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what is your favorite Elk Caliber ? mine is a 8mm mauser loaded with 200 partitions @ 2500 fps
CB900F said:my favorite is a 6.5 X 55mm Swedish Mauser using my loads. The 140 grain bullet has a muzzle velocity of about 2750 fps & the JBM ballistics program tells me that the engergy remains well over 1100 ft. lbs. at 500 yards. Not that I'd willingly pull the trigger at that range. The point being that with the 6.5's sectional density & energy, it's an absolutely capable elk cartridge.
But the 'ole '06 just works.
I have been playing with Creedmoors lately. I have yet to find a load in my two books that list a 140gr over 2750 fps. Is this Chrono'd or speculation?My favorite is the .375 H&H Mag using a 250gr Barness TTSX bullet with a MV around 2,750 fps. I hunt elk, mule deer and whitetail with that load in NW and central Montana.
I shoot a 140gr ELD Match bullet at 2,900 fps out of my 6.5 Creemoor so your 6.5x55 load seems on the slow side. Personally I don't like the 6.5mm bullets for hunting anything larger than whitetail but that's not based on any data, just my personal opinion comparing expanded .375 cal bullets to expanded 6.5mm bullets along with kills on mule deer the past two years and the conditions that I hunt in. Shot placement is always key regardless of the caliber/cartridge but those 6.5mm bullets are so dang small.
I use a .308 Win, and killed a lot of elk with it. Truly, you just don't need anything more.
Captcurt said:I have yet to find a load in my two books that list a 140gr over 2750 fps. Is this Chrono'd or speculation?