Go crap on someone else's thread. Good grief. I bought what I wanted, and will enjoy it. And I hope someone else enjoys my journey.
Well for me personally...I never meant to crap on anyone's thread. But why not just leave it as..."I bought what I wanted, and will enjoy it", like you just stated? I'm good with that. Heck, I do the same thing and you know it.
With the 6.5CM, it's always....but, but, but. It's short action, I can find ammo, it's this, it's that. Now with this one....oh, it's not as fast as a 25/06, but it shoots heavier bullets. Well...a Swede shoots heavier bullets than a CM!! But it's not short action! So, neither is that Tikka!! Well I can find ammo for the 6.5CM, try to find it for the Swede!! Hey, try to find it for that 25CM!! Every argument you had FOR the 6.5 is now working against the 25CM. Guess what else...the 25wssm has a longer neck than that CM. It's short action. It also has that "short fat" powder column fad going for it. Where is it now? Oh yeah...I remember. The 25/06 is faster....Im all about speed. Speed kills!! Remember any of that?
And another thing...you intentionally shot light bullets in it... because speed kills!! Well guess what? The 243 win is faster than the ARC. I know...now we're onto heavies. Guess speed no longer kills?
I personally don't give a yugo what you shoot...or why, but you have gone in a complete circle on this....the very thing you blasted me about, and threw our friendship away over, you are now defending. If you can't see that, then whatever. Absolutely none of it has any bearing on deer hunting in this state for 99.9 percent of hunters anyway.
If your argument is that either is a better bench gun, fine...whatever. But you won't find many 20" barreled, lightweight, bench guns out there, so....
Good luck with your project.... seriously. But stay off my ass when I don't drink the Hornady Kool aid!!