Thread: Is a 6.5x55 enough gun for Thar

I've shot at least 30, maybe 40 tahr with my 6.5x47 and 125gn Nosler partitions (its is an old action, so it runs at a very sedate 2700 fps) and its always worked absolutely fine out to 300M - about as far as I'll shoot. The thing I've found with partitions is that they can be quite "picky" about barrels they'll shoot in. I have had a series of rifles that they were hopeless in (a 250-3000, a 6.5-06, and a 7x64 - they all shot really well with other projectiles) and I only tried them in the 6.5x47 cause they were "in the cupboard". They go perfectly OK in the wee Mauser kurz and its a bit fussy about what it likes - so its hard to make that one out!!