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Bullet failure 130 grain nosler partition with 6.5 creedmoor
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<blockquote data-quote="Korhil78" data-source="post: 1527145" data-attributes="member: 34818"><p>Not trying to be rude at all here but I am going to go out on a limb here and say that some of the people posting on this thread have read a bunch of articles on elk hunting and now they have killed 2 or 3 themselves just by reading the articles.</p><p></p><p>If you have never de-boned meat from an elk, let me tell you that it is an eye opener. Those bones are big and solid! After seeing it, you would think that it is absolutely ridiculous to try to put a bullet through it and get positive results every time. Especially using a lighter bullet.</p><p></p><p>The bullet in no way failed in the OP's scenario. The bullet was put in a situation that it could not overcome. Some people on here are absolutely right, shot placement played the role in the bullet not being able to do its job. Others on here are just speculating that because the OP was using a 6.5 Creedmoor with a 140 gr projectile that it wasn't enough gun to kill an elk. Well I am here to tell you that a 30-06 with a 180 gr partition could have performed the same way if it struck the leg/shoulder bones of an elk. I have actually witnessed someone shooting an elk in the hind quarter with a 300 gr bullet fired from a 338 Lapua. The bullet lodged in the femur and went no further. It broke the femur in half but the elk was still standing an moving. So if a 300 gr bullet cant do it, why would it be reasonable to think that a 140 gr bullet could?</p><p></p><p>The simple fact is that if that 140 gr bullet fired from the lowly 6.5 Creedmoor was put into the lungs, it would have been a dead elk. BigNGreen just stated every FACT that needed to be known out of these 17 pages (some others did as well). FACTS are all that matters in discussions like these. Opinions lead to 17 pages of this thread.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Korhil78, post: 1527145, member: 34818"] Not trying to be rude at all here but I am going to go out on a limb here and say that some of the people posting on this thread have read a bunch of articles on elk hunting and now they have killed 2 or 3 themselves just by reading the articles. If you have never de-boned meat from an elk, let me tell you that it is an eye opener. Those bones are big and solid! After seeing it, you would think that it is absolutely ridiculous to try to put a bullet through it and get positive results every time. Especially using a lighter bullet. The bullet in no way failed in the OP's scenario. The bullet was put in a situation that it could not overcome. Some people on here are absolutely right, shot placement played the role in the bullet not being able to do its job. Others on here are just speculating that because the OP was using a 6.5 Creedmoor with a 140 gr projectile that it wasn't enough gun to kill an elk. Well I am here to tell you that a 30-06 with a 180 gr partition could have performed the same way if it struck the leg/shoulder bones of an elk. I have actually witnessed someone shooting an elk in the hind quarter with a 300 gr bullet fired from a 338 Lapua. The bullet lodged in the femur and went no further. It broke the femur in half but the elk was still standing an moving. So if a 300 gr bullet cant do it, why would it be reasonable to think that a 140 gr bullet could? The simple fact is that if that 140 gr bullet fired from the lowly 6.5 Creedmoor was put into the lungs, it would have been a dead elk. BigNGreen just stated every FACT that needed to be known out of these 17 pages (some others did as well). FACTS are all that matters in discussions like these. Opinions lead to 17 pages of this thread. [/QUOTE]
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