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6.8 Western vs 6.5 Creedmoor: Is 6.5 going obsolete?

Is the 6.5 Creedmoor to be eliminated or is the 6.8 Western but the new tool to a smaller job? These two cartridges may ...
Hornady introduced the 6.5 Creedmoor in 2007, and few people cared. The masses of shooters and hunters weren’t interested in a short-action cartridge with similar ballistics to the century-old 6.5×55 ...
Cartridge debates are a time-honored tradition. Given half a chance, proponents and opponents of a particular cartridge will happily deconstruct things to the sub-atomic level to prove their argument, ...
There’s something about the 6.5 Creedmoor that brings out the worst in people. On both sides of the coin, there are people who are so emotionally attached to their beliefs about this cartridge that it ...
A reader submitted a question to our weekly On The Gun newsletter (which you can sign up for here) about how to cope with recoil and cartridge selection. He described how he’s become recoil shy when ...
Every shooter or hunter who’s paying for factory ammo has, at one point, paused to eyeball a reloading kit on their way to the cash register. Perhaps that is the answer to all your ammunition woes. It ...
The 243 Winchester was an immediate sensation. Winchester introduced it in 1955 at about the same time Remington introduced their 244 Remington. The 244 held more gunpowder and had a slight velocity ...