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06-04-2021, 16:06 #11
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06-04-2021, 17:30 #12
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06-04-2021, 22:51 #13
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07-04-2021, 07:15 #14
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Re: Hunting with Lappua scenar 139gr 6.5 Creedmoor
It depends solely on what are you hunting. A grouse, raccoon dog and fox die just fine when you punch a clean 6,5 mm hole to them with a supersonic projectile, but I wouldn't use hollow point target bullets when hunting large mammals.
A grouse killed by Lapua Scenar 139 gr bullet sent from my Sako 75 Hunter 6.5X55 SE. The range was 264 m and the kill area is about the size of a matchbox. Good luck hitting there with a .222 REM in the field. A bullet is a tool and tools have purposes.
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07-04-2021, 08:33 #15
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Re: Hunting with Lappua scenar 139gr 6.5 Creedmoor
Not going to advocate any choice, but on the subject, I suspect more than 99% of things are used outside of their original design specifications.
If you go into someone's workshop, and work a day with them, then you see they use many tools for different jobs simply because it works, not because they are trying to be funny, it's called tricks of the trade.
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07-04-2021, 09:45 #16
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07-04-2021, 10:03 #17
Re: Hunting with Lappua scenar 139gr 6.5 Creedmoor
I’m more surprised that our tame(ish) Finn has a Swede. I thought the Finns detested them.
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07-04-2021, 11:34 #18
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07-04-2021, 15:06 #19
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Re: Hunting with Lappua scenar 139gr 6.5 Creedmoor
We agree a bullet is a tool, and tools have purposes, AK. But the scenar is neither a hunting tool, nor intended for it. Of course it can kill, though. (Half bricks also do.)
As to killing a poor little bird far, far away: did the swede make you do it?
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07-04-2021, 18:24 #20
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Re: Hunting with Lappua scenar 139gr 6.5 Creedmoor
Grouse hunting is very popular in Finland and the birds are a perfect ingredient for a delicious meal. The Swedes have two things of which one could be envious about: an excellent medium size all-around hunting and sniper cartridge and a neighbouring country with fiercely fighting warriors as a hard to cross buffer zone between them and the Crazy Ivan
I can't kill a bird with half a brick from distances over 250 meters, so I have to use precision rifles and superior target grade ammunition to hit such a small kill area. You do understand that people are killed professionally with hollow point high SD non-hunting target ammunition all the time, right now as you read this text? Do the targets complain? Nope, they just die. A free man can argue whatever he wants and may vindicate his views with theories or hearsay, but I speak from real life experience when I tell that none of the living beings I've killed with the Scenar have ever made a complaint I killed them wrong.
I would never shoot an elk or a deer with any tactical/sport bullet. Use you wit and make your choice according to the task at hand. Blanket statements should be hidden under one and just kept there.
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