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xausa
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Re: use enough gun
31/03/09 04:45 AM

For thin skinned game, I would incline to the smaller caliber, assuming shots were to be taken in the open with little liklihood of intervening underbrush. 6.5 mm is a favorite of mine, and incidentally the minimum caliber for wild boar in some European countries. The .256 Newton, although long discontinued from production, lives on in cartridges like the 6.5 Remington Magnum, the 6.5-.284 and the 6.5-'06, plus the intriguing 6.5X64 Brenneke and 6.5X65 RWS.

For thick shinned game I would go in the opposite direction. Where the use of full jacketed bullets is concerned, I prefer the largest diameter bullet the shooter can comfortably and capably shoot.
This is why virtually all my thick skinned trophies were taken with caliber.500-.505". I feel that this caliber combines sufficient bullet weight with sufficient penetration without the risk of expending terminal energy on thin air, as a result of a bullet which exits the animal.

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Subject	Posted by	Posted on
use enough gun	grandveneur	31/03/09 02:23 AM
Re: use enough gun	xausa	31/03/09 04:45 AM
Re: use enough gun	ozhunter	31/03/09 09:26 PM
Re: use enough gun	grandveneur	01/04/09 01:29 AM
Re: use enough gun	Ripp	01/04/09 12:55 AM
Re: use enough gun	DarylS	01/04/09 02:04 AM
Re: use enough gun	grandveneur	01/04/09 03:02 AM
Re: use enough gun	DarylS	01/04/09 03:22 AM
Re: use enough gun	peter	01/04/09 03:40 AM
Re: use enough gun	DarylS	01/04/09 10:51 AM
Re: use enough gun	peter	01/04/09 06:17 PM
Re: use enough gun	DarylS	02/04/09 01:05 AM
Re: use enough gun	JabaliHunter	01/04/09 04:46 AM
Re: use enough gun	bigmaxx	01/04/09 01:44 AM

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