6mm /.243 hunting success on Big Game

Dang you.

Any noticeable difference on the game animals? Shorter time to drop? Wound channels?

Not the numbers of other guys. This year I personally witnessed or shot.

1 Mule deer 22CM 77TMK - devastating at 150 ish yards, cantaloupe size wound channel, bullet base found off side hide.

2 Caribou 22CM 80 ELDM 500-550 yards, each received a couple rounds, neither travelled more than 10 yards, baseball size wound channels

1 cow elk 22CM 80 ELDM - not my best shooting 500 yards , heart shot immediately dropped her. Base ball through chest cavity

1 cow elk 300ish yards 6CM 108eldm. I didn’t spend much time w this one, hard to find entrance wound, liquified chest cavity except heart (I’m thinking pulmonary veins/arteries and onside lung) , maybe 30 yards travelled.

1 small bull elk 6CM 109 ELDM 225 yards 4 impacts (fast), it made a mess, I have no concerns.

1 caribou, 1 cow elk, 1 bull elk sitting shooting off vertical standing pack (not ideal) , to me no appreciable difference in maintaining sight picture between 6CM and 22CM.

I agree w @MX, no concerns w either. That being said if it was one or the other I’d absolutely go 6CM. More factory ammo choices, seems less picky on bullet choice, almost interchangeable ballistics, and double the barrel life.
 
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