350 legend/ 223 / 6.5 Grendel - bolt action

[omicron1792]

Placed perfectly as in almost perfectly broadside and don't expect an exit hole generally. Yes with bigger bullets easier to track because you will more likely get a blood trail and if you don't get a center lungs hit you have penetration enough to break big bones on the far side while going through any organs in it's way. Hard quartering shots are doable, shots I won't take with either my 22 ARC or my 223 running Eldm's. Which by the way my 22 ARC is going out this afternoon and will most likely take a deer. Would I expect a young kid to have the self control to take only the shots the 22 ARC is good at? No.

There are pages and pages and pages of information that show that what you say is incorrect

 

[FredH]

There are pages and pages and pages of information that show that what you say is incorrect

Not true there are pages and pages of dead animals hit almost perfectly and stories where animals went farther than expected. Funny how people rarely report lost animals.

 

[omicron1792]

Not true there are pages and pages of dead animals hit almost perfectly and stories where animals went farther than expected. Funny how people rarely report lost animals.agaib

Much much more impetus for people that make the switch to small caliber because of the thread to post their losses. That argument just doesn’t hold water.

The distance run trends toward less than monos and larger calibers.

 

[Bluefish]

Another large cal state whitetail hunter (35 cal min) here. I would be using a 6 arc if I could, but I can’t. I think from looking at the data, the 22 arc is about the best AR based cartridge, with the 6 arc, and then the grendle. All the same case, just smaller calibers, so velocity is higher. Imho the case doesn’t have enough capacity for the 6.5. Makes you run the lower grain weights and thus lower bc to get any velocity.

The 6 arc was designed to equal the 308 with the 103/105’s and the numbers suggest that the 22 outruns it by a little. I like the idea of the 6 as I can use it in Colorado for elk as well.

350L are super common around here and two of the guys I hunt with use them. Both have had kills out to 200 yards and take a deer or two every year with them.