If speed is what you like in your sporting firearms, speed is what you are going to get out of the newest rifle cartridge from Weatherby. The company is so proud of the speed generated by this cartridge that it’s branding it as “the fastest production 6.5mm there is.”
The shotgun bucked against my shoulder and the clay target disappeared in cloud of orange and black dust. At that moment, a smile came to my face. Not because the shot was something spectacular — it wasn’t — but because it was the first clay target I have broken since having shoulder surgery in July.
After reading my Dec. 24 column about ice fishing, Doug Thayer shot me an email asking “why no mention of Cave Lake in Ely?”
