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 ...

For comparison, the average felt recoil from a 6.5 Creedmoor is around 12 foot-pounds, while the recoil from a .300 Win. Mag. is up about 27 to 29 foot-pounds. Neither the .270 Win. or the ...

30-06 Springfield, .308 Winchester or 6.5 Creedmoor with ranges from 500 to over 1,000 yards. In Minnesota, hunters rarely get a shot of more than 150 yards, and most hunters would not take a shot ...

260 Remington was the darling 6.5mm cartridge at the time. Where the .260 Remington is a necked-down .308 Winchester, the 6.5 Creedmoor is the son of the .30 T/C cartridge, and was developed by ...

lbs. of energy). In the recoil department, the 6.5 PRC does have a higher recoil level than does the 6.5 Creedmoor, but I’ve found it to be completely manageable. The .308 Winchester came to light in ...

That’s especially true in the long-running debate over the 6.5 Creedmoor vs the .308 Winchester. In the age of social media, this debate often devolves to one side calling the other Fudds, and the ...

Not long after the 6.5 Creedmoor arrived on the scene, some observers called it the “.308 Win. killer.” Things haven’t quite gone that way. The 6.5 Creedmoor has become immensely popular, and rightly ...

Because it is impossible to write enough about the 6.5 Creedmoor these days, my editors have asked me to compare it to the tried-and-true .308 Winchester, and I’ve agreed. Comparisons are not ...

For this American Rifleman TV feature, we pulled the bullet on Hornady’s 6.5 mm Creedmoor cartridge to see what’s inside and why it performs as well as it does. What began as a mission to ...