Howdy from STX.
Thinking of a 20” 6UM that will always wear a suppressor. I have a SilencerCo Scythe on order but might run my TBAC ultra 7. Most hunting will be done from a box blind in South Texas, but I do want lightweight because I want this as a do all rifle for nearly everything. I also hunt antelope and mule deer with hopes of an elk in the near future.
I’m going to use this primarily at our deer lease in South Texas. We hunt senderos mostly. Point blank to 500 yards max. Most shots will be 200 and in. In reading all the pages on Rokslide most of the talk is about elk with the 115 DTACs. It looks like there’s hesitation to use DTACs on deer. We have some of the largest bodied whitetails in the state. Most mature bucks are 220 plus pounds on the hoof. Definitely not huge but big for TX. Week before last, I had a buddy shoot a 230 lb buck quartering to us in the shoulder at 40 yards with a 150 grain SST 308 that didn’t exit. Yes through lots of bone, but I figured that at that close of distance, that the bullet would've exited.
Our place is in heavy brush country full of thorns. We need exit wounds. If they don’t drop and don’t leave blood, they can disappear in the heavy cover.
I’m near sea level at my home ranch and reach the lofty highs of only 700 ft at our hunting lease. According to the Berger stabilizer calculator, at 3350, 115 DTAC show marginal stability. Will they work in my scenario?