Thread: First fail - 6.5mm 143gr ELD-X

Just to define “first fail”. Its the first animal I’ve not killed with the 6.5mm ELD-X and has gotten clean away. A percentage of the goats we shoot - 10-15%? - need two shots. I do wait a wee while to see if a second is really necessary.

Its inevitable that sometimes a windage call is a bit out and they get hit too far back. But when this happens, there’s more than enough oommppff with the 6.5mm to knock them down and almost all the time paralyse the back legs as a minimum. Goats are, as a general rule I think, quite easy to kill. (And if you’ve ever kept domestic goats like we have you’ll know they are also the best at catching a mild ailment and dying on you quick as a flash. Hopeless creatures.)