I am with you , woodswalker, but I do get tickled on this caliber's rant on this sight. I bought my wife a 6.5 also. She started with a 25wssm, which i still have two of. I used this caliber due to it's light recoil, short action, and very-very flat trajectory. I switched to the 6.5 when the 25 ammo dried up and the 6.5 nearly matched the 25wssm on ballistics and terminal performance, with a few more grains of weight. We have a field that is set up for 300yd shots. I didn't want to confuse her on new hold-over aimpoints with a different ballistic setup. Absolutely love the performance of the 6.5, but we still hunt with the wssm also. Heck, I even use my 243 wssm from time to time. The older I get, I actually lean towards using those guns vs 300 win mag and the 325 wsm.

My brother bought a Creed and the first time he took it hunting he pulled up in the woods in his truck and had to get out and go to the bathroom and by the time he returned there were already three dead bucks in the bed!

Because it’s not “their” caliber, that’s why, I have a few guns, rifles from.22 to .300 wsm ,my first deer rifle was a Marlin 30/30 I hunted for years with that and saved some money and bought a smith and Wesson 270 bolt action with leupold scope man I thought I was the chit , 280 for rifle and 170 for scope but I got ribbed for the caliber cause everyone was shooting 7 mags and “270” wasn’t the big knock down but served me well now my favorite gun is a 270wsm but just bought a 6.5 cm to try right now I’m still using the 270 wsm on long spots and a .444 marlin in short areas , point being shoot what you like and like what you shoot and the hell with opinions

Nothing wrong with a 6.5 anymore than any other cartridge. .243 to .300 mag will kill deer.