Thread: 6.5mm questions....

Originally Posted by Flyblown

@outdoorlad, how would you characterise the shot replacement on your five deer with the 6.5 mm SST? Where they roughly the same?

Was there a common point of impact and angle of pass through? Can you describe it like "front line of foreleg" or "in the crease" or "behind the shoulder", that kind of thing?

For normal hunting ranges, I'm 100% convinced that where you hit them in the boiler room, and with what, has more influence on whether or not they go down fast, than calibre and speed. Take an old school .30-30 and a slow flat point, and a .243 and a fast soft-point spitzer, and you can do exactly the same thing to a deer with a certain type of boiler room shot.
@Mooseman's large sambar the other day was a perfect example of the Swede doing the bizzo yet in some countries these days it seems the Swede is regarded as "not enough gun" for their poxy tiddler deer!

All bar one were in the shoulder region and normally I go for the foreleg area to break bone, two however were angled, one stag facing me on an angle in the bush, hit thru the shoulder and exited mid ribs. The other was a yearling angling slightly away, behind the shoulder and out thru the offside shoulder.

I guess the point I was trying to make was that the 129SST seems to preform very well at a slow to moderate speed, a friend tried the 130gn sst in his 270 years ago and hated them as they expanded to quickly and didn’t penetrate at the high speed they were going.