Thread: Fallow and the 6mm Creedmoor

Pest control done right, plus kai for the table. Nice.

@Flyblown am I correct with the place? Looks really familiar in a couple photos thats all, no drama either way

No. Not far off, but other side of the watershed. The last word should give you a clue.

Originally Posted by Flyblown

Expand, or expand & shed fragments & end up like the one in the photo? Too different things.

I’ve been shooting good sized red deer at 400m+ with this cartridge and getting clean kills, so that’s ~2200 ft/sec and ~1200 ft-lb. After examining wounds (I did a video), I decided 400-450m was about the sensible limit for reds if there was a bit of wind about.

Numerous goats have been smoked in the 400-500m range. 575m is the longest, poleaxed it, but it was a high shoulder shot (and he fell off the bluff which would have hurt).

These fallow were all around 300m.

The 6mm is way more unreliable in fickle hill country gully winds than the 6.5mm. Gong shooting has proven this. Sounds obvious but nothing like a bit of proof to discourage silly shots.

I agree with what you have written here. Personally I think that velocity above 2000 fps is more important than energy figures, the '1000 foot pounds' being an idea dreamt up by a yank bloke decades ago with no testing. Seems to be that even with good retained energy slower bullets can do a lot of damage but the animal runs a fair way - if they are found.

Originally Posted by Flyblown

No. Not far off, but other side of the watershed. The last word should give you a clue.

I see. Shit the photos look like top of Roger's place up waitotara , with the old shed down the corner but no worries. I used to live there thats only reason I ask.
Alot of mates running farms down there are struggling to keep numbers down. One shot 106 fallow a weekend or 2 ago just to knock the numbers back.
Bloody padock rats

Originally Posted by Pongo12

I see. Shit the photos look like top of Roger's place up waitotara , with the old shed down the corner but no worries. I used to live there thats only reason I ask.
Alot of mates running farms down there are struggling to keep numbers down. One shot 106 fallow a weekend or 2 ago just to knock the numbers back.
Bloody padock rats

I know nothing of the area, but with numbers so high does the public area get targetted with 1080? Or is it all private land.

The 15 years I was farming wanganui ways against the native etc most was private land with a bit of public but it never got touched with 1080. Myself and mates shot 280 first year I was managing one of the blocks. Crazy numbers of reds and fallow around there, alot of guys are charging people to hunt now as its a beauty lil cash earn for cockies.

Enjoyed reading that. I’ve always been a fan of the 243 but that 6mm sounds pretty cool too! Awesome.