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

[Shraggs]

12pt whitetail, just this afternoon. I don't have full autopsy pics yet because I let my deer hang for a day or two before butchering. I'll update once I get the skin off.
124yds, extreme downhill angle. I was 12 feet up a tree, the deer was at the bottom of a VERY steep hill.
2517fps impact velocity from an 18" T3x, 77gr TMK
He ploughed about 20yds with no front legs, dead in maybe 5 seconds.

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Love those unique bucks! Nice

 

[Matt5266]

12pt whitetail, just this afternoon. I don't have full autopsy pics yet because I let my deer hang for a day or two before butchering. I'll update once I get the skin off.
124yds, extreme downhill angle. I was 12 feet up a tree, the deer was at the bottom of a VERY steep hill.
2517fps impact velocity from an 18" T3x, 77gr TMK
He ploughed about 20yds with no front legs, dead in maybe 5 seconds.

Entrance:
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Exit:
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Sweet buck! Very unique

 

[McD18]

Joined the .223 club after reading this thread earlier this fall. I have the Rokslide special T3X Lite chopped to 18" with an OCL hydrogen k 6.5 mm. I meant to buy the SS but accidentally got the blued barrel from europtic so I rattle canned it.

I ordered some AAC 556 w/ Sierra TMKs but the rounds were not concentric and group size sucked (1.8 moa - 8 shots).

Hornady 73 gr ELD-M groups at .8 moa (8 shots) so I rolled with this.

Day 1
-Shot an aoudad ewe from about 80 yds, she did a 180 and died about 10 yds later.
-Shot a Jake at 20 yds (rio grande turkey)
-Shot a cull buck at 100 yds, DRT

Day 2
-2 x javelina at 100 yds, DRT
-Shot an 8 pt at 200 yds quartering to, ran about 30 yds and died

No autopsy pics. Deer and aoudad all the same, small entry and meat loss on the front shoulder, far shoulder good to go. No blood trail whatsoever.