6mm /.243 hunting success on Big Game

[slatebuilder]

Did someone ask about traditional soft points a few pages back? We did not take many pictures of the break down. A storm blew up as we started working, so we worked quickly. My daughter shot this cow with her 240 Weatherby mag using Weatherby 100 grain interlock factory ammo. Her first elk, the elk dropped in its tracks. Shoulder/neck junction shot at 250 yards.

 

[huntnful]

My wife is doing her very first hunt this year. She has also never shot a real rifle before (just some 22 LR and 17 HMR).

She drew an ID cow elk tag.

I’m planning to have her shoot my 6 PRC and 108 ELDM’s, and keep it under 300 yards.

The first range trip was a good success and she learn the function of the rifle fairly quickly. Loading her own mags and always shooting a mag full to get used to cycling the bolt after the shot.

She shot 5 shots at 300 yards and 3 shots at 600 yards to finish up the day.

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My 7-300 NMI with a 195 Berger at 3180fps, and the 6 PRC with a 108 ELDM at 3170fps.

I have full confidence they’ll both work fine! But the 6mm is great for women, children & infants though …. Kiddinggggg haha. I’ll have a good update after she hopefully kills in mid October!

Had to come and give an update. I ended up having my wife shoot my 6.5-7 with the 156 Berger on her hunt. She shot it well and I wanted to see more performance data for that bullet. She made a single perfect shot at 430 yards, and the lead cow tipped over 21 seconds after the hit. Bullet was fragmented perfectly and stuck in the offside hide.

 

[24valve]

95 TMk on an elk. First shot was 300 yards in the lungs, 2760 MV, 2365 impact velocity. It continued to follow the small herd it was with for 40 yards before stopping, so another shot was fired at 340 into the neck which dropped it.

The remnants of the first round was found in the offside hide, the jacket and lead together weighed 28 grains. The second shot passed through the neck.

(Edited to clarify velocities)

After letting the quarters hang for a bit, we started butchering and got better photos of the shoulder damage.

The first bullet shattered and punched right through the onside shoulder blade before continuing on into the lungs. (Photos are all of the same shoulder as we cut away bloodshot meat)