Handloaders, however, being able to load exactly what they want have thus discovered that a lot of the claims comparing various calibers are often untrue in their experience. As it pertains to .308 vs. .30-06, the latter had been a staple for decades and never needed replacing in the hunting world, so opinions were skewed in my opinion to show favor to the .308 for many years. Now we’re seeing similar bias starting to emerge favoring 6.5 Creedmoor in hunting situations after the .308 market became saturated for some time. For example, the Canadian Arctic Rangers adopted a Tikka chambered in .308 for polar bear protection back in 2014 (https://www.guns.com/news/2015/06/26/canadian-arctic-rangers-get-new-rifle-for-polar-bear-defense). Years later, Tikka only offers one other caliber for this purpose— the 6.5 Creedmoor (https://choose.tikka.fi/global/tikka/t3x-arctic). Now I am the first person to admit that a .30-06, .270 and even a 308 is all you need for hunting brown bear (just check the Alaska Game and Fish website where they make the same claim: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=hunting.firearms), but the lighter 6.5 Creedmoor bullets seem like a stretch if a rifle company marketing a bolt-action rifle for polar bear work limits their offerings to only two calibers. I understand that polar bear protection is different than grizzly bear hunting, for example, where and exit wound is helpful to ensure a blood trail, but it still seems a little odd to me that the 6.5 Creedmoor should appear as one of only two calibers meant for this use. Anyway, that’s just my opinion.

Since you are calling Mr. German’s work into contest, I suggest it is upon you to produce the statistics that bear out your objections! I don’t see any data from you here. Don’t get me wrong, I welcome your data and will treat you with as much respect as I think you owe Mr. German. I simply will not see others disrespected because someone thinks their results are cooked, without proof!

Lets see a test where the same number of rounds are fired from each at these ranges, by more than one shooter.