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How not, to use a 6.5 creedmoor
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<blockquote data-quote="MontanaRifleman" data-source="post: 1601075" data-attributes="member: 11717"><p>You can see that bull was obviously hurt pretty bad. That bullet did more than break the lower shoulder. He hunched up a little at the hit. If he had only a broken shoulder he could have covered some country in short order on three legs. My guess is that bullet or a piece of it penetrated the chest cavity and did some damage.</p><p></p><p>IMO, poor shooting and under gunned for the range. A Creedmore has less powder capacity than a 243. I have a friend, an older old school kinda of a guy with a lot of hunting experience. He has taken 4 bulls with a 243, but at much closer ranges and he knows where to put the bullet.</p><p></p><p>I would shoot a bull with a 6.5 if I didn't have anything bigger to shoot it with but I would have never attempted that shot with CM at that range. 200-300 yds max under good conditions... and he did have a perfect broadside.</p><p></p><p>What's done is done and hopefully these boys learned something... but I'm not so sure they have?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MontanaRifleman, post: 1601075, member: 11717"] You can see that bull was obviously hurt pretty bad. That bullet did more than break the lower shoulder. He hunched up a little at the hit. If he had only a broken shoulder he could have covered some country in short order on three legs. My guess is that bullet or a piece of it penetrated the chest cavity and did some damage. IMO, poor shooting and under gunned for the range. A Creedmore has less powder capacity than a 243. I have a friend, an older old school kinda of a guy with a lot of hunting experience. He has taken 4 bulls with a 243, but at much closer ranges and he knows where to put the bullet. I would shoot a bull with a 6.5 if I didn't have anything bigger to shoot it with but I would have never attempted that shot with CM at that range. 200-300 yds max under good conditions... and he did have a perfect broadside. What's done is done and hopefully these boys learned something... but I'm not so sure they have? [/QUOTE]
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