Thread: Redundant Calibres

Originally Posted by T.FOYE

Just want to say that the 6.5cm is a more inherantly accurate case. I dont own one but as a swede owner I've found I needed to go to the enth degree to beat them. So i don't think it's correct to say that the creedmoor is the same, it's not as it's more efficient. Produces similar pressures with less powder.

That's fair comment - but I wonder how many who brought into it can actually shoot that well.

I did get interested in black powder target shooting for a bit, got the action and went down to talk about Badger barrels down the range when I got roped into spotting shot fall at the three hundred yard range, and even with binoculars couldn't see what those guys could with the naked eye.
That ended up 'stillborn' ... realised right then and there I could never be competitive.

I'm a hunter first and foremost and that's why I got a gun - and my hunting is close, thirty metres or less for the most part. And that's the way I like it - I've done the 'farm hunt' where shots were out around 400 yards and I never fired a shot - I wasn't set up for it.
Thought about it and decided it was all a bit foreign for me. I certainly found it fascinating, all those deer to pick and choose from - but I decided I liked it the way I'd been doing it and if my gun (me) could hit a saucer at fifty yards, then that's all i needed.
I have 'return to zero' rings on my two main guns now and often hunt with the scope in my pack as it's more comfortable to handle a bare gun - and I shoot a lot down the range with 'irons' - wouldn't have a gun without them - and I don't.

But were I interested in long range shooting - more 'inherantly accurate' certainly has merit and helps take an 'unknown' out of the equation