animalpest wrote:Or they buy a 6.5 CM and brag about how many they could have shot
that's about it . i've used the 6.5 swede for years with warm handloads and 140sst , and yeah, it kills . but 308 just hits harder with 150's . been hearing talk about the creed not performing as expected on pigs . wrong ammo choice ? i won't argue the accuracy of the creed , or it's long range ballistics . but to a certain degree it's been over-hyped . i believe all the FPS data that's given for it are obtained using a 26" barrel . factory ammo out of a 22" sporter barrel wouldn't be that impressive i reckon .
for regular sambar work 35 whelen , 9.3x62 would be my choice . i used the 9.3 on buff in the NT with 250 barnes loaded fast , which it's marginal for IMHO . 270 speers worked on pigs so long as you hit the shoulder to get good projectile expansion. 285gn round nose on feral horses/donkeys ,which have close to the same game weight as sambar i reckon, it flattened them with chest shots .relative to game weight , bigger wound channel/bore definately gives results