.224 Valkerie conundrum

[jaholder]

Roger that, thanks.

I'm watching this closely. I'm not yet convinced that the Valk is going to perform beyond the marketing hype. Of course I'm the guy who took one look at the 6.5 Creed and remembered it as the .260 Bobcat round that Jim Carmichael touted to an unimpressed shooting community a quarter century ago.

[Pappabear]

Im so slow to adapt new calibers but I fell for the 6.5 and I am not disappointed, but its going to take some crazy developments to get me on board with the Valk, but good for this who champion the new calibers or we would all be shooting 30-06.

PB

[jaholder]

Im so slow to adapt new calibers but I fell for the 6.5 and I am not disappointed, but its going to take some crazy developments to get me on board with the Valk, but good for this who champion the new calibers or we would all be shooting 30-06.

PB

Gotcha! I agree.

Developing new calibers? Good.
Hyped marketing of new calibers before all the development's done? Not so much...

[markm]

Roger that, thanks.

I'm watching this closely. I'm not yet convinced that the Valk is going to perform beyond the marketing hype. Of course I'm the guy who took one look at the 6.5 Creed and remembered it as the .260 Bobcat round that Jim Carmichael touted to an unimpressed shooting community a quarter century ago.

We took the gun back out the weekend before last, and the barrel shot better using some 75 grain bullets if I remember correctly. The guy is going to get some more heavier stuff and bring it out again.

As far as the 500 yard fiasco... there was a scope/user issue going on there.