If a hard-kicking rifle doesn’t faze you, go ahead and shoot a. has plenty of muscle if the range isn’t too far, but now we have to begin considering recoil.Įvery shooter has his or her personal tolerance for recoil, so if a cartridge is going to be perfect you need to be comfortable shooting it. You have some real firepower in these classes.

That puts you into 7mm (.284) and 7.62mm (.308) territory. While any 6.5 cartridge will kill the biggest deer in the world, if you hunt Maine and Vermont bruisers or Canadian heavyweights, you might want to move up to calibers that shoot heavier bullets. The common denominator is their terminal effectiveness.īut there’s that “well-placed shot” phrase again. Whitetail rifles and the bullets they shoot come in many shapes and sizes. They’ll all get the job done with a well-placed shot, even on big deer. That puts us into the 6.5 (.264 caliber) class of cartridges with 120-grain bullets - the. Some will argue that the lighter bullets might actually be more effective, but whatever you shoot from a 6mm, it’s still a bit on the light side if you don’t make a well-placed shot. The heaviest factory bullet you can shoot from a 6mm weighs 105 grains. These cartridges have some passionate supporters, but that only reinforces my point that the 6mms are not for everyone. That rules out the popular 6mm cartridges, including the. To be a candidate for “perfect” in my book, I suggest a bullet no lighter than 120 grains. I could throw every hunter who never has or never will make a marginal shot into the back of my pickup and still have room for a cord of firewood. 22 Eargesplitten Loudenboomer won’t kill a deer quickly with a marginal shot, and we all make a marginal shot from time to time. I recovered him, but I’ll tell you this - even the.

I made a marginal shot on my next buck that clipped a lung. 22-bore cartridge (or smaller) to do the job, you need to make a very well-placed shot, like the neck shot I made on my first buck. The part he said about recoil was true, but the rest was baloney.

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