ORIGINAL: TerryM
ORIGINAL: KonaBoy
I'd go with the 6.5x55.
Kona, you hang here too? I thought you were a dedicated OTB man !!!!!! Yes I am leaning to the 6.5 as I'm also thinking its a nice round for calf moose and bears also and with 120 gr bullets its virtually identical to the 25-06 in energy and trajectory all the way out to 500 yds. I want something that is varmint legal in Southern Ontario ( so sub .277 ) but that I will also use as a deer rifle backup.
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The southern Ontario restrictian is actually the reason I have a 6.5x55. My uncle bought it for who knows what, and he always said "best gun you can buy that's legal here". When I was 14, he decided I was old enough for a rifle and he gave it to me.