Thread: 6.5 B's and C's

Ive owned a 6.5x55 tikka for years. It's by far the most boring gun I have ever owned BUT I have owned it for the longest out of all my firearms... The reason is all the deer I've shot just fall over on the spot.

I reload for her which makes it cheap to feed and allows a 140gn amax and corelokt load @2750fps with almost identical poi at 100m.

Unless you are shooting 700m+ or want to sink battleship's then its the last gun you will need to hunt deer when paired with a top quality scope.


It really is a fantastic cartridge.

Originally Posted by Timmay

Ive owned a 6.5x55 tikka for years. It's by far the most boring gun I have ever owned BUT I have owned it for the longest out of all my firearms... The reason is all the deer I've shot just fall over on the spot.

I reload for her which makes it cheap to feed and allows a 140gn amax and corelokt load @2750fps with almost identical poi at 100m.

Unless you are shooting 700m+ or want to sink battleship's then its the last gun you will need to hunt deer when paired with a top quality scope.


It really is a fantastic cartridge.

Just to add the 6.5x55 is very mild to shoot also. I would rate around .243win level