Thread: Fallow and the 6mm Creedmoor

Cracker of a yarn mate, loved it! That country reminded me a bit of a block I used to hunt near the Wanganui river; very remote and slowly losing the battle with the regenerating scrub, but a fantastic place to tip over some fallow.

I think you took the right caliber i.e. 6mm instead of the 223. Beyond 200yd I always felt a bit under-gunned with the 223 (even with fallow!). Past 200 I tended to get a few runners, although they don’t tend to go too far when a 55 has punched through both lungs. I vividly remember squeezing off at a fallow spiker at about 220yd, aiming for the crease behind the shoulder with a 55 barnes. He reacted to the shot but began cantering towards the bush line so I emptied the Tikka’s mag thinking he had been gut shot, but despite my efforts he disappeared over the brow of a hill. “Total Clusterfuck” was my initial thought, but sure enough I found him as dead as a doorknob just over the brow of the hill with a neat hole in the crease, and another one below the hock on a back leg, which reinforced how shit I am at running shots! Eventually switched to a 243, perfect fallow caliber although I do like the look of the 6mmCM