capture the attention of the greater american public. Having a efficient short action 6.5 with actual decent factory ammo options is a legitimate good thing I reckon.

    In 10 years time the old heads will be talking about how there's nothing wrong with the 6.5 cm and why are people bothering to invent new calibers like the 277 hayabusa turbo.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick-D View Post
    Yeah thats the thing the creedmore has managed to do that neither the swede nor the 260 has, and that is capture the attention of the greater american public
    Capturing the attention of the greater american public isn't a great endorsement ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shamus View Post
    Capturing the attention of the greater american public isn't a great endorsement ...
    Perhaps not, but it does mean we get a variety of easily accesable quality factory ammo options. This is a first for any of the 6.5's. Big win for the average shooter imo.

    Anyone who has spent time behind a 260, 6.5 cm or Swede knows just how good a medium power 6.5 is, and know we have a universally adopted one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shamus View Post
    Capturing the attention of the greater american public isn't a great endorsement ...
    McDonalds did that..

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    Quote Originally Posted by 6x47 View Post
    McDonalds did that..
    So did the 270
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    Quote Originally Posted by GravelBen View Post
    So did the 270
    So did Trump
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