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If everything goes right, your 6.5 CM will kill an elk, but the same thing can be said for the .460 Weatherby.
I've killed elk and seen elk killed with smaller cartridges. I will continue to use my .300 Weatherby or 7 mm RM for my elk. If everything goes right, your 6.5 CM will kill an elk, but the same thing can be said for the .460 Weatherby.
I've killed elk and seen elk killed with smaller cartridges. I will continue to use my .300 Weatherby or 7 mm RM for my elk. I have also used lesser rounds on elk, under ideal conditions. Nowadays, as I get older, and opportunities become fewer for me, my .300 Wby. will get the nod. Elk shot well with the big .300 eliminate tracking jobs. Elk shot well with 6.5mm Creedmoor don't require any more tracking. Just Sayin and guess which round is easier to shoot well. 
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If everything goes right, your 6.5 CM will kill an elk, but the same thing can be said for the .460 Weatherby.
I've killed elk and seen elk killed with smaller cartridges. I will continue to use my .300 Weatherby or 7 mm RM for my elk. If everything goes right, your 6.5 CM will kill an elk, but the same thing can be said for the .460 Weatherby.
I've killed elk and seen elk killed with smaller cartridges. I will continue to use my .300 Weatherby or 7 mm RM for my elk. I have also used lesser rounds on elk, under ideal conditions. Nowadays, as I get older, and opportunities become fewer for me, my .300 Wby. will get the nod. Elk shot well with the big .300 eliminate tracking jobs. Elk shot well with 6.5mm Creedmoor don't require any more tracking. Just Sayin and guess which round is easier to shoot well. John, What is ur preferred elk bullet and how has it performed? Pass throughs? Thanks Roy
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14B in the talkeetnas or 20A? If that's is a 14B caribou dandy bull for sure.. if it's a20A bull great job getting a good bull, those damn things think they are sheep half the time.. [/quote]
Yes 14B - sure was a lot of searching in all those square miles to find the critters. I am happy as a beginner. Hope to go back again someday - if the "draw odds" work for me. The meat is tender and mild too!
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Good shooting goes a long ways. I really like my 6.5CM but it's not a mag pushing a big, heavy bullet. Know you gun and shoot well and success will be yours. Seen many elk that were taken with the 260 and 7-08 and see no reason why the 6.5 would not work as well.
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Back to the marketing aspect for a moment. If you buy gun magazines you know there is going to be a high level of marketing to push products. If you are open to something new, it won't take a lot of convincing for the "pitch" to work. But if you start from a position of skepticism, the sales pitch is going to work a lot harder to get you to buy.
A lot of us are gun loonies of various intensities. So we are more inclined to try something new in our area of interest. And within our "group", there are subsets of some more willing to buy than others. Some are spontaneous while others are more calculating. The Classifieds bear this out with the number of gadgets and gear that is posted daily.
How many times do you read someone saying "going in another direction", or "clearing out the safe", "bought it here but never shot it". These are who marketers need to sell inventory. It is all good and the bedrock of capitalism.
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You will find the 6.5 Creedmoor Happy Hunting Grounds at the end of the Yellow Brick Road. You will find Unicorns & Magic Dragons aplenty. Your magic rifle will kill them with ease as you bask in the rainbow glow emitted from the bullet flight path. They may simply drop dead by just pointing the gun in their direction.
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John, What is ur preferred elk bullet and how has it performed? Pass throughs?
Thanks Roy
Berger 130gr VLD and 130gr AR Hybrid. Pass through on ribs and usually if just one shoulder is hit. Both shoulders typically stop them.
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Some broke dicks could not even pack out the meat you will bone of a bull's neck, must less both of the back straps. The same broke dicks will probably bring a leatherman on their belt to help butcher what they shoot! Hind quarters are 200 lbs plus. Where did you read that rear quarters are 200# each? ive had a couple feel that way when I got back to the pickup
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Here's what Finn Aagaard had to say about the penetration of the 6.5x55 vs the 30-06 in his excellent Hunting Rifles & Cartridges.In the test, the 140's from the 6.5x55 were loaded at 2,700 fps. Right where the 6.5 Creedmoor lives. Finn doesn't list the 30-06/180 speed, but based on his extensive writing about that round, I think it's safe to assume 2,750 fps +/- ![[Linked Image]](https://i.postimg.cc/vZdSW8tN/finn-on-6-5-penetration.jpg) What's amazing about that article is, a gunwriter actually admitted they were wrong. Excluding our own JB, most today do not.
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Jeff killed a very nice 5x5 with the 7 Mag....the Creedmoor stayed home!!
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Jeff killed a very nice 5x5 with the 7 Mag....the Creedmoor stayed home!! Ha!!
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where are the pics and story?
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where are the pics and story? Don't know how the hell to post pictures on here anymore since the photobucket deal!!!
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Upload from you Pictures to Images. Clickk on an image and it'll enlarge. You are given several options to copy and paste. Select the next to last one for this forum.
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Here's what Finn Aagaard had to say about the penetration of the 6.5x55 vs the 30-06 in his excellent Hunting Rifles & Cartridges.In the test, the 140's from the 6.5x55 were loaded at 2,700 fps. Right where the 6.5 Creedmoor lives. Finn doesn't list the 30-06/180 speed, but based on his extensive writing about that round, I think it's safe to assume 2,750 fps +/- What's amazing about that article is, a gunwriter actually admitted they were wrong. Excluding our own JB, most today do not. And that is one of the many reasons I miss Finn Aagards writings so much. He told it how he saw it and didn't try to put a spin on it or try to pretty it up too much. He was a great hunter and writer. Les
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I was going to post a couple of photos from my recent cow hunt. But photobucket won't work tonite. Just reporting that I put the sneak on a group of elk and picked out a fat cow at 135 yards. As an aside I have to say snow camo and crab crawling got me nice and close. Anyway, I nestled into the side of a sagebrush plant and line up for a double lung angle.
At the shot, she dropped, slowly rolled over and slide down the hill until some brush caught her. No bullet recovery unfortunately and I slid her down the hill about 300 yards further to the awaiting truck. Shortest elk hunt at less than an hour. Makes up for the long hunts.
**I should also report that the magazine release on the Tikka T3x froze and I couldn't release the mag to remove the rounds. I am sure that happened in the "sneaking phase" of the stalk as the snow depth was well over a foot. So just be aware of that possibility. I removed the rounds with the bolt instead. **
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Was she 'nice' ? If she wasn't, you are the first guy ever, to not pick a "nice, fat cow". I always wondered how guys could tell how nice one is, and if they could also tell how to avoid the bitchy ones......
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Was she 'nice' ? If she wasn't, you are the first guy ever, to not pick a "nice, fat cow". I always wondered how guys could tell how nice one is, and if they could also tell how to avoid the bitchy ones...... I look at how they react when their boyfriend get’s shot...The cows that stand around looking at him, I consider nice. The ones that run away quickly are obviously the bitches. 😁😎
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Was she 'nice' ? If she wasn't, you are the first guy ever, to not pick a "nice, fat cow". I always wondered how guys could tell how nice one is, and if they could also tell how to avoid the bitchy ones...... I look at how they react when their boyfriend get’s shot...The cows that stand around looking at him, I consider nice. The ones that run away quickly are obviously the bitches. 😁😎 LMFAO
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