AR hunters

[jpmulk]

Anyone hunt big game with an AR?

If so,
What caliber?
What optic?
And what is the weight?

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Pokerface]

6.8SPC , Old Bushnell 3200 3-9 scope, it has a heavy barrel on it and have not weighed it , but probably close to 8 or 9 pound range . Sweet Whitetail rifle... Joe

 

[sierracharlie338]

Carried them for years for deer/pigs/varmints. Standard 223 with a 3-9 type optic usually. Not sure on weight.

Now I hunt with a 6.5Grendel if I hunt with an ar. It has a 1-8 on it currently and have no issues with it but will be swapping a 2-10 on it for a bit more zoom.

 

[MThuntr]

6.5 Grendel 123 SST Athlon Ares 2.5-15. weight unknown but lighter than my Rem700. I don't know if I want to shoot anything bigger than a deer or antelope with it but have killed whitetail out to 300 yards.

I have some test loads with the 95gr Maker Bullets for a spot I hunt that requires non-lead. So far I think the faster 95 bullet will have a similar drop to the heavier bullet. Looks like 300-350 will have the minimum velocity for expansion.

 

[SloppyJ]

I've been using my 300blk for my son this year on the youth hunts. It's worked okay. He's only 6 so being able to mitigate the recoil with a tripod and a suppressor helps. Shooting 110 vmaxes with 20gr of lil gun. They've worked just okay as well. I'll feel better when he can step it up to a .243.

 

[Dos Perros]

I have a 6.5 Grendel/123gr SST with a 20" midweight Lilja barrel that we are using for my boy for Kansas whitetails. It is accurate and very soft recoil which I prioritize for him. I have a rather large 6-24 optic on it because I built it to drop bomb on coyotes from far away...like a spot/stalk coyote rifle. It's probably heavy. I don't like AR's for my own big game hunting but it's what I have for the boy. Probably need to get him a bolt 243 or something like that.

 

[nettereo16]

I’ve killed a bunch of whitetails with a 6.8spc I built. Very friendly set up for new shooters as well as there is very little recoil. Barrel is a little heavier than I should have done

 

[Jbehredt]

Fresh out of the Marine Corps I used to kill elk with a 12lb 308 AR. It felt light compared to a 240! Those days are behind me now.

 

[jpmulk]

Fresh out of the Marine Corps I used to kill elk with a 12lb 308 AR. It felt light compared to a 240! Those days are behind me now.

I think you should have hunted with the 240

 

[TxLite]

Killed a few deer from 80-210 yards with my 16” 6.8 and a 1-6 razor scope. Shooting 110 accubonds. I haven’t weighed it but it’s very nice to carry around.

 

[Dos Perros]

Pics are fun.

 

[madgrad02]

AR10 count? On the heavy side, but it's a tack driver. 308 with a Leupold 3.5-10 Firedot.

 

[grappling_hook]

.223, most recently shooting 77gr TMK under CFE 223. Scope has either been a Nightforce SHV 4-14 or NX8 1-8 depending on what I've been after. With the NX8 (and a new carbon fiber handguard), I'm at 8.5 pounds empty with suppressor.

 

[jpmulk]

Killed a few deer from 80-210 yards with my 16” 6.8 and a 1-6 razor scope. Shooting 110 accubonds. I haven’t weighed it but it’s very nice to carry around.

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Did you shoot it in the neck?

 

[TxLite]

Did you shoot it in the neck?

Yep

 

[5811]

Ar15
16" 223
Swfa 6x
7 lbs 11 oz minus suppressor, 8 lbs 14 oz with.
Took my first whitetail with 223 this year. Works as advertised.

Ar15
458 socom
Vortex spitfire 3x
Heavy/unknown

Ruger sfar
16" 308
Swfa 3-9
8 lbs 5 oz minus can, 9 lbs 3 oz with.

 

[Mt4+4]

I've been using an ar15 in 450 bushmaster the last several years for whitetails. I built the gun myself and i've never weighed it, currently its wearing a leupold 3 - 9 . I enjoy hunting with it and i'd say my only complaint would be when its down below freezing that aluminium forend sure gets cold.

 

[Dos Perros]

How do y'all go about quietly chambering a round?

 

[Johnboy041586]

Another for 6.5 grendel. 18" ss barrel, Leupold 3x12x40. Wieght unknown but it's not very heavy.

 

[Johnboy041586]

How do y'all go about quietly chambering a round?

I'm sure the safety patrol would disagree, but mine stays chambered all day, unless I'm hiking something really sketchy.