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Set up right you can have a target rifle capable out to 2000 yards
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Let's not oversell this thing. It isn't magical. Anyone who make statements like this has never shot a target rifle past 1,000 yds. The 143 gr ELD-X leaving the muzzle at 2,700 fps will begin trans-sonic buffeting about 1,200 yds and accuracy will be non-existent beyond 1,300 yds. Don't get me wrong, 1,300 yds is quite a shot, and the 6.5 CM a fine cartridge and all that, but it ain't magic.
The biggest problem with overselling this thing is that people will try it and find out it doesn't work. I had a friend who hunted with a 264 WinMag. I tried a 6.5-06. I talk to people all the time who tried the 6.5-284 Norma. Yes, they're great and shoot flat and are all the "be all and end all", but they aren't magical. Just take it for what it is, a fine target rifle round out to 1,000+ yds.
BTW, in order to reach 2,000 yds while remaining supersonic, the bullet would have to leave the muzzle at close to 4,000 fps. There isn't a 6.5 rifle out there that does that. Not the 264 WinMag, not the 6.5-300 Wby, not even the Lazzeroni monsters.