I once owned four of them. The first mule deer I ever shot field-dressed at 254 pounds, and I shot him at about 200 yards with a Norwegian Krag in 6.5X55 with a Sierra 140-grain bullet. I thought I'd missed at first, because the bullet kicked up dust beyond the deer. He was running when I shot, and took about three more bounds before piling up.

One of my hunting buddies killed two mulies with one shot once from his Swedish Mauser carbine. He shot a buck and did not see the doe that was standing about 10 yards behind the buck. When we went over to start dressing the buck, we discovered the doe that the same bullet had killed! It was a 160-grain Hortnady round-nose.

Needless to say, the 6.5X55 is plenty rifle for anything in North America if the right bullets are used, up to the brown bears, but I'd prefer a larger caliber for the big bears!!