Various brands of 6.5 cal

[BEEMAN]

Excellent description fordy. That's my predicament. Finding a bullet that performs best from point blank out to 600 yds in calibers from 6mm to 338.

Not only hard to find a bullet that covers those bases, most bullets are hard to find or get in Canada. I'll have to send you a PM with a list of my calibers and see what your thoughts are. I'm open to most bullets. Prefer not to much blood shot meat if possible.

 

[fordy]

Shoot away beeman
Cheers

 

[fordy]

Gday a bit come up on tumbling pills on another thread so I think I'll show some pictures on this subject & why I dislike tumbling pills although sometimes the produce very good results

I've got a fair few videos to go through to find the best one ( worst result terminally ) in 6.5 I had occur ( got many other calibers but I'll try & keep to 6.5 & theme of this thread is my thought process don't know if that's correct way let me know if not )

Give me a bit of time to sift through & gather information
Cheers

 

[Wilderness Blacktail]

Im looking forward to it!

And hearing which bullets are known to do it more than others regardless of caliber is useful info for sure.

 

[fordy]

Im looking forward to it!

And hearing which bullets are known to do it more than others regardless of caliber is useful info for sure.

Gday wilderness black tail
The one on these 6.5 tests that showed the most amount of tumble issues was the ATip hands down & if I was wanting a good frangible this is not it in my list @ all to me this ATip pill is total junk
The eld m is that frangible pill for me as that pill will open considerably better especially @ lower impacts & I'll give it a nod over the hp variety like Berger & Sierra hpmk & where this occurs & why for me is in the transition zone of a impact of the pill on the critter till it upsets to its terminal form

This here is a interesting part of terminal consistency & one that is not only with frangible as it's in every single style ( true solids excluded)
& let's just think on that a little bit deeper
If a pill opens & is to full terminal form before any major bone is impacted you have a pill that is more likely to work against a pill that in a hp case of getting a nose over & you see this in these hp varieties that have a longer transition zone or a wide transition zone of workings eg you see some pills that take a lot of distance to get to that good working terminal form of the pill
Now this we can help no doubt by cleaning up the hp & a must imo on these hp pills especially the small diameter hp or soft nose varieties
I also found a interesting thing on how to make these type of pills more consistent but not enough time to delve into that@ present but one that was very impressive on how it helped the Sierra hpmk not pencil & tumble compared to what it was renowned for imo

Anyway I'm getting the photos compiled & just found the video earlier this morning I was looking for on the ATip that shows how the real bad results occur now & then ( bingo raffle as I call it ) so I'll finish those screenshots of the videos & compile some pics to show what I've seen occur

Gotta run for now back asap
Cheers

 

[fordy]

Gday here's some of the pics of the ATip turns & tumbles this pill exhibits on a way larger % than many other styles



Next one was a pencil through lungs & didn't tumble until out of chest cavity which resulted in a very poor impact to tip time yet the wounding through the far leg shoulder meat was pretty substantial for this velocity impact but it's needed in the vitals to give a more efficient kill


I've got a few recovered pills that I'll get a pic or 2 to add to these tumbling pills & why it is of utmost importance to get a pill to deform , either a pill that that mushrooms or shed petals as if it only slightly opens or dosent open @ all from a plugged hp or nose over your likely hood of a turn & or tumble is greatly increased & then the bingo raffle starts

Cheers