Using 6.5X55 Sweed for Moose

Thanks for all the comments! I’ll see what I can find in the 140 grain. Most moose we see are 100-250 yards so I’ll try to keep it in that range. I’ll play with different loads.

You are all very helpful, a great site!
 
Myself I prefer heavy for caliber bullets for moose, bear and bison… but that is me!
 
My old hunting partner, Bert, uses his little Rem 600 in 358 Win for everything up here including sheep. His wife does the same with her old sporterized Model 96 loaded with 140 gr Partitions. Marg and I were beside her when she decked a nice moose one Fall with a single round into the lungs from around 30 yards or so.

Her shot was perfect, the moose ran hard for about twenty feet, then was down.

Ted
 
I have been shooting 6.5 x 55 for years; I would stay within 300 yards with the heavier bullets, 140 if you think you are going to be shooting out to 400.
 
I had read at some point that more moose have been taken with the 6.5x55 than any other cartridge... I believe that was due to European hunters?
 
Lefty #### said:
Gheesh everyone is using glorified target bullets to kill moose with their 6.5 Creed’s!

Why would the 6.5x55 loaded with actual hunting bullets not be enough?!?!?!
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ELD-M isn't a glorified target bullet...it's an ACTUAL target bullet. People do that because all the fancy PRS shooters use a certain kind of ammunition so that means it's the best.

He will eventually post here about a bullet failure. Using match ammo for hunting is ridiculous, but people do it all the time.
 
Mr.Rigpig said:
I had read at some point that more moose have been taken with the 6.5x55 than any other cartridge... I believe that was due to European hunters?
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If so, that would be thanks to Swedish hunters, not Europe in general. Scandinavia, the Baltic countries and Russia are really the only ones over there that have a sizeable moose population, with Sweden having the densest population.

But that statement is sort of like the one we hear here about the 30-30 having killed more moose and deer than any other cartridge. I'm not sure that still applies nor are there any statistical numbers to back that up.
 
Hitzy said:
I'd be more inclined to load a 130/140 bonded at higher velocities then the 160 if you are regularly taking cracks out to 400.
Those 160s are great up close, just a bit of a morter at 400.
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I can relate. The Hornady factory round nose 160s in my 1901 M96 is giving me accurately 4" high on 100 m and 8 mm high on 150 m.

But if your within these parameters that thing travels right through from tail to head!
 
BigUglyMan said:
ELD-M isn't a glorified target bullet...it's an ACTUAL target bullet. People do that because all the fancy PRS shooters use a certain kind of ammunition so that means it's the best.

He will eventually post here about a bullet failure. Using match ammo for hunting is ridiculous, but people do it all the time.
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What they are is heavy for caliber cup and core bullets. What did people use before bonded bullets and monos?

A month or so I watched one of these rediculous bullets enter a Roosevelt elk sturnum and give it a new bung hole. And then a second one pass thru on a broadside shot. Rediculous is right!
 
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BigUglyMan said:
ELD-M isn't a glorified target bullet...it's an ACTUAL target bullet. People do that because all the fancy PRS shooters use a certain kind of ammunition so that means it's the best.

He will eventually post here about a bullet failure. Using match ammo for hunting is ridiculous, but people do it all the time.
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Normally I would agree with you on this, but the 123g eld-m has some magic in the 6.5 Grendel! 200yards on a moose, pass through and no bullet fragments and 3 Alberta deer. All pass through shots. No tracking of animals. Before this year, I barely any faith in the grendel, but that combo is devastating. Dont knock it till you try it. Blackeyboy has even more proof of that combo. Eld-m for the win :)
 
Slimbo said:
What they are is heavy for caliber cup and core bullets. What did people use before bonded bullets and monos?

A month or so I watched one of these rediculous bullets enter a Roosevelt elk sturnum and give it a new bung hole. And then a second one pass thru on a broadside shot. Rediculous is right!
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The M in ELD-M literally stands for match. You're referring to the ELD-X, which has a significantly thicker jacket.
 
bearkilr said:
The M in ELD-M literally stands for match. You're referring to the ELD-X, which has a significantly thicker jacket.
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Plenty of evidence out there of game being whacked by target bullets (eldm, amax, bergers, TMK, scenar). They’re basically heavy cup and core bullets and If not travelling at warp speed work just as well as most bullets marketed for hunting.
 
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Slimbo said:
Plenty of evidence out there of game being whacked by target bullets (eldm, amax, bergers, TMK, scenar). They’re basically heavy cup and core bullets and If not travelling at warp speed work just as well as most bullets marketed for hunting.
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What makes them "heavy" cup and core? The thin jacket? Dissect an old Silvertip or Corelokt, then a Berger or AMax.

Plenty of game wounded with guys using target bullets, it just doesn't see print. Use proper bullets and stop worrying so much about ballistics.
 
bearkilr said:
What makes them "heavy" cup and core? The thin jacket? Dissect an old Silvertip or Corelokt, then a Berger or AMax.

Plenty of game wounded with guys using target bullets, it just doesn't see print. Use proper bullets and stop worrying so much about ballistics.
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The weight... is what usually makes things heavy. Plenty of game wounded? You've tried these bullets yourself? Results?
A proper bullet indeed. Fit exactly for the purpose intended.

R.
 
It’s all about the speed that those bullets are being driven, drive them super fast and chances are greater that they will fall apart, drive them at moderate velocity and chances are they will stay together especially if you stay away from here m large bones!
So I think that if you have a rifle that drives bullet real fast(think magnums) then use a sturdier bullets, or heavy for caliber bullet! That’s my theory lol and I will stick to it hahaha
 
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