If you're preparing to hunt African Plains game, what cartridge should you pick?

Welcome to the Backcountry Hunting Podcast's top three in five.

Our rapid fire five minute episode today

is on three versatile cartridges for use

on African Plains game.

Now all three are favorites of African hunters and in fact are today

presented by my good friend and professional hunter Jock Strauss of Kovas,

of Kovas Adventure Safas, Adventures Safaris.

He's consented to join us on this.

And fair warning, folks, we're going with African time on this.

So the five minute cutoff may not quite suffice. This one should be a lot of fun.

All three of these cartridges have adequate reach, but each is also quite different from the others.

We're going to present a light cartridge, a medium cartridge, and a semi-heavy

cartridge. So the first one that you told me when we're compiling our list here, Jock, was a 6.5

greed mark. It actually surprised me a little bit and we're interested to hear why but a couple of specs first it shoots

120 to 143 grain bullets

velocity ranges from about 2,650 feet per second to about 2,900 feet per second depending on bullet weight.

And it's readily available across the United States and...

And here as well. More so than in the past in Africa.

So why do you like it? I think a lot of people shoot it really well. It's got mild

recoil. I've seen quite a few clients bring suppressed 6.5 feet more as well, so the

sounds there, not bothering at all. The recoil is so low that you can really focus on where the shot goes.

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