Thread: First blood for the 6.5

Originally Posted by charliehorse

I would have expected a bit more carnage for 6.5 v cat....?? this is where the derogatory banter stems from I'm guessing

A good while back in WA I was helping a mate with load development for his 6.5-284 goat culling gun. It was already quite a tired rifle with unknown round count but shot well enough. He says to me… Dave, what bullet will we use? I says Mate, I reckon no need for anything fancy, a good light HP will do, see what you can find. So he bought a bulk pack of 1,000 Sierra 100gr HPs. I can’t remember how fast we got them going but it was pretty damn quick.

The very first thing he shot with the new load was a big black outback tomcat. Let’s just say that everything forward of the liver looked like that party spray string, except for the head which was intact and about 20 yards away from the rest of it. I’ve never seen a red mister like that, before or since.

Don’t worry cat lovers, it didn’t suffer.