Thread: Calibre, Rifle & Scope Sugestions For Longer Range Hunting

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

no no no no dont go down this route - you asked for good advice well thats not it - the 6.5 creedmore was developed as a target round - it is not a long range deer cartridge - it was never intended to be or designed to be - many young hunters will learn that the hard way - it has not been around in NZ hunting circles for long - basically what is wrong is that is just not have the knock down power at range simply as that - there will be forum users who will jump on here and quote chapter and verse about its credentials on paper but its basically a squaw gun - get a magnum for long range - that is what they were designed for - tikka yes very nice but others out there just as good -

It shoots the same projectile within 100fps as a prc in most cases mate its light recoiling it's easy to put it where its ment to go