I watched a video awhile back on The Mountain Man, where a client from Spain was knocking down Alaskan Big Game with his 6.5 / 300 Weatherby with one shot, while using some kind of 125 gr hard bullet... with high speeds... but he didn't mention how fast. It got me to wondering if that high speed setup could be the Ultimate DRT Combo. Does anyone on this site have any real world experience with this caliber and DRT results?
>>>>6.5 - 300 Weatherby.... cause DRT....???<<<<
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Ledd Slinger
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Yeah it would be the ultimate DRT round for about 300 rounds before you need a new barrel. There’s a reason you barely hear about that round. Same reason why the 26 Nosler died out nearly as fast as it was introduced.
My fast 6.5 cal rifles easily push 140gr bullets up over 3200 fps and are very hard on barrels yet they probably have 30gr less case capacity than the 6.5-300 WBY
I was hoping that someone on this site was using this caliber and had some kind of killing power results.
Ledd Slinger
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It’s gonna kill like any other 6.5mm using the same bullet. A couple hundred feet per second extra isn’t gonna change the world. I’ve shot animals with the Berger 140gr in a 6.5 Rem Mag going 3050 fps and the same bullet going 3230 fps. Results were the same. So i can pretty much guarantee that round won’t kill any better than my 6.5 RM
If you are concerned with heavy hitting killing power for anything in North America then you need to look at something bigger like a large 338 cal cartridge. When you see the impact of a fast heavy 33 cal bullet on an animal, the shock wave sent thru the entire body is a sight to behold!
6.5s can be fast, accurate, and fun to shoot with low recoil, but after having been killing animals with the 6.5 caliber for over 15 years now, I can tell you that there is absolutely no reason to push any of the 6.5 bullet offerings much over 3200 fps. If you want more than that, it’s time to step up to a cartridge with a bigger bore
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DRT is from neurological damage. The bullet/speed doesn't matter much, it's more a function of location. Be forewarned, the image is a gruesome.
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timeout
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I have similar results with a well placed neck shot.
okie
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this!
Ledd Slinger
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That’s a dangerous gamble. Seen plenty of animals get away from people trying to hit the spine in the neck
timeout
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That hasn't been my experience but I'm talking at reasonable yardages and usually from an elevated stand. Man has to know his abilities and limitations. Plenty of animals been lost to other shot placement choices as well.
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Hino895
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Helping my friend with his 6.5/300 weatherby accumark.
We’re loading a large dose of 50bmg and 140s.
Haven’t chronographed them yet but they definitely overshadow my 6.5PRC.
And super accurate.
We’re making cases out of .300 weatherby cases.
Neck down using a 7mm Weatherby die and finishing with the 6.5/300 die.
We’re loading a large dose of 50bmg and 140s.
Haven’t chronographed them yet but they definitely overshadow my 6.5PRC.
And super accurate.
We’re making cases out of .300 weatherby cases.
Neck down using a 7mm Weatherby die and finishing with the 6.5/300 die.
Every caliber I've ever used has had a DRT at least few times including the 30-30. Jack O'Conner did all that many times with a 270 a Winchester before 1960...even in Africa, and Alaska interior grizzly and proclaimed the 270 Win the best big game rifle for all except the dangerous kind. But I never owned a 270 Win, and Weatherby proclaimed the 257 Weatherby the super killer. But I've never owned one...but use the 25-06 for coyotes, rock chucks, rabbits and squirrels and found it awesome. Deer nothing special, but it worked.
Then I've seen deer and one elk drop dead with an arrow at less probably than 200 fps impact velocity, but that's fairly rare for arrows. I've found that every reasonable caliber kills with good bullet placement, some a little faster...sometimes. It's a variable, and we all have experiences with different calibers that shape opinions. I couldn't tell any difference between the 7 mm mag and the 7 Mauser, for my moderate killing ranges but stuck with the 7 mag...until I used the 338 win mag, as I preceved it to kill faster, and sold the 7mm mag.
