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<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 2651640" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>Of choice? Not really but this blesbok ram gave up after an encounter with a pointed 6mm 105gr RDF from a .243AI. Distance was 500m on the nose. It was running about 3200fps from the muzzle IIRC. Tiny wind varying from 1-3mph made for a decent hold off but I ended up with a through and through on both shoulders and a ton of large blood vessels having opened up and said, "Ahhhhh" for me. In hindsight the pointing of the thing probably helped with getting an exit wound and keeping the thing from grenading on the first shoulder. It punched a lot of bone on the way through and left a ~10mm exit hole without doing a huge amount of meat damage. I'm just not a fan of 6mm on African game above the size of a springbok (a bit smaller than a pronghorn). This day it was a loaner rifle with match ammo not hunting ammo and I was a guest invited last minute so, catch as catch can. I was confident in my shot and I had passed up on many shots that day that I wasn't 100% on. It still died and didn't live but 20 seconds after the hit, it also didn't travel more than about 20-30m from the spot where it took the hit before piling up and it didn't seem to be really aware that it was walking at all after the hit. This is not advocacy of .243cal for big game or for match bullets, quite the opposite. This is nothing but a case of a shooter being more capable than the ammo deciding on going ahead and making a low percentage shot at longer than ideal range and everything turned out ok. I've shot wildebeest in the head from <200m with a .308, completely mushing the skull but the heart kept beating and the thing needed a coup d'gras. Make the decision that your soul can live with based on the knowledge and experience you have and not based on how you want things to turn out. If you do it bad you get to carry that regret with you forever. If you do it right you get to carry the victory with you forever, but you'll still know it was a bad idea to begin with if you're honest with yourself.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://ballisticxlr.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/image-from-ios-21.jpg?w=480" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 2651640, member: 96226"] Of choice? Not really but this blesbok ram gave up after an encounter with a pointed 6mm 105gr RDF from a .243AI. Distance was 500m on the nose. It was running about 3200fps from the muzzle IIRC. Tiny wind varying from 1-3mph made for a decent hold off but I ended up with a through and through on both shoulders and a ton of large blood vessels having opened up and said, "Ahhhhh" for me. In hindsight the pointing of the thing probably helped with getting an exit wound and keeping the thing from grenading on the first shoulder. It punched a lot of bone on the way through and left a ~10mm exit hole without doing a huge amount of meat damage. I'm just not a fan of 6mm on African game above the size of a springbok (a bit smaller than a pronghorn). This day it was a loaner rifle with match ammo not hunting ammo and I was a guest invited last minute so, catch as catch can. I was confident in my shot and I had passed up on many shots that day that I wasn't 100% on. It still died and didn't live but 20 seconds after the hit, it also didn't travel more than about 20-30m from the spot where it took the hit before piling up and it didn't seem to be really aware that it was walking at all after the hit. This is not advocacy of .243cal for big game or for match bullets, quite the opposite. This is nothing but a case of a shooter being more capable than the ammo deciding on going ahead and making a low percentage shot at longer than ideal range and everything turned out ok. I've shot wildebeest in the head from <200m with a .308, completely mushing the skull but the heart kept beating and the thing needed a coup d'gras. Make the decision that your soul can live with based on the knowledge and experience you have and not based on how you want things to turn out. If you do it bad you get to carry that regret with you forever. If you do it right you get to carry the victory with you forever, but you'll still know it was a bad idea to begin with if you're honest with yourself. [IMG]https://ballisticxlr.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/image-from-ios-21.jpg?w=480[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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