Is the 6.5 x 55 Swede a do it all cartridge
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Comparing samples of 83 on the low end and 2829 on the high end is bound to skew your results ever so slightly.
While I'm sure numbers are not dissimilar that study appears to have been conducted in Norway...
Also if we are going off tradex and intersurplus surely there is some selection bias re: these are the guns people are getting rid of.
While I'm sure numbers are not dissimilar that study appears to have been conducted in Norway...
Also if we are going off tradex and intersurplus surely there is some selection bias re: these are the guns people are getting rid of.
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I hosted a group of northern Norwegians and a Finn a few years ago for work. Most of the group were hunters so we chatted over lunch. They said .308 and .30-06 were by far the most popular on driven or dog hunts for moose. 6.5x55’s were around but so were .270, .300 Win, 7x64, 8x57. They said 9.3’s were liked by some but not as common in their hunt groups.
It certainly appears the 6.5 is fading fast, the Swedes are selling off their 6.5's and 9.3 in favour of the 308. This is from Finland, Sweden and Norway (a study on lead and copper deposited in the environment) Several things stand out, one is the there is little to no difference in the number of shoots per moose between 6.5 and 7.62mm (the 9.3 has a slight advantage) and they shoot a lot of Moose, 166k in one season. Norway, Sweden and Finland aren't that much larger in area than BC but they shoot 8x as many moose, giving some idea of how many are fed to wolves and bears and how many people are deprived of a full freezer as a result.
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Man, there's a thought. I like the way about 60% of their take is calves and yearlings, mimicing natural mortality, and there really is no emphasis on big trophy bulls.
And you'll have to brain wipe us all once again, since between 6.5mm up to 9.3mm there's really no difference on number of shots needed per kill haha. Course, one could say those are mostly smaller moose and not at 500 yards, true. But still.
not only forestry but they have less wolves and grizzly bears and way less hunters than we have there is less natural predation than we have. they mostly do not hunt individually and i do remember in norway most of the hunting clubs are paying eliminators to take care of their tags as less people are hunting. in sweden and finland where i hunted moose and boars it is really a social event (including great party and dinner after hunting times) and people are sharing meat and works, for norway i did not hunt big game but again population was aging and less socially accepted to hunt let alone owning guns ... despite the great movei link i posted.
the same is coming to us.
the same is coming to us.
BC has maybe 200,000 Bears and some of them are killing a Moose calf every day in the Spring.
It's no accident that R4-01 has a Sky High Bear population and a crashing Moose Population. And it's the only area with actual Shiras moose.
It's no accident that R4-01 has a Sky High Bear population and a crashing Moose Population. And it's the only area with actual Shiras moose.
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I happen to stumble upon my tikka in 6.5 swede and so far it has done everything I have asked but on the other hand so has my .308 I just find the 6.5 more pleasant to shoot and lighter to carry so it wins
Am I missing something in this display? Is there caliber by caliber data on "number of shoots per moose between 6.5 and 7.62mm (the 9.3 has a slight advantage)"? I would find that very interesting and pretty much on point as to how effective the 6.5 is on moose compared with other calibers.
Thanks, MiG25. That's very interesting and informative. It would seem to bear directly on whether the 6.5x55 is sufficient for moose, and it would appear to be (if that were ever in doubt). It would be even better if cartridges, rather than calibers, were analyzed. For the 6.5 caliber, we can be pretty certain that the vast majority of these would be 6.5x55. For the 7.62, most would probably be 30-06, but a fair number could be lesser (in power) 30-calibers like the 308 Win. or other 30-caliber cartridges--30-40 Krag (with a number of Krag–Jørgensen rifles still in use in Scandinavia), 303 Brit., even 30-30. I'd love to see a 6.5x55 vs 30-06 comparison on number of shots on moose.
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You're right. I guess it was more the American Krag-Jorgensens that were chambered in 30-40 Krag.
