Hunting Rifles - Need a new one

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Pokinfun

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Sorry, sorry... I am ordering her Tuesday from Buds. $785 out the door and $25 to pick up down the street. Will post pics as soon as she gets in, scope mounted and targets shot..
you know there is a guy that will do the transfer for $10 in Lawton because you are retired military.
 

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Some will still ask "is a 6.5 big enough?" and I'd just say they've been using 6.5 for years in Europe and "back in the day" W.D.M. Bell took literally hundreds of elephants (yes, elephants) with a Mannlicher-Schoenauer in 6.5x54mm. As for using it as a varmint rifle,....

This is very true, but let's not forget that Karamojo Bell was one of the very few people on earth who have ever had both the anatomical knowledge (of elephants) AND the nerve to wade into a milling herd of these massive, marvelous beasts, and shoot them from directly in front, in the head, with a solid, non-expanding bullet. This in order to penetrate the 3-odd FEET of spongy scull bone and hit the brain.

With a good brain shot, few things will survive long, and nearly any caliber with a well-constructed projectile will work. The difficulty, of course, being able to reliably get that shot!

Regardless, there was a man!
 

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This is very true, but let's not forget that Karamojo Bell was one of the very few people on earth who have ever had both the anatomical knowledge (of elephants) AND the nerve to wade into a milling herd of these massive, marvelous beasts, and shoot them from directly in front, in the head, with a solid, non-expanding bullet. This in order to penetrate the 3-odd FEET of spongy scull bone and hit the brain.

With a good brain shot, few things will survive long, and nearly any caliber with a well-constructed projectile will work. The difficulty, of course, being able to reliably get that shot!

Regardless, there was a man!

Peter Hathaway Capstick is quite a character himself. You should read some of his books if you havent.
 

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You pretty much have the spectrum covered. BUT, to really extend range and cover the yotes to elk criteria; .26 or .28 Nosler would be the cat's meow.
 

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