6mm /.243 hunting success on Big Game

[Hooskerdrew]

Buddies damage cow tag.

Tikka 8tw 243 with 95tmks doing 2970 at the muzzle. Shot was 434 yards with an impact of 2154.

First hit was a bit high and a bit back, still got lung but was definitely on the edge of guts for reference. Cow turned and ran 10 yards, second hit was lower edge of front leg and pretty much a heart shot, she ran another 10 yards and flipped over/slid 40 yards. She was on her feet for around 30 seconds. Heart was folded open from second shot and lungs had a nice big hole going through them as well.

First shot entrance is upper blood, you can see offside damage from the second hit where the knife is pointing.


Second hit entrance:


Second shot once leg is off:


First shot side once leg is off, you can see damage from both shots here:


First animal I’ve seen with the 95s and I’m very happy with the performance. Could have sworn I took pictures of the lungs and heart but going through photos I’m not finding them.

 

[nuffgun]

Man that is one nasty bullet, I bought some to try out in my daughters .243 win for next season. We are getting 2985 fps mv with Staball 6.5.

 

[Hooskerdrew]

Man that is one nasty bullet, I bought some to try out in my daughters .243 win for next season. We are getting 2985 fps mv with Staball 6.5.

I tried staball 6.5 too, didn’t do a ladder just used the same charge I had with the 103 eldx. Shot really good: 1” for 10 but the charge I tried was 100 fps slower than h4350 which shot 1.3” for 10. Didn’t feel like I needed to keep tinkering to find pressure even though I know the staball would give more speed. I know a lot of guys haven’t had the best results accuracy wise with them, but they have been shooting more than good enough in my gun.

 

[Hooskerdrew]

Just got these from my buddy as he’s butchering. This was from the second shot, lodged in the offside leg. He doesn’t have a grain scale but he weighed it rounded to 5 grams, so 77ish grains?

 

[OFFSHORE]

That is a nice 6mm 95gr. pill right there!!!

 

[scott1982]

Factory Tikka 8 twist barrel. Factory 103 ELDX ammo.

Shoots better than I can.

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I'm looking for factory 103 eldx ammo for my daughters rifle. Where did you find yours?

 

[Benjy howell]

I'm looking for factory 103 eldx ammo for my daughters rifle. Where did you find yours?

Texas ammo has good prices on there ammo. Sure they have the hornady precision hunter that uses 103 eldx

 

[Hooskerdrew]

I'm looking for factory 103 eldx ammo for my daughters rifle. Where did you find yours?

Copper creek ammo loads some

 

[Speaks]

I'm looking for factory 103 eldx ammo for my daughters rifle. Where did you find yours?

I use blackhills from ammovan.

 

[The Guide]

I'm looking for factory 103 eldx ammo for my daughters rifle. Where did you find yours?

If you read further in the thread, you will find he said...

Sorry that was confusing by me.

I did not load that ammo. It was loaded from UM and was loaded way under, close to what a factory load would be.

Hope that helps.

Jay

 

[Mtndawger]

Makes me wonder what’s the purpose of a magnum in today’s world of great bullets and a ballistic calculator in everyone’s pocket. Seems like it’s only needed for very niche use cases of carrying velocity out quite far. 50-100 years ago maybe there was a most justifiable need as a flatter trajectory compensated for lack of ballistic information.

Does this reasoning track or is it too reductive? I struggle to find any practical purpose for a typical hunter (0-600 yard range, let alone the more common 0-300 or 400 yard range) having a magnum, but it’s so simple I feel like I’m missing something.

I think it’s a bit reductive. It really depends so much on each individual use case. The factors that make me lean 6.5 prc vs 6.5 creed comes down to velocity and how much I get out in the wild to practice and shoot. Velocity equals flatter shooting and increased margin of error. I may be able to compensate under stress/in the moment in/with my scope much more quickly than my son who hasn’t really shot enough, which was my scenario last year last rifle elk in Colorado. So we went with the prc. I haven’t hunted in other western states, and I get the idea it’s a different game vs Colorado. Here it’s everything I can do to get out away from other people enough to get at undisturbed animals living their lives like animals do. I’m on board with the new thinking about cartridges/ calibers, barrel length, the Rokslide mentality and all and I’m working my way up to speed in being proficient and acquiring the equipment toward that; but the reality is I’m not there yet and the majority of hunters are even further behind me. Maybe less than 5% of hunters are carrying a wind meter and regularly shooting past 300 in practice yet may aspire to shoot to 400 or 500 yard. This is just general observation @ my local range, in the field and talking to other hunters I know and see. Not all of us shoot a thousand rounds or more a year in varied terrain from multiple positions. Sorry to veer off topic so much but I think that’s where guys are with it. If we can get out more and shoot more we are more confident with smaller cartridges/calibers and bullet placement. You have to keep in mind that roksliders on these threads are the pioneers of new thinking. The rest are the laggards.

 

[scott1982]

If you read further in the thread, you will find he said...


Hope that helps.

Jay

AH HA, Thankyou.

 

[WYHuntFishTrap]

.243 got it done for years on multiple moose, a few dozen caribou and a bear once. 100 grain Remington core lokts. All ranges sub 200 yards, most sub 100. I think the farthest any animal ever traveled after hit was 50 yards tops.


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That’s impressive for a .243! I may have been underestimating that cartridge.

 

[bpitcher]

Aoudad Ewe - 6CM, 112 Match Burner, 2840 fps MV

250ish yards, Impact Velocity 2480 fps, Quartering Away, Ran 20ish yards before spinning and dropping.


Entrance right around the last two ribs


Exit far shoulder

Exit shoulder removed

Lung tissue on the ground