TriggerTime426
Well-Known Member
Ive been meaning to do a write up about how my particular bullet behaved. I know there are quite a few threads regarding how bergers perform on game, alot of people report that they don't get exit wounds with them so I thought I would give a detailed account of how the 6.5 156 performed. The round was a 6.5-06 running 2830fps out of a custom remington 700, the shot was 1006yds out and on a quartering away bull elk. The bullet entered the back of the rib cage and essentially vaporized the internals shedding the liver as well as the back side lung and portions of the front lung, going through the back shoulder and coming to rest on the outside membrane of the shoulder muscle, this was the largest part of the bullet weighing 26gr and a few small 4gr fragments. These little fragments were found throughout. The amount of energy dump into the body cavity was exceptional, and still maintain enough to go through the back shoulder blade was impressive, especially at that extended range. Don't need a exit wound when essentially a frag grenade goes off in the boiler room. This particular elk dropped in his tracks, and even if he would have ran he wouldn't have gone far.
