Thread: Is a 6.5x55 enough gun for Thar

Originally Posted by Tahr

Good advice. Ive been a bit inclined to shoot them where I estimated the crease was to avoid shooting too far forward, and consequently have had quite a few of those slow killing lung shots. They die, but can gallop a long way with all legs working and it usually ends badly over a bluff.

Done the same thing on this bull. 150m shot front on hit him good. He ran and I shot him again broadside, missed the shoulder joint and hit through the lungs. He fell a long way down the face and broke one horn clean off which I miraculously recovered enroute to where he lay. 130gr swifts from the 6.5 single shot. Would have been better to get a broadside shot at the original location and drop him there. I was lucky it ended the way it did, it was a dodgy recovery involving hanging onto a tussock on the edge of a bluff and using the other hand to do the cutting work.