.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.

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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.

 

[wesfromky]

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.

How does the 6.5 K sound? I have a 6.5 S on my RSS, but Andrew posted this last night...

 

[McD18]

How does the 6.5 K sound? I have a 6.5 S on my RSS, but Andrew posted this last night...

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It sounds great to me but I haven't compared it to anything except an RC2 and RC2 mini on an AR. I shot a few of the animals without ear pro and it was fine.

I really like the overall size and weight of it on the 18" bbl, very easy to handle. I think Andrew will be better able to answer your question but I'm gonna guess the Ti polonium will be more optimized for 223 but it looks to be a bit bigger and heavier.

I threw this rig together very recently and the Hyd K was actually in stock at silencer shop so I grabbed it also anticipating I'll get into 6mm or 6.5mm in the future. But the polonium is cool because it can handle 6mm as well, not sure how it sounds with 6mm creed.

 

[np307]

Caught a knothead slipping through the pines this morning. No trouble tracking this one lol

 

[bcmntgoathunter.]

Caught a knothead slipping through the pines this morning. No trouble tracking this one lolView attachment 798785

Not making fun of you but is that a jack rabbit size deer? Or just the camera angle lol dose it still have milk on its lips?all good my man meats meat I'm sure you'll get at least a few hamburgers out of it.

 

[np307]

Not making fun of you but is that a jack rabbit size deer? Or just the camera angle lol dose it still have milk on its lips?all good my man meats meat I'm sure you'll get at least a few hamburgers out of it.

Southern riverbottom button buck. They don't get much smaller than this. Not much bigger than an average dog.

 

[bcmntgoathunter.]

Southern riverbottom button buck. They don't get much smaller than this. Not much bigger than an average dog.

Ahhh ok im used to deer like this one I got with my cross bow

 

[np307]

Ahhh ok im used to deer like this one I got with my cross bow

Cool. I hunt some other areas of the state where the deer are a little bigger but these river bottoms are fun to still hunt through. I like to brine and smoke the hams from a fawn like this.