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Gidday Guys
thanks for the input about the barrel length on the 264 winmag there Rapier. I have always had a thing about the idea of a 6.5-06. You see i have heard that the magnum cartridges are just a lot of noise until you go to heavy for calibre projectiles and now when you say that you get nothing until you have the longer barrel it has sort of made up my mind for an alpine rifle. 6.5-06 it is.
The magnum would be good for alpine work if I could get away with a 24" barrel but I don't need the extra length getting hung up when I am crawling around an ice face looking for tahr or chamois. Also either of these are knocked over with 140 gr hot cors in the boiler room. At the moment I am using the 30-06 which handles the job easily but when you drop down the hill a bit you run across wallabies and bunnies and hares who need to be shot as well and it may be that an 85gr hollow point is the answer.
Hey Evan03 maybe this would outperform your 25-06. Would love the oportunity to try and see which would be the better on a tough animal like tahr. A friend of mine uses a 25-06 on them and it took him 5 shots to drop one at 432 metres measured with a leica 900 rf two weeks ago.
Maybe you should come over and show him how its done. I'm sure you would have a great time. Just stirring it up
Regards Hamish
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