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Bullet failure 130 grain nosler partition with 6.5 creedmoor
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<blockquote data-quote="Orange Dust" data-source="post: 2254112" data-attributes="member: 92702"><p>Here's my $.02. Rifles are just like shotguns and handguns. The more powerful, the more they kick. Everyone, including me likes to start youngsters and ladies with minimal recoil and especially blast. Doing otherwise can quickly steer them away from both hunting and shooting. Folks who have seen lots of stuff die also know that the smaller the caliber or gauge, the more important shot placement and distance becomes. You can easily kill a brown bear or moose with a .22 Hornet if you get close enough and put the little bullet in exactly the right place. Does this mean the .22 Hornet is adequate for those animals? It certainly is in the right hands, but might just be suicide in the wrong ones. Everyone here knows what would have happened with the same hit from a heavy partition from a big cased .338 Mag... Get the knife. However, most likely it is an even less than ideal tool for the little one than the creed. When ever hunting with a cartridge that is on the lite side for the game you are hunting you have to work within the limitations you have. If the animal had been closer, perfectly broadside, punched through the ribs deflating both lungs.... Get the knife. We must all be honest with ourselves in both our abilities, and knowledge of anatomy. We must use that knowledge along with the limitations of whatever cartridge we use to decide when and when not to shoot. Expert hunters touting extreme range kills with little cartridges may be great marketing hype, but of little use, and may actually be detrimental to the average hunter. It proves little more than the Eskimo killing many moose with a .22 Hornet, or Bell killing elephants with a 6.5x55.</p><p>I can't consider this bullet failure. In my mind it is operator error, and no one wants to be told that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orange Dust, post: 2254112, member: 92702"] Here's my $.02. Rifles are just like shotguns and handguns. The more powerful, the more they kick. Everyone, including me likes to start youngsters and ladies with minimal recoil and especially blast. Doing otherwise can quickly steer them away from both hunting and shooting. Folks who have seen lots of stuff die also know that the smaller the caliber or gauge, the more important shot placement and distance becomes. You can easily kill a brown bear or moose with a .22 Hornet if you get close enough and put the little bullet in exactly the right place. Does this mean the .22 Hornet is adequate for those animals? It certainly is in the right hands, but might just be suicide in the wrong ones. Everyone here knows what would have happened with the same hit from a heavy partition from a big cased .338 Mag... Get the knife. However, most likely it is an even less than ideal tool for the little one than the creed. When ever hunting with a cartridge that is on the lite side for the game you are hunting you have to work within the limitations you have. If the animal had been closer, perfectly broadside, punched through the ribs deflating both lungs.... Get the knife. We must all be honest with ourselves in both our abilities, and knowledge of anatomy. We must use that knowledge along with the limitations of whatever cartridge we use to decide when and when not to shoot. Expert hunters touting extreme range kills with little cartridges may be great marketing hype, but of little use, and may actually be detrimental to the average hunter. It proves little more than the Eskimo killing many moose with a .22 Hornet, or Bell killing elephants with a 6.5x55. I can't consider this bullet failure. In my mind it is operator error, and no one wants to be told that. [/QUOTE]
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