Sure turned into a Swede vs Creedmoor thread lol. A compliment to the Creedmoor for sure, the Swede is and always has been an over achiever.
Swede has the legendary reputation from doing so well for so long, even on things most would never consider shooting. Cool Factor nod goes to the Swede.
Swede needs reloading and modern bolt action rifles to make it sing to modern potential and then it can slightly out horsepower the Creedmoor. If considering original spec and design the Creedmoor kills the Swede.
Creedmoor does it with short action, Swede needs a long action. A testament to the Creedmoor again for nearly duplicating the swede's 'modern' performance in a short action.
I'll say it again, the 6.5 Creedmoor is the modern Swede, it will go on to become far more popular than the Swede ever was or will be. There are reasons for that.
As Chuck touched on about the Creedmoor fixing the .260 rem issues by designing it in from the beginning. The Creedmoor also fixes the shortcomings of the Swede. It's like the Creedmoor took them and blended them together. The Creedmoor's versatility doesn't end there. It takes on a gold standard like the .308 which is loved for a huge variety of reasons and applies the same modern fixes and now it does everything the .308 does and then whoops it's ass by excelling in a few more areas that are important to shooters/hunters/military now. So it's like all three of those cartridges were just replaced in one fell swoop by the Creedmoor.
Really the 6.5 CM could be called the 6.5 Universal, the 6.5 SweNatoRem, the 6.5 Oracle, the 6.5 OneAndOnly, the 6.5 Deity, the 6.5 ShizzleForYourNizzle.
Anyone want to get back to the 6.5 article and make some lists? lol