“No need to hold over out to 500 with this thing!”
I found that on social media from a longtime gun writer, who should know better. He was talking about the 6.5 Creedmoor. So I responded with something a friend of mine uses to mock the uninformed foolishly bragging about their guns.
“She don’t drop a bit out to 500 yards and after that she raises just a mite.”
“Sounds about right,” was his response.
So it goes with this cartridge. The 6.5 Creedmoor is the most successful rifle cartridge in history and the most misunderstood. Even at my own gun club I recently heard a guy saying we can’t
