Before You Mock the 6.5 Creedmoor, Learn What “Creedmoor” Means
The 6.5 Creedmoor has been around for 19 years, and apparently that still hasn’t been enough time for some gun enthusiasts to learn what the word Creedmoor actually means.
Before you utter “6.5 Man Bun” again, try Google.
Creedmoor was the legendary Long Island rifle range where America faced Ireland in the great 1874 international long-range rifle match, firing at 800, 900 and 1,000 yards. More than a century later, Dennis DeMille—a Marine competitive shooter and High Power champion—suggested Creedmoor as the name for Hornady’s new long-range match cartridge specifically to honor that American competitive-shooting heritage. Hornady introduced it in 2007 as a target/match cartridge.
So after 19 years, if your entire knowledge of the 6.5 Creedmoor still consists of “LOL, man bun!”, the problem probably isn’t the cartridge.
Learn some American rifle history. Then hit the range. The broad side of that barn isn’t going to shoot itself.