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6.5 Creedmor- the Holy Grail?
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<blockquote data-quote="fariswm" data-source="post: 1537391" data-attributes="member: 11234"><p>I shot my first deer with a .303 when I was 16. Had to be 16 to get a license in Alberta, Canada at that time. Bought the gun for $9.00 by mail. (Try to do that in Canada or the USA now) It came in the original cosmoline wrapper from WWII. I cut the stock off, broke a glass jar and used the broken glass, which was very sharp, and scraped the stock down. Sanded it well and oiled it with Linseed oil. The Finn's didn't think solid bullets were the way to go during the war so they used soft point bullets. I bought me a box of surplus Finnish Military rounds, a box of Surplus Military solids and a box of tracers. The tracers were fun to shoot at night into a large earth filled dam south of town. We could watch the arc of the bullet. Saw a lot more of that in Vietnam, but the arc was a lot flatter. Took my .303 out and practiced, with iron sights, on gophers out at Dick Kinsey's place. He came out and wasn't very happy I was shooting gophers with a .303. He called me .303 every time I saw him after that until I left home to go to school in the U. S. Shot that first deer at about 100 yards as he walked down off a ridge into a draw. I was sitting on the other side. One shot and the deer crumbled. I have no idea how heavy the bullet was or what it's sectional density was, or it's ballistic coefficient. I just knew if I could get a decent sight picture with my iron sights on that deer that it was dead.</p><p>Since then I have owned and shot game with everything from a 22-250 on up. After I got back from Vietnam I finally found myself doing my big game hunting with a 7mm Rem Mag using bullets from 139 gr to 175 gr.</p><p>I still am a huge fan of the 7mm caliber, but I own and shoot a plethora of calibers including big bores.</p><p>Each caliber and cartridge within that caliber genre has a place and purpose for which it is efficient. Stretching the limit of any of them to me is a mistake, be it weight and size of bullet, ballistics, or caliber when taking the life of one of God's creatures he has placed here on earth for our benefit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fariswm, post: 1537391, member: 11234"] I shot my first deer with a .303 when I was 16. Had to be 16 to get a license in Alberta, Canada at that time. Bought the gun for $9.00 by mail. (Try to do that in Canada or the USA now) It came in the original cosmoline wrapper from WWII. I cut the stock off, broke a glass jar and used the broken glass, which was very sharp, and scraped the stock down. Sanded it well and oiled it with Linseed oil. The Finn's didn't think solid bullets were the way to go during the war so they used soft point bullets. I bought me a box of surplus Finnish Military rounds, a box of Surplus Military solids and a box of tracers. The tracers were fun to shoot at night into a large earth filled dam south of town. We could watch the arc of the bullet. Saw a lot more of that in Vietnam, but the arc was a lot flatter. Took my .303 out and practiced, with iron sights, on gophers out at Dick Kinsey's place. He came out and wasn't very happy I was shooting gophers with a .303. He called me .303 every time I saw him after that until I left home to go to school in the U. S. Shot that first deer at about 100 yards as he walked down off a ridge into a draw. I was sitting on the other side. One shot and the deer crumbled. I have no idea how heavy the bullet was or what it's sectional density was, or it's ballistic coefficient. I just knew if I could get a decent sight picture with my iron sights on that deer that it was dead. Since then I have owned and shot game with everything from a 22-250 on up. After I got back from Vietnam I finally found myself doing my big game hunting with a 7mm Rem Mag using bullets from 139 gr to 175 gr. I still am a huge fan of the 7mm caliber, but I own and shoot a plethora of calibers including big bores. Each caliber and cartridge within that caliber genre has a place and purpose for which it is efficient. Stretching the limit of any of them to me is a mistake, be it weight and size of bullet, ballistics, or caliber when taking the life of one of God's creatures he has placed here on earth for our benefit. [/QUOTE]
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