But I reality all the game shot with either was dead...so DRT is a unimpressive statement, when the result would be dead at any rate 100 yds or drop on the spot dead with a 35 Remington or a 44-40 at close range. An old man who lived in elk country in a cabin on oinion creek, in the Blue mountains, when I was young, he killed more elk with a heavy 26" octagon barreled 1894 winchester curved steel butt plate open Buckhorn sights in the 30 WCF cartridge than anyone I've ever known. And I got to shoot it ...he was my closest neighbor 2.5 miles away, for awhile, and I learned things, gold minning, claim jumpers, hunting, that loaned out, old well used lever gun was lion and bear protection before I bought my own 16" Wnchester trapper made in USA, called 30-30 today ...and I practiced out to 400 yds with it in those days open sights, and shoot the heads off mountain grouse 170 gr flat points.. It was my favorite gun, carry it everywhere in the truck. The best gun ever...for awhile. I Still have it but can't see the sights these days. But if I could it's all the gun I needed in isolated Desolation, it killed everything I shot at at moderate ranges...as well as the 7 mm mag ..up close. The gun was a tool, it worked, no pride in owing a 30-30 these days...
Then I've seen deer and one elk drop dead with an arrow at less probably than 200 fps impact velocity, but that's fairly rare for arrows. I've found that every reasonable caliber kills with good bullet placement, some a little faster...sometimes. It's a variable, and we all have experiences with different calibers that shape opinions. I couldn't tell any difference between the 7 mm mag and the 7 Mauser, for my moderate killing ranges but stuck with the 7 mag...until I used the 338 win mag, as I preceved it to kill faster, and sold the 7mm mag.
But I reality all the game shot with either was dead...so DRT is a unimpressive statement, when the result would be dead at any rate 100 yds or drop on the spot dead with a 35 Remington or a 44-40 at close range. An old man who lived in elk country in a cabin on oinion creek, in the Blue mountains, when I was young, he killed more elk with a heavy 26" octagon barreled 1894 winchester curved steel butt plate open Buckhorn sights in the 30 WCF cartridge than anyone I've ever known. And I got to shoot it ...he was my closest neighbor 2.5 miles away, for awhile, and I learned things, gold minning, claim jumpers, hunting, that loaned out, old well used lever gun was lion and bear protection before I bought my own 16" Wnchester trapper made in USA, called 30-30 today ...and I practiced out to 400 yds with it in those days open sights, and shoot the heads off mountain grouse 170 gr flat points.. It was my favorite gun, carry it everywhere in the truck. The best gun ever...for awhile. I Still have it but can't see the sights these days. But if I could it's all the gun I needed in isolated Desolation, it killed everything I shot at at moderate ranges...as well as the 7 mm mag ..up close. The gun was a tool, it worked, no pride in owing a 30-30 these days...
Adam in WI
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Oddly enough the only two deer I ever had drop on the spot were shot on the same drive, in the same spot, with a .30-30. The second one actually landed on the first.
CaptainMal
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High shoulder shot is the "off switch".
Last year I dropped two deer DRT with little to no leg movement. One was at about 160 yards and the other 240 yards with the same 30-30. Used those 160 FTX bullets with 35 gas. of LeverRevolution.
Hit the "off switch" and it is DRT.
Last year I dropped two deer DRT with little to no leg movement. One was at about 160 yards and the other 240 yards with the same 30-30. Used those 160 FTX bullets with 35 gas. of LeverRevolution.
Hit the "off switch" and it is DRT.
My only experience neck shooting is whitetails but I have shot at least 20 of them in the neck with a rifle and none of them took a single step. I have since moved back to the lungs once I started cooking neck roasts though.
timeout
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Neck shots really come in handy when the adjoining property owner is a butthead that you would rather not have to deal with in order to retrieve your deer.
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