.223 for bear, mountain goat, deer, elk, and moose.

[Formidilosus]

Twas a joke. Figured someone on here would pick up that bread crumb.

Been a long time since then.

 

[Ajsomp]

I still like painters tape for covering the muzzle. I've had others leave a residue

Gaffers tape is my personal favorite. Leaves no residue but it’s pretty durable. Also great for writing dope, labeling your Swfa turret zero etc.

 

[liv3mind]

1:7 10 inches

My 10.5 1:7 loves 73eldm. 1.3" is the best I have had from it.

 

[KHntr]

I heard on another forum that blue painters tape was like a shining warning beacon to deer because they see blue really well.

That was an epic thread.

 

[Kaleb]

I remember that. Didn't Jeff o have something to do with it? I know he was the one that kept wanting stick to post his load...lol.

That was probably about the same time I had this 250AI but for my wife. 2008-2010'ish maybe.

 

[KHntr]

I remember that. Didn't Jeff o have something to do with it? I know he was the one that kept wanting stick to post his load...lol.

That was probably about the same time I had this 250AI but for my wife. 2008-2010'ish maybe.
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Thats a fantastic pic.

Yep, that was JeffO’s thread, he didn’t want a shining blue beacon pointed at a deer from the end of the barrel before the shot……

And yep, he wanted Stick to post his 708/162 Amax load IIRC.

Pretty sure there was a link put up on ARAIG not too terribly many years ago to that thread.

 

[Pharmseller]

I remember that. Didn't Jeff o have something to do with it? I know he was the one that kept wanting stick to post his load...lol.

That was probably about the same time I had this 250AI but for my wife. 2008-2010'ish maybe.
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You have a very young wife.

 

[FredH]

Probably.

Good thing kinetic energy doesn't have anything to do with bullet expansion, tissue damage or lethality.

Without energy the bullet would remain in the case, there would be no velocity.

 

[FredH]

Yep, I frankly do not care what the kinetic energy, knockdown factor, or whatever metric is being used to measure performance at distance here other than impact velocity of the bullet.

It would seem mass and placement would be important factors.

 

[FredH]

No, But I believe He is the God father of the gun world. I only have a quarter of the toys he has, Grin!

Ha ha ha ha too funny. He would be agreeing whole heartedly with all the match bullet guys here.

 

[MeatMissile]

Thats a fantastic pic.

Yep, that was JeffO’s thread, he didn’t want a shining blue beacon pointed at a deer from the end of the barrel before the shot……

And yep, he wanted Stick to post his 708/162 Amax load IIRC.

Pretty sure there was a link put up on ARAIG not too terribly many years ago to that thread.

After that, everyone inundated the thread with pics of dead deer next blue stocked rifles, blue plaid jackets, blue jeans….

Come to think of it, until I knew better about decent hunting clothes, I hunted in blue jeans and my old combat boots.

I think its time to build a 22 Creedmoor.

 

[Pharmseller]

My second-ever Tikka, 1-10” stainless T3 in .223 Rem. My son named it Blue Lightning. Fifteen years ago or thereabouts.

 

[KHntr]

After that, everyone inundated the thread with pics of dead deer next blue stocked rifles, blue plaid jackets, blue jeans….

Come to think of it, until I knew better about decent hunting clothes, I hunted in blue jeans and my old combat boots.

I think its time to build a 22 Creedmoor.

Makes me laugh just thinking about it.
And you need a 22 Creed.

 

[packgoatguy]

I guess I forgot that outside of the rokslide community there is a lot of ignorance about using match bullets and small calibers to hunt big game... after posting the video for you guys the other day, 90% of the comments on it are down right obnoxious.

Post in thread '.223 for bear, mountain goat, deer, elk, and moose.' https://rokslide.com/forums/threads...n-goat-deer-elk-and-moose.130488/post-4492891

 

[MeatMissile]

My second-ever Tikka, 1-10” stainless T3 in .223 Rem. My son named it Blue Lightning. Fifteen years ago or thereabouts.

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That’s awesome! Bet shines like a lighthouse!

 

[FredH]

223 75 gr. Gold Dot this time. 125 yards facing my right slight quartering away, Bullet hit just under the edge of the shoulder blade just about in the middle of it's length, traveled through and broke 3 ribs making a just under 3" hole before it blasted through the bottom half of the spine doing damage to the top of the right side lung. It traveled through 6 inches of spine making a 2 inch tunnel, then breaking two ribs and making a thumb sized hole heading into the front of the shoulder blade. My hands were bloody, it was late and I was beat so I didn't skin and remove the shoulder to find the bullet. It did not make it to the hide or I would have cut it out. There appeared to be no fragmentation as I found no pieces and damage was sort of a tunnel effect. It was too warm to let him hang overnight so I took him to the cooler at the processor last night. I took a picture of the lung damage this morning.



Good damage to the top of the right lung and the meat under the neck.

Here he is hanging.



At the shot he dropped and made no movement. All in all can't complain.

 

[nm.otter]

after posting the video for you guys the other day, 90% of the comments on it are down right obnoxious.

If you have necropsy photos showing the wound channel, post them here and then link to them on YT.

 

[Matt5266]

I guess I forgot that outside of the rokslide community there is a lot of ignorance about using match bullets and small calibers to hunt big game... after posting the video for you guys the other day, 90% of the comments on it are down right obnoxious.

Post in thread '.223 for bear, mountain goat, deer, elk, and moose.' https://rokslide.com/forums/threads...n-goat-deer-elk-and-moose.130488/post-4492891

O man. Haha some of those are just funny..I would just disable the comments to your videos.

 

[Taudisio]

I guess I forgot that outside of the rokslide community there is a lot of ignorance about using match bullets and small calibers to hunt big game... after posting the video for you guys the other day, 90% of the comments on it are down right obnoxious.

Post in thread '.223 for bear, mountain goat, deer, elk, and moose.' https://rokslide.com/forums/threads...n-goat-deer-elk-and-moose.130488/post-4492891

A lot of bot posts on there. The usernames give it away. I get a lot of views out of Russia when you check the analytics on YouTube. It would be interesting to see yours too.

 

[FredH]

I guess I forgot that outside of the rokslide community there is a lot of ignorance about using match bullets and small calibers to hunt big game... after posting the video for you guys the other day, 90% of the comments on it are down right obnoxious.

Post in thread '.223 for bear, mountain goat, deer, elk, and moose.' https://rokslide.com/forums/threads...n-goat-deer-elk-and-moose.130488/post-4492891

I think there are a lot of guys who prefer to hunt with controlled expanding bullets and rifles powerful enough to make wide wound channels with that kind of bullet. That is not ignorance it is preference. Plus it did run 300 yards. I have never had a well hit elk go farther than 50 yards using 270,30-06,7MM RM, 300 WM rifles. I have had poorly hit elk run that far. Good thing you had snow.