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6.5 Creedmoor for moose
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<blockquote data-quote="Starlite" data-source="post: 1788105" data-attributes="member: 112246"><p>I agree with 99% of what you've stated. However,</p><p>I once shot a 50 cal; I had lots of adrenaline flowing. I can't even remember the recoil. Totally different story shooting it at the range. Recoil isn't a factor EVER when your defending yourself or dropping your trophy animal. Accurate shooting is ALWAYS important; you can't kill what you can't hit. I'm not a fan of the commentary WRT SHOULD YOU. However, This can be debated til the cows come home (another time maybe). I'll finish by saying; always be thinking of how you would want it. For me it's within nanoseconds and painlessly. That's how it should be done....... so if you can accomplish this with a 6.5CM then I say give er. I'd say the 160gr pill (round nose) by Hornady with superformance powder and a magnum primer will perform great when placed into the head/neck or boiler room. As others have stated if your hunting in an environment where very large bears are lurking and where perhaps your now the prey...well that's different. Maybe a benelli semiautomatic 300 winmag is best. I don't know. To me a hand gun might be better suited for the bears as you can actually keep your eye on that fella. Again I don't know as I've never been faced with that situation. Maybe I'd just follow the advice of the locals. (The ones that actually do it). FWIW my minimum would be 7mm mag in Alaska but the handgun would be a the Ruger GP100 (357 mag). It's accurate!! It allows quick accurate follow up shots. It has great penetration too. </p><p>Anyway. That's my 2c</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Starlite, post: 1788105, member: 112246"] I agree with 99% of what you’ve stated. However, I once shot a 50 cal; I had lots of adrenaline flowing. I can’t even remember the recoil. Totally different story shooting it at the range. Recoil isn’t a factor EVER when your defending yourself or dropping your trophy animal. Accurate shooting is ALWAYS important; you can’t kill what you can’t hit. I’m not a fan of the commentary WRT SHOULD YOU. However, This can be debated til the cows come home (another time maybe). I’ll finish by saying; always be thinking of how you would want it. For me it’s within nanoseconds and painlessly. That’s how it should be done....... so if you can accomplish this with a 6.5CM then I say give er. I’d say the 160gr pill (round nose) by Hornady with superformance powder and a magnum primer will perform great when placed into the head/neck or boiler room. As others have stated if your hunting in an environment where very large bears are lurking and where perhaps your now the prey...well that’s different. Maybe a benelli semiautomatic 300 winmag is best. I don’t know. To me a hand gun might be better suited for the bears as you can actually keep your eye on that fella. Again I don’t know as I’ve never been faced with that situation. Maybe I’d just follow the advice of the locals. (The ones that actually do it). FWIW my minimum would be 7mm mag in Alaska but the handgun would be a the Ruger GP100 (357 mag). It’s accurate!! It allows quick accurate follow up shots. It has great penetration too. Anyway. That’s my 2c [/QUOTE]
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