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    .223, 6mm, and 6.5 failures on big game

    Those are good points. IMO, the majority of "bullet failures" people talk about are placement failures, or an animal reaction after the shot that didn't meet their preconceived notions, or pulling a bullet out of a dead animal that didn't look like their preconceived notion of what a bullet...
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    .223, 6mm, and 6.5 failures on big game

    I was wondering if the muscle was so adrenaline tensed it managed to "stop" the bullet. The lack of penetration seemed unbelievable, but I guess it's not(?). FWIW, he never blamed the bullet or cartridge, just chalked it up as weird, which is probably the correct answer. Now, if I had the same...
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    .223, 6mm, and 6.5 failures on big game

    Years ago my neighbors were after a moose they'd wounded the night before. They eventually spotted it bedded in some willows and went and killed it. I happened to be passing by when they had just finished it. Later he told me that when they came up on it, he shot it in the neck and later found...
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    .223, 6mm, and 6.5 failures on big game

    I think this about sums it up in a reasonable way. I've certainly seen no blood trails from 30 caliber bullets (still recovered the animals). To me, the bottom line is probably that, yes, you're more likely to get a blood trail from a larger diameter, deeper penetrating bullet, but blood trail...
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    Best bear defense ammo? & New Hornady Backcountry Defense/DGH?

    Interesting. When did that happen? Maybe the same bear? This is that bear's skull. I took a couple of pics the next morning before we headed out. This was this year, October 30th. Probably about an 8' fairly mature boar. From his story, it sounded like it might have been shot right where my...
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    Best bear defense ammo? & New Hornady Backcountry Defense/DGH?

    Speaking of bullets skipping off a hard object... A couple of guys in another party had to shoot and kill a charging brown bear when I was on Kodiak. He was telling me about it that evening. He said his first shot was with his scope cover still on. Said he hit it in the head and the bear...
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    Best bear defense ammo? & New Hornady Backcountry Defense/DGH?

    Those are probably good points. They're pretty hard, so I can imagine they might deflect more easily if hitting something hard at an angle, relative to a hardcast, which I imagine might conform to the shape better and continue through. Probably won't ever need them, but if I do, hopefully...
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    Best bear defense ammo? & New Hornady Backcountry Defense/DGH?

    Good question. I don't recall for sure, but I don't think it's exposed. I might have kept a few. I'll check. The base -is- exposed. These are some examples. All of these were shot into stacked 2x6s. Not sure how they'd differ penetration wise in an animal, but from my past experience, probably...
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    Best bear defense ammo? & New Hornady Backcountry Defense/DGH?

    I'm sure it works fine, but probably more of the latter. FWIW, the cheap Federal FMJ 147 FP penetrates as well or better than any of the 147 hardcast bullets I've loaded. I just use those now. Can use most of the hardcast bullets I have for practice over time.
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    What would have happened if I would have shot this round?

    This ⬆️ ...now that you've confirmed it chambers normally. Happens with my 223 occasionally. Gasses might not be good for the chamber, but nothing catastrophic occurs.
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    Ultralight Ultralight Rifles

    I think they both weigh 1 oz. I didn't see an advantage to going with the Taccom because I already had buffers on hand. I didn't use a reduced power spring but that would be interesting to try. As it is though, it requires very little gas to function so I'm not sure what would happen with a...
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    Ultralight Ultralight Rifles

    An ultralight gasser is actually super easy. Follow the first two builds in this thread. Use an Aero or other lightweight upper, aluminum bolt carrier (I like the DSA), adjustable gas block, the same stock as build #2 and pull the weights out of the buffer. Mine is 3# 10oz. Could pretty easily...
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    Ultralight Ultralight Rifles

    Similar for me. I was thinking 22 BR or 6mm BR just to use the .478 bolt...but I rarely have to shoot beyond 300 yards so it just doesn't make much practical sense. And I now seem to have a decent 88 ELDM load that should be at 1,800 fps at 500 yards. I'm thinking this barrel might do well...
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    Ultralight Ultralight Rifles

    Solo 300
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    Ultralight Ultralight Rifles

    Great question! I've had a lot of rifles come and go over time, but the current survivors ready to go, other than Solos, are Tikka Superlites in 223 and 30-06 and my favorite, a Kimber Montana in 308. None of those have come out of the safe for a minimum of two years now (the Kimber is really...
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    Ultralight Ultralight Rifles

    E6000 is actually what I use. Works well. Have tried liquid tape and silicone as well. Liquid tape is okay, the silicone didn't work well. Maybe if it was thinned and penetrated the into the weave more it might work.
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    Ultralight Ultralight Rifles

    Thanks for the thought on this. My biggest problem with the 2.5-10 is using it on 10x as the eye box gets too critical for me. Just messed with strelok a little and I can get the reticle to be pretty close out to 400 yards using 8x. Falls apart a little beyond that, but I rarely shoot further...
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    Ultralight Ultralight Rifles

    I'm pretty sure there are multiple mounting options included. Taudisio???
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    Ultralight Ultralight Rifles

    This is what Taudisio is referring to: https://www.primaryarms.com/primary-arms-slx-5x-microprism-with-red-illuminated-acss-aurora-556-308-reticle-yard
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    Ultralight Ultralight Rifles

    I don't have a ton of experience with red dots, but I'd think 150ish would be reasonable. That's me thinking I've made shots out to 280ish on 2x pretty easily. 1/2 the magnification and half the distance sounds reasonable. And to add: If 150 -is- an upper limit, maybe 200, that would be cutting...

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