Thread: Fallow and the 6mm Creedmoor

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.