For deer hunters who want more punch than the .25-caliber family of cartridges offers, the step step up the scale is the .264-caliber family, or 6.5mm for Europhiles. There is a lot to like about the ...

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Basically, a native American 6.5 mm. (.264 caliber) cartridge isn’t such a bad idea. Six-fives have been enormously successful in various forms in Europe for decades, so there was reason to anticipate ...

Of all the midbore rifle calibers, the .264-caliber, or 6.5-millimeter class, is the most underappreciated among deer hunters. That's probably because they fill no particular niche. The .243- and ...