Thread: Calibre, Rifle & Scope Sugestions For Longer Range Hunting

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

yes but its like going out the back and trying to fell the big 5 foot thru macrocarpara for firewood with ya $150 Warehouse electric chainsaw - on paper it will eventually do it but what ya need is a big 90cc Sthil with a 5 foot bar - nah - stand by my guns the 6.5 creedmore is not a long range deer rifle - I shot a lot of deer with .222 rem but I would not recommend it - get a magnum with suppressor very manageable and one is not undergunned - should not have to go thru all the rigmarole of bullet selection - what's available from local gunshop should work -

This is a silly argument. If the cartridge can deliver an appropriate projectile with enough energy at your intended range to penetrate and expand reliably giving a clean ethical kill then it's a suitable cartridge for that purpose regardless of what it was designed for.

Beside that, all the things that make it a good lr target cartridge(high bc, low wind drift, low recoil) are all advantages for hunting as well.

By the above logic wed all be shooting 416 cheytachs at anything over 300y