6mm /.243 hunting success on Big Game

[SloppyJ]

Crocs? Flip flops? Just socks? Barefoot? What are we talking about here?

Hey dudes but i had my wool socks on.

 

[PC356]

240 lb TX Hill Country sow. 220 ydish, 6 ARC 108 ELD M, 16” bolt gun, thermal. Bang, flop, behind the ear. Thru and thru.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Just hidden. He did tumble quite a ways but no damage occurred. But check out those growths on the velvet.
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Probably a cryptorchid deer, that is a bit more prevalent on kodiak for some reason. I got one too:

 

[Taudisio]

Probably a cryptorchid deer, that is a bit more prevalent on kodiak for some reason. I got one too:View attachment 799315

I love velvet euros. Is that the deer’s natural/preserved velvet, or some “flocking” type from the taxi?

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

I love velvet euros. Is that the deer’s natural/preserved velvet, or some “flocking” type from the taxi?

Natural. The taxi cut them at the bases and sent them out for freeze drying and then reattached. I imagine it would become fairly cost prohibitive with larger racks.

 

[PC356]

180ish lb TX Hill Country Hog. 6 ARC, factory 103 gr ELD X this time. Howa Mini 18” PBB 1-7 barrel. Clean exit and 80 yds roughly.

 

[Mw01313]

WT doe. .243 win pushing a 95gr Combined Technologies (NBT) 2750 at the muzzle. Lung shot at 80 yds. Good blood and lung fragments at location she was shot. Left a blood trail Stevie wonder could follow. Took this one to processer and didn't hang around to look at internal damage. Feel pretty confident saying it was enough. Dead within 15 seconds after about a 50 yd run.

 

[General RE LEE]

First deer with my 22” barrel Howa Mini 6 ARC. 108 ELDM handloads 2675 FPS.

Doe was 250 yards. Double lung pass through with good entry and exit holes.

I’ll probably hunt with this little rifle exclusively. I watched the hit and exactly where the deer ran back in the woods.

 

[PC356]

First deer with my 22” barrel Howa Mini 6 ARC. 108 ELDM handloads 2675 FPS.

Doe was 250 yards. Double lung pass through with good entry and exit holes.

I’ll probably hunt with this little rifle exclusively. I watched the hit and exactly where the deer ran back in the woods.


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First deer with my 22” barrel Howa Mini 6 ARC. 108 ELDM handloads 2675 FPS.

Doe was 250 yards. Double lung pass through with good entry and exit holes.

I’ll probably hunt with this little rifle exclusively. I watched the hit and exactly where the deer ran back in the woods.


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Nice, enjoyin the hell outta these little Howas myself.
Well done.

 

[Unckebob]

My daughter took her first deer (a doe) this weekend. Since she is not an experienced shot, I gave her my Savage 6ARC 110 with a barrel cut down to 18." The Hornady 108g eldm load did just fine at about 2450fps at impact. Double lung pass through.

 

[brushape]

Size large wild boar shot with a 70 grain hammer hunter leaving the muzzle at 3450, hit at the shoulder to neck junction and dropped at the shot. Bullet recovered under the far side skin the bullet destroyed the spine and basically liquified the entire neck

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[Poe]

Elk, 108gr ELD-M, 2,900’ish fps impact.

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Probably not the best place to ask this but I am in the process of putting together a 6 creed. I’m in Canada so a suppressor is not an option. I ordered the barrel threaded so it’s an option but I don’t know if a brake is worth putting on the rifle. Would the loss in recoil in an already light kicking cartridge be worth the extra muzzle blast. I wear ear pro when target shooting but it rarely gets put in when out hunting.

 

[MEdude]

Probably not the best place to ask this but I am in the process of putting together a 6 creed. I’m in Canada so a suppressor is not an option. I ordered the barrel threaded so it’s an option but I don’t know if a brake is worth putting on the rifle. Would the loss in recoil in an already light kicking cartridge be worth the extra muzzle blast. I wear ear pro when target shooting but it rarely gets put in when out hunting.

