Honestly, eastern whitetail is 30-30 all day long. 45-70 for thick brush in Maine. Upstate NY, would be 125 grain SST’s in a .300 blackout to keep it light. But OP wanted to know about a 6.5CM, as they see the ammo everywhere. That 6.5 will work all North American game with factory ammo. So...
Thank you. It's funny, when I graduated HS in 1999, I couldn't join the Navy fast enough to get out of this tiny little town. Then I spent the next 20 years trying to get back here.
I’ve been running 6.5CM for a while. First one was a savage axis. I wasn’t a fan of the default heavy bolt lift of the savage. But when my father went with me to sight it in he fell in love. Told mom he needs one, because “it doesn’t suck to shoot.”
I upgraded from the savage to a Howa...