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| Originally Posted by applepie
i forgot to ask, errr rogue kangaroo attacks in your home? they actually breakinto/enter your house? a 6.5mm will stop a kangaroo? i guess its more just the noise that scares it.
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No kangaroos don't break into your house (I wish I'd never started this now).
Will a 6.5mm x55mm stop a kangaroo? Mate it would stop a moose, but along with Polar Bears, we don't have them either - but we do have Fallow deer.
The 6.5mm was the Swedish military calibre for years, I know that when we used a sub-calibre device in the 84mm Carl Gustav, (in Army Reserve here), it contained a 6.5mm tracer projectile in a necked down 7.62mm NATO rimless cartridge, so if they don't still use it, then they did until fairly recently.
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I actually once drilled two big Bennets wallabies with the same round, took a side on shot at one I could see through my 6X scope, at about 200m, through a gap in thick scrub. When I got up there, presto, 2 dead wallabies, they must have been standing side by side.
I bought the Swedish M96 Mauser as military surplus about 15 yrs ago, it was still full wood, date stamped 1903. I used it for about 12 months, then had it sporterised; shortened and crowned the barrel, cut & shut the bolt handle so it wouldn't hit the scope, tapped the receiver for and fitted a scope, fitted a kevlar thumb hole stock and floated the barrel. I loaded a couple of hundred cartridges with 110 gr projectiles and minimum wt of powder (30gr?) as opposed to the big grunty factory load, with a 140 gr projectile. She shot like a dream, hardly any recoil, not too noisy and very accurate. Fired a 1cm group at 100m (off a rest), and two of the three holes were a figure-8, it was only that I pulled one of the shots when sighting her in.
Got rid of it, along with my bolt action variable choke 12-gauge Mossberg and my .22 Brno when the new gun laws came in after the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre, I just didn't want that stuff in the house anymore after that.
Richard M