For me the experience of a brake on my .223 when I first got the rifle was a net negative, even with hearing protection. I could feel a pressure poof in my face with each shot, which was a distractor. I was better off without the brake, with such modest recoil.

As the .223 to 6 creed is not exactly apples for apples, ymmv.

Also, I know this is anecdotal perception, not data driven measured results. Just my experience.

 

[E.Shell]

Probably not the best place to ask this but I am in the process of putting together a 6 creed. I’m in Canada so a suppressor is not an option. I ordered the barrel threaded so it’s an option but I don’t know if a brake is worth putting on the rifle. Would the loss in recoil in an already light kicking cartridge be worth the extra muzzle blast. I wear ear pro when target shooting but it rarely gets put in when out hunting.

I'd say you lose more than you gain.

Bad enough with a bare muzzle, the sound pressure level of a rifle with a brake is well above damaging levels - if you shoot a braked rifle without ear protection, you will remember it.

Does anyone have any experience with a 'linear compensator' that directs more of the blast forward? Possibly that's an option to benefit from the threaded muzzle.

For me the experience of a brake on my .223 when I first got the rifle was a net negative, even with hearing protection. I could feel a pressure poof in my face with each shot, which was a distractor. I was better off without the brake, with such modest recoil.

As the .223 to 6 creed is not exactly apples for apples, ymmv.

Also, I know this is anecdotal perception, not data driven measured results. Just my experience.

My experience as well. Even ear protection doesn't take away all of the effect. I've been around a lot of shooting with brakes, bare muzzles and suppressors and have my share of rifles. Nothing I own has a brake.

 

[General RE LEE]

501 yards

6mm ARC

22” barrel Howa Mini

108 ELDM handloads muzzle velocity 2675 fps

Dropped this doe on the spot. The 6mm ARC is my #1 rifle now.

 

[np307]

Probably not the best place to ask this but I am in the process of putting together a 6 creed. I’m in Canada so a suppressor is not an option. I ordered the barrel threaded so it’s an option but I don’t know if a brake is worth putting on the rifle. Would the loss in recoil in an already light kicking cartridge be worth the extra muzzle blast. I wear ear pro when target shooting but it rarely gets put in when out hunting.

Not a 6 creed, but on my .223 bolt gun I have a brake since I don't have a can yet. I have never put ear plugs in when hunting because I hunt thick woods and stuff happens fast. I shot a deer last Monday with the .223 and it rocked my left ear. 2 days I couldn't hear well from it and I still have a slight ringing. Never again.

 

[LostWapiti]

Not a 6 creed, but on my .223 bolt gun I have a brake since I don't have a can yet. I have never put ear plugs in when hunting because I hunt thick woods and stuff happens fast. I shot a deer last Monday with the .223 and it rocked my left ear. 2 days I couldn't hear well from it and I still have a slight ringing. Never again.

No brakes!



Been burned too many times. “I’ll definitely make sure to put in ear pro”

 

[IDbrushswimmer]

Not a 6 creed, but on my .223 bolt gun I have a brake since I don't have a can yet. I have never put ear plugs in when hunting because I hunt thick woods and stuff happens fast. I shot a deer last Monday with the .223 and it rocked my left ear. 2 days I couldn't hear well from it and I still have a slight ringing. Never again.

Don’t be surprised if it never goes away!

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

109eldm report: large bodied mulie buck for the woman, 320y. He was quartered to, shot entered font point of shoulder, good upsetting, severed windpipe totally off at the lungs, heavy trauma top lobes of offside lung. Bullet exited back half of offside shoulder, and ended up right under the hide.

Anymore with this one? I got a box of 500 sitting here waiting for my PVA order which will be a little bit still.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

For me the experience of a brake on my .223 when I first got the rifle was a net negative, even with hearing protection. I could feel a pressure poof in my face with each shot, which was a distractor.

I think this is brake dependent, I never felt any pressure as a shooter with MBM brakes. I did notice it with a PVA jet blast.