Not grendel looking for some advice

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This is probably the round the Valkryie was supposed to be. Hornady does such a good job with all their cartridge introductions. Has there been one flop in the last 15 years?

Totally unsubstantiated opinion: Hornady was an early provider of 6.5 Grendel ammunition. Personally, I think the cartridge had a huge influence on Hornady. They took Bill Alexander's concepts and applied them to the .260. The 6.5 Creedmoor was the result. They did it again with the PRC family and now the ARCs.

Hornady had made an improved 300 Savage called the 30 TC, working in conjunction with Thompson Center. 30 TC provided .30-06 speeds from a .308-sized case, due to more efficient burning of the propellant mass resonated against a 30 degree shoulder. Since it was marginally-better than .308, it never caught-on due to how dominant and available .308 was in the market.



When Hornady saw Remington hesitate/drop the ball with the .260 Remington, which was gaining a lot of steam in the growing precision rifle competition circuit in the 2000s, Hornady simply necked down the 30 TC to 6.5mm, and thus was born the 6.5 Creedmoor. 6.5 Grendel had already been around since 2003 and 6.5x47 Lapua had been introduced in 2005.

Success is often built on multiple attempts and failures, and Hornady was at the right time and place with all the development they had done with 30 TC to capitalize on it finally with 6.5 Creedmoor, then marketed it exceptionally well to where it is now a staple cartridge on store shelves taking up wide swaths of the space across multiple manufacturers.