Another Texas hunting story

Got two more hogs Fri night with a Marlin lever in 35 Rem . Wife showed up for the Sat hunt , we saw nothing good . We split up for Sun morning . I heard her shot . She got a nice 8 pt whitetail with her bolt rifle in 6mm Rem . Ballistic report . I went to a lighter bullet at high velocity for this hunt . 80 Rem corelokt at 3460 fps . At 130 yards it worked perfect . It hit just back of the shoulder , no blood , almost no hole . The deer just dropped . The bullet had made a pinhole going in but when it hit the ribs it just blew up . A fist size hole through 5 ribs and it turned the lungs to jelly . But it did not hit the other side . Instant drop and no meat loss . So speed does kill . Still no deer for me though .

Good to hear someone is still using the 6mm Remington which is an excellent cartridge although originally eclipsed by the .243 Winchester when the Remington cartridge was known as the .244 Remington. Remington screwed up when they originally gave their 722 rifles chambered for the .244 Remington a 1 in 12 twist which wouldn't stabilize the heavier bullets. Winchester wisely gave their Model 70 and 88 rifles a 1 in 10 twist and when reports from the field started circulating throughout the hunting community sales of the 722 started to lag. Remington wisely started to give their rifles a faster twist and announced their "brand new" cartridge, the 6mm Remington.

The 6mm Rem has always been her favorite , always goes back to it after trying something new . We had used 100 grain bullets for a while , but I wanted to try the 80 grain at high speed . It shoots fast enough to not have to worry about bullet drop out to about 250 yards . She shoots well enough so not to have to worry about extra killing power of a stronger round . It is funny as it seems 6mm is the "new " craze in hunting ammo with several new 6mm cartridges . But the old 6mm Rem is as good as or better then them .

My daughter uses a 6mm Remington. Killed all her dear with it.

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Originally Posted by bob q

It is funny as it seems 6mm is the "new " craze in hunting ammo with several new 6mm cartridges . But the old 6mm Rem is as good as or better then them .

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Hunting AND target rounds. Yeah. it's funny, what was old is new again. Several cartridges and or calibers in the 6mm to 7mm range that came out 70, 80, and even a century ago are seeing a resurgence. One of my favorites, the .270 Winchester is 100 years old this year and guess what caliber the U.S. Army is going to in their new XM5 rifle? You guessed it, .277" (6.8mm)! Winchester saw the value of the 6.5mm caliber back in 1958 when they announced the .264 Winchester Magnum after decades of the 6.5mm being the go-to caliber in European Armies. It's hard not to laugh when some young guy at the range wants to show you the latest and greatest rifle cartridge he's recently discovered and you have to tell him that yah, that's already been done. I remember thinking the 7mm Remington Magnum was a big deal until an older gent at the range told me the 7 X 61 Sharp and Hart was more powerful than the 7mm Remington Magnum and was developed a decade before.