1st African animal

Graham I guarantee you that the 6.5 will do fine on both the water buck and the sable especially the sable. If on several of your first animals you have luck with the 6.5 I'd stick with the 6.5 for everything. With the waterbuck and blue wildebeest I personally wouldn't shoot at anything over 175 m using the 6.5. The Nyala was thick and heavy 180 pounds on the hoof. the SCI measure is filling out paperwork . I will know more then . here they are getting it ready for my photoshoot. I'm having it mounted on felt. the face so beautifully colored in person. I feel so blessed. Saw so many Kudu. I get to shoot an Impala for free the meat is going to the church.

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Graham I guarantee you that the 6.5 will do fine on both the water buck and the sable especially the sable. If on several of your first animals you have luck with the 6.5 I'd stick with the 6.5 for everything. With the waterbuck and blue wildebeest I personally wouldn't shoot at anything over 175 m using the 6.5. The Nyala was thick and heavy 180 pounds on the hoof. the SCI measure is fill out paperwork . I will know more then .
I hear ya! But i do want to use the 9.3 as I bought it to use as an African Classic. And we could bump into a cranky Buff. I will be using the 6.5 on more animals now I know your success with the ELD X
 
I hear ya! But i do want to use the 9.3 as I bought it to use as an African Classic. And we could bump into a cranky Buff. I will be using the 6.5 on more animals now I know your success with the ELD X
Oh I fully understand taking an African classic enjoy
 
Well the guess was way off on the Nyala . It was around 230 pounds.
 
Congrats on the animals and bullet performance. My go to rifle for deer sized animals is a 6.5 x 55 Swedish Mauser. I've been seriously considering trying some of the 143 Gr ELD bullets to see what they'll do in my rifles. Please post all of the recovered bullet photos and data you can. Thanks.
 
Congrats on the animals and bullet performance. My go to rifle for deer sized animals is a 6.5 x 55 Swedish Mauser. I've been seriously considering trying some of the 143 Gr ELD bullets to see what they'll do in my rifles. Please post all of the recovered bullet photos and data you can. Thanks.
The bullets on the impala just went all the way through. No more in the salt but it's a hundred percent my doing I really want a nice size blue wildebeest and passed up on many other or expensive animals the Outfitters have offered me because the wildebeest have been elusive. They even offered me a massive kudu bull. Everyone in the world is a different type of Hunter I don't need to go out and kill something every time to have a good Hunt I am addicted 2 this place. All hunts I have had even the ones I came back with no animals were incredible. So to repeat myself I have no more in the salt but I'm as happy as I can be. I personally don't know anything about 2 Swedish Mauser but if you can approach the velocities of the creedmoor you will be very happy.
 
Both 143 grain ELD-x bullets that were recovered weighed in the 90 to 93 grain range.
 

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