Holy hell, that looks like you hit it with a howitzer.Got a chance to take two white tail does in WY with the DTAC. Pictures below from the animal taken at 350 yards. Impact velocity ~2500.
Holy hell, that looks like you hit it with a howitzer.Got a chance to take two white tail does in WY with the DTAC. Pictures below from the animal taken at 350 yards. Impact velocity ~2500.
It’s something my grandfather and father did for a lot of years between living in AK, ID and NM. My dad INSISTS it’s the way to go. Letting the old man in his 70’s have his way on a few things hasn’t hurt me any.I’ve never heard of spicing the carcass to keep the pests away. That’s pretty smart!
No picture and for a good reason! When I got home from work this evening my wife and 16 y/o daughter had just finished hanging, skinning, and cleaning the carcass up for butchering. The bullet hit a rib on entry and there was about a 1.5 inch entry hole and then a 2 inch exit in the soft tissue. Will lose a couple pounds of meat to blood shot but nothing extensive. Will use this setup again on an elk in a week or so.First kill for my 6 ARC Howa Mini Action. Used the factory 103 ELDX @ 2614 fps mv. Shot a river bottom whitetail buck on public 10 minutes before end of shooting light at about 200 yards. Hit behind onside shoulder and exited off side behind diaphragm without touching guts the way he was quartered to me. Went around 25 yards after the shot. Little blood on the ground except for the last 10 feet before it dropped. One lung had a hole and the other one was liquid and just shredded. Liver was torn in half but I did not see any bullet damage. Lots of blood on both sides of the diaphragm when gutted. Did not have anyone to help with pictures as my daughter and wife walked back to get the sled to drag the deer out while I pulled the guts out. I'll see if I can grab a few of the interior when we hang it.
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Only about 100 yard shot as I found this guy bedded just the other side of a hill I’d climbed. 6GT/110 a-tip. He made it a couple steps before piling up.
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71’ k20 350/sm465/lockers and 58 gallons of fuel
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71’ k20 350/sm465/lockers and 58 gallons of fuel
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71’ k20 350/sm465/lockers and 58 gallons of fuel
Nice buck! Is that 6 big game animals so far this year with your Howa Mini 6ARC? Sorry if that's creepy..... I have been following all the small caliber success on big game and 6 ARC build threads pretty religiously lately.......High double lung on a Muley. This is the entrance. Forgot to take one of the exit but the facia between the ribs and leg muscles on the exit side was an absolute mess so, yeah, it did the job. He ran about 20 yards after this and piled up. 108 ELD-M. 17.5" barrel 6ARC. 270ish yards.
The bullet took two whitetail does this weekend other than this and worked great on those also. The 10yo in the pics got his first big game animal with it. 260 yards from the tripod seated (tripod is a game changer!!) lung entrance liverish exit with a 50 yard run before falling over backwards.
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That's 7 total with the 6ARC so far. 4 antelope then the three deer. Fricking love this thing. Love everything about it. I could not want for anything different.Nice buck! Is that 6 big game animals so far this year with your Howa Mini 6ARC? Sorry if that's creepy..... I have been following all the small caliber success on big game and 6 ARC build threads pretty religiously lately.......
Are you using a Salmon River Solutions Arca rail to attach your rifle to a tripod? If so, where did you mount the rail? I have a Howa mini build that is very similar to yours, and I am trying to decide whether to mount an arca rail toward the front of the stock to optimize use with a bipod, or more toward the center to optimize use with a tripod.
Great pics and congrats to the young lad! (BTW You've got my favorite scope on that rifle, too...)That's 7 total with the 6ARC so far. 4 antelope then the three deer. Fricking love this thing. Love everything about it. I could not want for anything different.
I went with the tiny Atlas Pic rail. My Tripods have ball mounts that accept both Arca and Pic so it was perfect. Also works with the Gunwerks Bipod. I used the instructions I referenced in this thread. Super easy install. I used a lock nut rather than a T-nut though.
Pic Rail on VG2 fore end suggestions?
I have a VG2 on a Howa Mini barreled action. I would like to put a pic rail in the place of the fore end sling swivel to use pic mounted bipod. The adapter type rails I have tried won't work well due to the extreme curve the VG2 fore end has. Has anyone mounted a pic rail there in a manner that...rokslide.com
This is pic of how I normally set it up for shots. Elbow/funny bone notch on the rear leg is super stable out to 300yds plus. And if you know where this ridgeline is, keep your d@mn mouth shut. LOL
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