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6.8 spc 95 Grain Barnes TTSX   and its twin...  | ||
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Fantastic.... I've been trying to decide between a 6.8 or a 6x45 in a light weight bolt gun on a model seven action or a Contender/Encore Carbine. What barrel length and stock did you go with? | |||
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I just caught this post, sorry for the delay in response. Mine is a Remington LTR barreled action, so its on a 700 action with a 22 inch barrel.A Model Seven would make nice combo! My stock is a B&C Mountain rifle stock made for Remington ( Very much like a Ti...) | |||
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Well done!!! Bobby Μολὼν λαβέ The most important thing in life is not what we do but how and why we do it. - Nana Mouskouri | |||
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Good work! I ordered a 6.5 Grendel just for this kind of thing. I finally got a bit tired of the absolute finesse the 223 needs. | |||
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TB, no McFlame stock or at least a GFY and skull and crossbones sticker? Oh well there's still time before the next hunt! ya! GWB | |||
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GWB: I'm looking forward to a GFY in person in a couple months! Don't know what I'll be packing, but a Ruger #1 in a deuce for sure...maybe the McFlame..... gotta bring something mud-resistant! | |||
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 TB, I spied this Dakota Alpine (maple stock) chambered for the 280 Remington about 6 months ago. It took till Wednesday this week to cajole the LGS to sell it to me for the price I wanted. I hope to have it bailed out in time to mount a scope and zero it in time for the hunt! will definitely bring the 376 Steyr as it luv's perforatin' porkers in the mud!  ya! GWB | |||
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 Grenadier, It ain't nuthin' but a thang! ya! GWB | |||
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GWB: I might just be bringing my foul weather mud gun too! .223AI   | |||
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Jeeze you guys are having too much fun.... I've gotta make it back to Texas soon.... Nyalubwe, Thanks for the specs. I just picked up a New model seven for about what the action would have cost. Then there's the Contender/Encore possibilities... For now I've narrowed it down to 6.8, 6x45, or least likely another 300blk. The idea here being sufficient killing power with minimal recoil. | |||
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6.8 SPC will work on deer too!  ya! GWB | |||
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GWB: I'm about to see if it works on Aoudad! Will report back! | |||
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TB, AS you probably know, I favor larger diameter bullets of heavier weight. I've taken Aoudad with 338 RUM, 7Mag, and 30-06 Springfield. I did lose one that I was using a 308 Win.,150 gr. Accubond. However the shot was 300 yds. plus.    We had been on this particular lease for seven seasons. I keep game cams out much of the time. Some of the other guys have said they have seen Aoudad up in the rocks, but I never had. In fact only one had been killed off this lease in seven years. So imagine my elation and surprise when I viewed these pix on the game cam. Four Aoudad at one of my remote spin cast feeders. This location is about ½ mile off the road. Four images of Aoudad on October 19th. It was October 31 when I veiwed the game cam pix. Was I jazzed. Hopefully they might still be in the area. Fast forward a year plus. It was Friday night, Dec. 28th I sat in a stand that is another half mile back behind the feeder where the Aoudad had shown up. It was about 30 minutes before dark when, as luck would have it I saw them coming over the top of the hill directly across from the hilltop I was perched on. I watched them mosey down a ways. The big ‘un was in the lead. He walked out on an outcrop and turned broadside. I ranged him at 306 yds. My Sako carbine is loaded with 150 gr. Accubonds at +/- 2,750 FPS and as I’m a short range meat hunter, it was zeroed at a measly ½” high at 100 yds. Bummer, wrong rifle and wrong zero. What the heck. Seven years and no Aoudad. I decided to take the shot. I held about 6” over the top of his back, set the trigger and let fly. At that medium velocity and range it seemed like a couple seconds before I heard a solid “whop”. It looked like he hunched up and took off behind some juniper. I watched for about fifteen minutes. No movement. It was starting to get dark but I wasn’t about to wait till morning to start looking. Problem was, I had to go all the way down the hill, across a stream bed then climb a vertical incline lined with cedar, cactus and cats claw. To make matters worse, I was in shorts. Needless to say, by time I got near where I thought he might be it was almost dark. I had a flashlight, but no good reference point. By the time I got off the side of that mountain I looked like I’d been drug behind a truck. I looked for that dude off and on for two days. Aoudad meat ain’t the most tasty, but can be mixed with pork to make pretty fair jalepeno cheese salami. I didn’t mind not recovering the meat, but this guy was a stud puppy. I sure did want the head and horns. Would have made braggin’ rights for a good while. I ended up looking for his skull off and on for months. Never a trace. Over the last year I've had a troup of aoudad visiting the "canopy" on a very infrequent basis. The stand is perched on the side of a hill. I can see down into two valleys. I've not laid eyes on this guy as he only comes in from time to time. Don't know if I see him in the flesh whether I will try to take him, or just shoot him with my camera. He too is a stud!   can't tell from this angle whether this is the same ram, but he ain't too shabby!  If nothing else its a kick in the pants to sit out there and to contemplate! ya! GWB | |||
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Well...wish me luck GWB! | |||
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with the way you shoot you won't need luck, just a critter within decent range! ya! GWB | |||
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