I am more anxious now than ever to try my 25-35 on deer.The RB1 and the 1800's rolling block Remington: Note that 100grs at 2350 is the same as 25-35 performance. At this velocity meat damage is minimised, penetration is excellent, it has sufficient range for bushveld hunting (most shots below 150 yards) and one gets reliable performance from conventional construction bullets." Ideal is regarded as around 2300 to 2400ft/s. At this velocity it is adequate for our most common small antelope the impala but it is also capable of handling slightly larger animals such as blesbok and in a pinch Hartbeest or Njala.Ī little aside here: A "bushveld calibre" is a calibre that throws a bullet at low velocity. " In essence in the SA application, it is used as a small game bushveld cartridge with the 100gr bullet at about 2350ft/s. Too many americans think you need to a 30-06 to kill a deer "humanely". The 30-30 should be a much better caliber in the little Martini and the 25-35 would be perfect. It kicked like a beast, though, because the gun was so light. There was no problem loading and unloading it. The Martini had originally been chambered in. I purchased a small Australian Martini for my son and we both shot it quite a bit before he traded it toward a. will understand the magic of this little cartridge. People who fall in love with small rifles such as. Rifles for this calibre are either built on the mini actions or alternatively people simply buy a 223 and rebarrel it. Many people obtained these rifles under the pretext that it is for the wife or children (and the rifle is truly excellent for this purpose) and then fall in love with it and before long it is their preferred rifle.
With the lighter bullets the cartridge can be used as a plains country springbok calibre if shots are kept below 300 yards. This expanded its use to non-reloaders and increased its popularity further. There is probably no other wildcat, which has seen as wide application as this one in Africa and it grew to such an extent that one of our larger ammunition manufacturers started producing factory ammunition for it. Note, the cartridge is not just short it has a small case-head meaning you actually use the small bolt, not just a short action with a standard diameter bolt. It also has notably less muzzle blast than many of the “standard” calibres (243, 308 etc.) Many people have fallen in love with these small “sexy” rifles and the 6X45 with its low recoil is perfect for this application. The beauty of this cartridge is that you can build very small light rifles on the mini actions (the Zastava mini action has been the action of choice). At this velocity meat damage is minimised, penetration is excellent, it has sufficient range for bushveld hunting (most shots below 150 yards) and one gets reliable performance from conventional construction bullets. In essence in the SA application, it is used as a small game bushveld cartridge with the 100gr bullet at about 2350ft/s. This cartridge has become quite popular in South Africa as a small game cartridge, mainly I believe because our local gun magazine has written some glowing eulogies to it. Today in the US this cartridge is relegated to the occasional varminter. The cartridge could not compete with the 308 Win in match competition though and in the benchrest arena it was replaced by the 6mm PPC. In 1973 the cartridge set a new IBS 200yard record of 0.3062”. The cartridge was also quite popular in NRA match competitions. The cartridge will launch 70 and 75gr bullets at 3000ft/s and the 100 gr bullet at 2400ft/s. Initially it was quite popular as a benchrest and varmint calibre in the US (varminters liked the reduced winddrift as opposed to the 22 calibres). This wildcat first appeared in 1965 shortly after Remington launched the 223 as a sporting cartridge.
The 6x45 is a wildcat created by necking up the 223 Remington to 6mm (.243). This is another wildcat come good here in Africa.