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6.5 Creedmoor for moose
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<blockquote data-quote="Mk308" data-source="post: 1794100" data-attributes="member: 112250"><p>I have had great results with the ttsx and scirocco on deer in 223. Use a good bullet and it works ok, use a great bullet and it works great. Crummy bullets or varmint bullets work poor. </p><p></p><p>My 11 yo son shot an 800lb elk this year with his 6.5 and 127lrx bullets. Roughly 120 yds and it was down in 40. Straight thru the shoulders and im pretty sure the bullet is still flying as we speak. Massive damage. That said a friend a few weeks earlier shot a 520lb red stag with the 143 hornady's. Bullet came apart. No damage on offside ribs. A sliver of jacket or lead luckily went thru the heart and made a small hole but enough to put it down in less than 100 yards. Once again, dont use a crummy fragile hunting bullet to determine a caliber's appropriateness on game based on a crummy bullet vs a good one. </p><p></p><p></p><p>The best example of this i can give is guiding at my friend's ranch and having my daughter handily kill an oryx with a 243 using ttsx bullets. Full penetration and massive damage. The oryx went less than 20 yards. Had a hunter the next week shoot a 375 h/h cup and core style 270 grain bullet into an oryx that came apart on the shoulder. Minimal damage and we tracked it all day to finish it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mk308, post: 1794100, member: 112250"] I have had great results with the ttsx and scirocco on deer in 223. Use a good bullet and it works ok, use a great bullet and it works great. Crummy bullets or varmint bullets work poor. My 11 yo son shot an 800lb elk this year with his 6.5 and 127lrx bullets. Roughly 120 yds and it was down in 40. Straight thru the shoulders and im pretty sure the bullet is still flying as we speak. Massive damage. That said a friend a few weeks earlier shot a 520lb red stag with the 143 hornady’s. Bullet came apart. No damage on offside ribs. A sliver of jacket or lead luckily went thru the heart and made a small hole but enough to put it down in less than 100 yards. Once again, dont use a crummy fragile hunting bullet to determine a caliber’s appropriateness on game based on a crummy bullet vs a good one. The best example of this i can give is guiding at my friend’s ranch and having my daughter handily kill an oryx with a 243 using ttsx bullets. Full penetration and massive damage. The oryx went less than 20 yards. Had a hunter the next week shoot a 375 h/h cup and core style 270 grain bullet into an oryx that came apart on the shoulder. Minimal damage and we tracked it all day to finish it. [/QUOTE]
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