If someone only shoots enough to check zero and miss a deer or two, not much matters, except what they refuse to shoot.

In the case of non-shooters? Recoil, flinches, high prices, bigger cases, harder to find, huge muzzle blasts, and what Bubba thinks is cool, are all far more important than recognizing efficienc and economy of design, or contemplating anything remotely considered ‘practice’, much less training.

Some folks are koolaide drinkers on the 6.5s, as a whole or the creed, for sure.

Some folks are so self conscious about someone knowing they might secretly own a creedmoor, that they’re looney, creedophobic.

Others of us don’t really care too much about head stamps, so long as bullees do what we need and how we need it done....and the easier/cheaper/more accurate/more efficient/lighter recoiling they are, the better.....cuz we put hundreds or thousands of rounds through our ‘hunting rifles’ every year, on targets AND game.

The creedmoor does EXACTLY what it was designed to do....maybe better than any commercial cartridge, ever. It expands into other uses fairly well, but it ain’t perfect. Nobody is trying to say it’s even close.....just that it’s worth shooting.