Hardest hitting 6.5CM factory round?

[S-3 ranch]

When I was growing up we shot 264wm , 6.5-284 Norma and used nosler partition and barns TSX to utilize the speed they produced, the 6.5cm is slow
That’s why I think people are using the higher explosive bullets!
I personally like the 130gr TGK and 120gr TTSX to try and keep the speeds up

 

[Maverick1]

That’s why I think people are using the higher explosive bullets!

Tell us more about these explosive bullets….

 

[LongWayAround]

you can eat right up to the hole which I like.


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Is that what she said?

 

[S-3 ranch]

Tell us more about these explosive bullets….

That frangable match bullet debate has been beaten to death
Get a clue difference on thin walled match bullet and bonded & mono

 

[LongWayAround]

@Willbev14

If you're a shoulder shooter, the ELD-M and -X are probably not what you're looking for. The M wrecks a lot of meat when shot at close range into shoulders.

Put the ELD-M behind the shoulder and get your knife out.

Or, stick with a more robust projectile.

 

[bymers311]

Not saying they are any better than many of the others listed, but we have had great results with Hornady's 129gr interlocks in their American Whitetail line. Every whitetail we have shot with them dropped within 5 yards. Most of those shots being within 150-225 yards aside from a crazy situation that resulted in a button buck within 8yards. They were the only things on the shelves during the Covid times, so that is what we have been shooting for awhile. When we shoot through the last of the few boxes we have left I do plan to test some ELD-X and ELD-M loads as I have had great results with those in my other guns.

 

[Willbev14]

I would consider meat damage with the bullet you are shooting. I’ve shot some where the front shoulder was totally unusable. Not with the 6.5 though. 143 eld-x and like someone said before you can eat right up to the hole which I like.


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That is something to consider. I don’t like losing meat. I don’t especially like watching them run off after a hit either. Good to know that the ELD-X doesn’t pulverize them, maybe it’s the best of both worlds.

 

[Formidilosus]

When I was growing up we shot 264wm , 6.5-284 Norma and used nosler partition and barns TSX to utilize the speed they produced, the 6.5cm is slow
That’s why I think people are using the higher explosive bullets!

From your personal experience with them, correct? I mean you wouldn’t definitively post about something you haven’t seen or done… right?

I personally like the 130gr TGK and 120gr TTSX to try and keep the speeds up

Again- you must like them because of extensive use with them. I haven’t used the 120gr TTSX 6.5mm much- what has been your personal experience with them in the 6.5cm on animals?

 

[S-3 ranch]

From your personal experience with them, correct? I mean you wouldn’t definitively post about something you haven’t seen or done… right?




Again- you must like them because of extensive use with them. I haven’t used the 120gr TTSX 6.5mm much- what has been your personal experience with them in the 6.5cm on animals?

Dead deer & hogs , with a golf ball size exit , actually what I shoot are 120gr S&B TXRG and 129gr core-Lokt tipped 6.5 cm ( ran out of TGK unfortunately)
And Norma 130gr oryx in my .270

 

[Formidilosus]

Dead deer & hogs , with a golf ball size exit , actually what I shoot are 120gr S&B TXRG and 129gr core-Lokt tipped 6.5 cm

So you haven’t use the bullets in 6.5cm that you “like better”? Or the bullets that you don’t like?

 

[LongWayAround]

So you haven’t use the bullets in 6.5cm that you “like better”? Or the bullets that you don’t like?

Yes

 

[wind gypsy]

@Willbev14

If you're a shoulder shooter, the ELD-M and -X are probably not what you're looking for. The M wrecks a lot of meat when shot at close range into shoulders.

Put the ELD-M behind the shoulder and get your knife out.

Or, stick with a more robust projectile.

If I were a shoulder shooter Id like the idea of a more frangible bullet because the margin for error is less. But the idea of high shoulder shots and meat preservation seem to be at odds with each other anyway.

 

[Treeman_MG]

It's kind of funny how worked up people get about "meat loss", especially on whitetail deer. There just isn't a lot of meat on the shoulders to begin with, and they are a pain to trim. I'd much rather drop the animal where it stands with some "meat damage", then have it run off and potentially lose it all.

But. . . .I can get 4-6 doe tags and 2 buck tags per year, so if I want more meat, I just shoot another deer.

 

[LongWayAround]

If I were a shoulder shooter Id like the idea of a more frangible bullet because the margin for error is less. But the idea of high shoulder shots and meat preservation seem to be at odds with each other anyway.

Fair enough. I'm an unintentional shoulder shooter. It seems like if you hit the flat part of the scapula the damage isn't bad but hitting the ridge or closer to the knuckle can be impressive.

 

[CMF]

Only two kills so far with our 6.5cm, both 143grn eld-x on Oryx. One made it 100-120yds, the other was DRT.