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Originally Posted by yooper
My Swede (and Fred's most likely) is 6.5mm Swedish Mauser. It's a fucking sweet round. More moose an other big game have gone down to that caliber than any other most likely. The gub pundits will tell you that it's underpowered for big game but the game animals don't know any better, they just die.
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Yup, 6.5. Easy and pleasant to shoot, but deadly to whatever it hits. Because the bullet is about 4 times longer than it is in diameter, it tumbles like a MF upon impact, rattles around inside like Pac-Man for a while, and leaves a nasty wound path.
They've been used on bear for years and years with great success.
Nice flat trajectory too, so even at distance, it's easy to hit what you're aiming at.