6x45

[ezwy]

That’s awesome. What scope is on the rifle and did you dial in for her?

It’s a lucid optics L5 4-16x44. We have turret tags on it out to 400. She knows how to dial but I was ranging and dialing on the deer.

 

[fshaw]

Success today with the 6x45! My daughter has always been highly opposed to recoil so we built this up and she shoots it well and shoots quite a bit. Shooting the 85 grain game king at 2640. Right at the very edge of comfort for how far I would want her to shoot. 326 yards. Perfect shot. No exit. Top of heart and one lung mushed. View attachment 936407View attachment 936408View attachment 936409

Well done! Congratulations to the hunter, and her Dad on a great buck.

 

[derekbeaudry]

6x45 is one of my favorite rounds and easy to shoot and load for. My typical loads are anywhere between a 70 gr blitzking at 3300 fps up to a 105 Berger at 2700 fps. It does a lot of things well with little recoil and a lot of fun in general

 

[Barred]

Shot in this configuration as well as the stock stock too.

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Is this built on a cva scout for the action. That looks like a hoot too shoot.

 

[Barred]

Success today with the 6x45! My daughter has always been highly opposed to recoil so we built this up and she shoots it well and shoots quite a bit. Shooting the 85 grain game king at 2640. Right at the very edge of comfort for how far I would want her to shoot. 326 yards. Perfect shot. No exit. Top of heart and one lung mushed. View attachment 936407View attachment 936408View attachment 936409

One hell of a shoot and one monster of a animal taken.

 

[Ckat]

Another notch for the 6x45. This big boar was drinking from a windmill overflow. 70 yards or so. I shot him through the lungs hoping that he would run far enough to not have to drag him off… he made it about 15 yards before tipping over.

85gr BTHP SGK is a killer.

 

[Megastink]

I love my 6x45 I built two years ago. Its a Savage action, 20" Shaw bull barrel, MDT chassis, SWFA 6x. Great gun! Accurate as all get out. I want to hunt with it, but its 11lbs, which I feel is too heavy for these PA mountains. I'm thinking maybe I should sell it and build another.

If I were to do it again, I'd probably do a Tikka action with a 16.5" threaded barrel. Maybe CF, maybe pencil steel, idk. I'd like to keep the stock super lightweight; maybe even stick with a factory Tikka stock. Slap a Trijicon Creedo 3-9 and that would probably do. I bet I could kill anything in the PA woods with it.

 

[Tburt]

I have not posted in a while, still working up loads to find my favorite in my 6x45 build - 16" barrel. So far, the best have been Hornady 90 grain ELDX and 103 grain ELD with H335, Accurate 2015 powders respectively. I got my hands on some 95 grain TMKs and I was pumped to make them work, but no such luck yet. I've tried Cfe223, Accurate 2015, H335. Going to try Benchmark next. I tried some ladders with the Eldx 103 with 8208xbr, and it was alright, but not as good as the Accurate 2015. I was seeing muzzle velocity of 2470 for the 90s and 2230 for the 103s.