Nuts
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I have a 6.5 cm shooting 129grain bergers. Another shooting 129gr Hornady whitetail. Both have been very deadly on deer with no issues. They either dropped in there tracks or under 10yds. I have one set up with 143 gr eldx and a suppressor. Used on a recent Caribou hunt. A junior wanted to use a suppressor so I gave him I let him use this set up. He sat with me and shot a doe at a little over 300yds. It ran towards us. He shot again. It then turned and ran into the woods. I searched the field. No blood that I could find. It was a turnup field with large leaves I should have seen it easily. I walked into the woods where it went. It was dead 100yds inside. Shot number 1 was tucked perfect behind the should and exited about the same. Size and location. Shot number 2 was back 6 inches and exited tighter to the shoulder. Exist and entry similar. When we gutted it the inside were a big jello mess. But had we not been on a field I am not sure we could have tracked it thru the woods. Anyone else ever see this? I was a big critic of the 6.5 but have changed sides. The other bullets have been great. ELDX not so much
