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<blockquote data-quote="Shootin4fun" data-source="post: 1629803" data-attributes="member: 28741"><p>[QUOTE="Watched a 300 mag kill 2 bulls so fast, it dam near knocked their ivories out. No love for the misuse of the 6.5 on big game. Great deer and target round though.</p><p>I own an 06, mostly out of respect for the round. /QUOTE]</p><p>+1! Misuse of the 6.5 on big game...It gets worse with the 6.5 Grendel...There are guys (and gals) on 6.5G forums that hunt (& kill) elk with those, in short barrel AR form. Why?? SMH It's a psychological phenomenon I see over and over, even in the airgun world...gotta try to kill the largest think imaginable with the person has. It leads to being inhumane. </p><p>And "out of respect"...how many guys bought an M1 Garand from the government program just for that reason? Hundreds of thousands I suppose! I laugh when I tell followers of certain anti-gun (AR) politicians who say "Military style weapons have no place in the hands of civilians." that the government emptied warehouses of M1 Gs and carbines into the hands of civilians. A lot of us learned to shoot high power rifles with WWII M1s. The beaches of Normandy were "assaulted" by them! BANG x 8 PING!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shootin4fun, post: 1629803, member: 28741"] [QUOTE="Watched a 300 mag kill 2 bulls so fast, it dam near knocked their ivories out. No love for the misuse of the 6.5 on big game. Great deer and target round though. I own an 06, mostly out of respect for the round. /QUOTE] +1! Misuse of the 6.5 on big game...It gets worse with the 6.5 Grendel...There are guys (and gals) on 6.5G forums that hunt (& kill) elk with those, in short barrel AR form. Why?? SMH It's a psychological phenomenon I see over and over, even in the airgun world...gotta try to kill the largest think imaginable with the person has. It leads to being inhumane. And "out of respect"...how many guys bought an M1 Garand from the government program just for that reason? Hundreds of thousands I suppose! I laugh when I tell followers of certain anti-gun (AR) politicians who say "Military style weapons have no place in the hands of civilians." that the government emptied warehouses of M1 Gs and carbines into the hands of civilians. A lot of us learned to shoot high power rifles with WWII M1s. The beaches of Normandy were "assaulted" by them! BANG x 8 PING! [/QUOTE]
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