Thread: A Rifle for Almost Everything.

Greetings All,
Recent receipt of a bit of unexpected money had dislodged me from my normal state of terminal procrastination. This morning found me at what I call Chateau Jeremy's and others call Rivers to Ranges. My mission was to have a suppressor fitted to my long serving .308. After explaining what I wanted and handing over the skeleton of my .308 the chap who served me was recording the order in the order book. I couldn't help noticing that the last 4 jobs, including mine were for .308 rifles. I remarked on this and was told that it was still really popular as it did most things well. Couldn't fault him on that. I asked what was hot at the moment? 6.5 PRC was the answer. I half expected that. I might be an old Fudd but I don't spend my evenings sitting in a cave reading 50 year old magazines by candle light. I was handed a cartridge to admire. They certainly do look racy and I can see why they are popular. Am I going to rush out and trade my T3 6.5 x 55 in on a PRC? No. Do I think that 6.5 PRC is going to cut all other cartridges down like ripe wheat? Probably not. Is it going to carve out a niche for itself over time? I hope so. It seems a very good cartridge. For me I will continue with my current cartridges, most developed last century or the century before that. That PRC did look nice though.
Regards Grandpamac.

just another way to skin a cat... (can I still say that...) the only things that change are a flatter or better wind bucking way to get there.

Rather the cat you use it to skin, will have less meat left on the skin, than if you used a 6.5x55!

Remember when everyone HAD to have a 260 or you weren't worth your salt as a hunter.. but then everyone HAD to have a 7mm Saum.. but then you had to move that on to less awesome hunters/gods of the outdoors because everone HAD to have a 6.5 Creedmore, which you then found out 2 years down the track was complete rubbish and now all the best hunters have 6.5 PRC's....



*waiting patiently for next must have caliber to come along... *

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Remember when everyone HAD to have a 260 or you weren't worth your salt as a hunter.. but then everyone HAD to have a 7mm Saum.. but then you had to move that on to less awesome hunters/gods of the outdoors because everone HAD to have a 6.5 Creedmore, which you then found out 2 years down the track was complete rubbish and now all the best hunters have 6.5 PRC's....



*waiting patiently for next must have caliber to come along... *

next thing you know the 270superloudboomer will be popular again!!

Originally Posted by mikee

next thing you know the 270superloudboomer will be popular again!!

Mickey Duck will likely tell us it always has been popular.
Grandpamac.

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Mickey Duck will likely tell us it always has been popular.
Grandpamac.

And he’d be right, at least amongst the cognoscenti!

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Remember when everyone HAD to have a 260 or you weren't worth your salt as a hunter.. but then everyone HAD to have a 7mm Saum.. but then you had to move that on to less awesome hunters/gods of the outdoors because everone HAD to have a 6.5 Creedmore, which you then found out 2 years down the track was complete rubbish and now all the best hunters have 6.5 PRC's....

think i was in that cave reading old hunting mags by candlelight mentioned in the earlier post while all that was going on........all my current and past rifle calibres pre-date that new fangled .308 thingy........

Originally Posted by scotty

think i was in that cave reading old hunting mags by candlelight mentioned in the earlier post while all that was going on........all my current and past rifle calibres pre-date that new fangled .308 thingy........

Greetings Scotty,
Speaking of old maps, I had a call from an old friend the other day. We were both MSC bush craft and firearms instructors years ago. He had been reading some old trip reports from the 70's and early 80's that used grid references for locations. The maps in use at the time were the old NZMS 1 inch to the mile series and the NZ mapping grid has changed twice since then. He had left his older maps with me after a clean up as he knew I was a mapophile (not a real word but means a lover of maps) and I rounded up the ones he wanted and sent them of. I am sure that he will be reading them in a comfy chair with modern lighting and a cup of tea handy rather than a candle lit cave. This made me wonder if the current electronic enabled generation even knows what a grid reference is, let alone how to use one.
As far as the .308 goes it was obsolete as an infantry weapon even when introduced but Winchester spotted that it was a .30-06 (or .303) in a handier package and I for one am happy that they did. It is only due to bone pigheadedness in the US military that it was ever developed in the first place.
Regards Grandpamac.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Remember when everyone HAD to have a 260 or you weren't worth your salt as a hunter.. but then everyone HAD to have a 7mm Saum.. but then you had to move that on to less awesome hunters/gods of the outdoors because everone HAD to have a 6.5 Creedmore, which you then found out 2 years down the track was complete rubbish and now all the best hunters have 6.5 PRC's....



*waiting patiently for next must have caliber to come along... *

....obviously I’m not worth any salt then...,or trendy.... I use fit for purpose.


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I was discussing it the other day with forum member@PERRISCICABA whlist looking at rifles on the LGS rack.

He remarked that it (6.5 PRS) was at its best in the actions that handle all cartridge lengths (as opposed to short 308 class actions) and after consideration I'd have to agree with this, for the likes of a Tikka T3 or Sauer 100/Mauser M18 its going to be great.

The thing is that if a manufacturer are wanting to sell a 6.5 with a fast enough twist to launch the new heavies, then its easier to "sell" with a new cartridge rather than just changing up the dear old 6.5x55 - firearms are a "fashion industry"!!

Originally Posted by Tentman

firearms are a "fashion industry"!!

Sad but true #Gun Snob

You can't re-invent the wheel, but you can tinker with the motor driving it I guess.
Each to their own.

I will stick with my 308. It does everything I need it to do well.

Originally Posted by Allizdog

You can't re-invent the wheel, but you can tinker with the motor driving it I guess.
Each to their own.

I will stick with my 308. It does everything I need it to do well.

Likewise, nothing wrong with a lot of calibers but my 308 has always done the job for me, nothing I shot ever did anything but conveniently fall over dead.

No, you need to go to a 338 or bigger diametre pill that is slow, heavy and can be easily run subsonic for the coming post election law changes that ban loud noises during the birds nesting season