Gary Reeder
our Elk Foundation dinner is this weekend and we handle all
Wednesday, August 11, 2021, 15:41

the gun stuff for them. Colleen is going to be in Maryland for the big JRTCA meeting of all the big wigs. So Noodle (you remember him) and I will be doing the gun stuff at the dinner. We got several large boxes of rifles in over the past couple of weeks as raffles and give aways at the dinner. And guess what the calibers are. Nope, no 7 mag or 300 mag, or 30-06 or 338 mag or any other decent elk cartridge. The 2 large boxes we got today (around 12 long guns) were either 6.5 Creedmoor or 6.5 PRC. The Elk Foundation must have got all the left overs from the distributors as the 6.5 cartridges and guns are dead in the water right now. They have run their course and just plain don't sell. Plus every fall we get the 25 to 30 year olds in our shop talking about shooting a bull elk at 700 yards and the elk just walking away. Then they don't follow up to see if they wounded the elk. They just go looking for another one. These wannabe snipers are the ones causing a lot of us to hate the 6.5 Creedmoor. Now that I have pissed off the 6.5 Creedmoor lovers out there, remember this is my opinion only and should not be construed as that of a sane man.

The 6.5 PRC is still getting a few folks in for ammo but very few, mainly because the ammo for it is extremely hard to find. We got one case of it a month or so ago but nothing since. Plus the 6.5 cartridges (except for the 6.5 Remington Mag and the 264 Win Mag) are not bull elk cartridges. It is going to be hard telling the folks that win or bid on one of these rifles " Congratulations, you got a great rifle" and under my breath "just as long as you don't use it on a bull elk".
I hate doing these dinners and normally Colleen handles them. But I will smile and try to keep my opinions to myself and my big mouth shut Saturday night and let the 6.5 lovers have a great night.