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tahunua001 · October 13, 2013, 01:22 PM

I killed my first black bear with the 6.5 jap with a 140gr accubond. the accubond sucked, I just lucked out and half of the bullet hit the liver and the other half hit the heart. it only made it about 30 yards before it dropped.

I have a t44 carbine so with a 20 inch barrel the 6.5 looks even more pathetic on paper but if it'll kill a 250 LB black bear at ~100-ish yards then it'll definitely kill a deer and and if a 6.5 traveling 2000 FPS can do that then a 6.5x55 traveling 2600 FPS is that much better.

October 13, 2013, 01:22 PM	#24
tahunua001 Senior Member Join Date: July 21, 2011 Location: Idaho Posts: 7,839	I killed my first black bear with the 6.5 jap with a 140gr accubond. the accubond sucked, I just lucked out and half of the bullet hit the liver and the other half hit the heart. it only made it about 30 yards before it dropped. I have a t44 carbine so with a 20 inch barrel the 6.5 looks even more pathetic on paper but if it'll kill a 250 LB black bear at ~100-ish yards then it'll definitely kill a deer and and if a 6.5 traveling 2000 FPS can do that then a 6.5x55 traveling 2600 FPS is that much better. __________________ ignore my complete lack of capitalization. I still have no problem correcting your grammar. I never said half the stuff people said I did-Albert Einstein You can't believe everything you read on the internet-Benjamin Franklin