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Plenty elk fallen to 6.5X55 caliber
The 6.5x55SE has been THE elk-hunting rifle since 1895, and in spite of all the newcomers, still takes many thousands of elk every year in Norway, Sweden and Finland. Premium ammunition from Norma will never be cheap, but then she won't be shooting hundreds of rounds a year, and it beats the almighty bejabbers out of anything made in the USA, mainly because of the fear of litigation posed by US shooters blowing up their hundred and twenty year old Carl Gustavs*. Oddly enough, a former buddy of mine in Normark, used nothing but his dad's m/38 short rifle, based on a 1906 Carl Gustaf, for his entire career as a game warden, and reckoned at one time that between him and his dad they had taken around 5000 elk over sixty years - with the same rifle.
*AAMOI, I've never heard of ANY Carl Gustaf-made rifle blowing up using factory ammunition.
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