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The 120 year old 6.5x55 at modern pressures pounds the 6.5 Creedmore into the ground like a tent peg. For a hunting rifle the 6.5 Creedmore is an inexplicable choice. LOL. the 6.5 is a cute, little stylish newcomer that although very efficient and excellent for those who love to "ring steel" at long ranges and great for deer, etc, I'd hardly call it an "elk cartridge", much less "ideal". Your opinion is duly noted but these elk might not agree.
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I have all the sources. They can't stop the signal.
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Very nice kills, but I'm sure someone can post equally impressive elk pics taken with a 243, 250 Savage, 3030, etc. Still not an elk (kudu, sable, zebra....etc)cartridge... In *my* opinion with an "impressive" one elk to my name...
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Very nice kills, but I'm sure someone can post equally impressive elk pics taken with a 243, 250 Savage, 3030, etc. Still not an elk (kudu, sable, zebra....etc)cartridge... In *my* opinion with an "impressive" one elk to my name... Your stalwart ability to ignore real world results and cling to past bias is noteworthy. I shall post another 6.5MM Cm elk in your honor.
John Burns
I have all the sources. They can't stop the signal.
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"A person that carries a cat home by the tail will receive information that will always be useful to him." Mark Twain
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I'm with Jorgel,
Couldn't count the cows I've seen hit the dirt to a 22lr. Some weighing over a ton. Darn certain it would work as well on cape buffalo, But I'm not gonna be the tester.
These threads are funny. Anyone with a brain knows that this is opinion, based on individual prejudices and experiences. Not something that can be proven in any definitive way.
But I do "know" that i like a margin above "enough".
That said, I wouldn't let my Sweede be the reason to stay home, if it was the only rifle I had to hunt elk.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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Those black guns sure are popular with elk hunters it seems.
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I'm building a large frame AR in 6.5 Hipster cause I wanna play with the round. I don't consider it the be-all end-all of rifle calibers though. That's the 6.5 Grendel, as it kills elk and moose at stupid ranges with minimal recoil, and it's cheap to load too.
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Very nice kills, but I'm sure someone can post equally impressive elk pics taken with a 243, 250 Savage, 3030, etc. Still not an elk (kudu, sable, zebra....etc)cartridge... In *my* opinion with an "impressive" one elk to my name... Your stalwart ability to ignore real world results and cling to past bias is noteworthy. I shall post another 6.5MM Cm elk in your honor. I think it's more of one's ability to read and grasp what someone else is saying as the locus of the issue. Nobody and certainly not me, has uttered the word "inadequate". From another thread posted by someone who I know can go toe-to-toe with numbers of elk, African game, you name it with anybody else on this forum: I believe the old saying went something like "Beware the man with one gun, etc". In the past 30 some years I've done the bulk of my hunting with a 300mag. Prior to that I tried about everything from the 243 clear thru the 375 H&H to hunt deer, elk, antelope and varmints.When I finally got around to getting a 300 Win mag things changed, it shot great and didn't belt me into tomorrow, and boy did it put things on the ground right now! About this time I started hunting a lot, and that 300 came along on virtually every trip. Killed my share of most everything on license and never once had a 300 in my hands and wished for something different. For me, it's proven to be the single best cartridge I've ever used and one I have the utmost confidence in. I never had to try it but my old buddy Allen Day even shot 2 cape buffalo with his 300 after his 458 developed problems while on safari. I used larger calibers on dangerous game where mandated by law or the stern advice from the outfitter but except for those species I've killed virtually everything with the 300s. Many deer, elk and antelope have fallen to smaller calibers as well, in particular the 270, but when the chips are down or the big money has been spent on a far away hunt, there's no question which rifle I'll reach for. I don't care if others want to shoot 30/06s or 270s or any other cartridge, they all work in the right hands. I just never bonded with any of them like I did with the 300.
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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6.5 Creedmoor: ("The Millenial Caliber") The one caliber that can do anything you want and never experience hurt on your shoulders.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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6.5 Creedmoor: ("The Millenial Caliber") The one caliber that can do anything you want and never experience hurt on your shoulders. Yeah, disabled people are obviously less manly than you. Retard.
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6.5 Creedmoor: ("The Millenial Caliber") The one caliber that can do anything you want and never experience hurt on your shoulders. I have no dog in this fight, but had to chuckle at that. Thanks for a Friday afternoon laugh.
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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shrapnel,
How many times a day,do you think about me? Not on a Special Day,just on the average?
HINT.
Bless your heart.
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