6.8 spc 95 Grain Barnes TTSX






and its twin...

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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Originally posted by marshmandan:
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?

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...)

Well done!!!

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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Originally posted by Nyalubwe:

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Originally posted by marshmandan:
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?

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...)

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

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!

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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Originally posted by Nyalubwe:
GWB: I'm looking forward to a GFY in person

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Originally posted by Grenadier:

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Originally posted by Nyalubwe:
GWB: I'm looking forward to a GFY in person

Grenadier,

It ain't nuthin' but a thang!


ya!


GWB

GWB: I might just be bringing my foul weather mud gun too! .223AI

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.

6.8 SPC will work on deer too!




ya!



GWB

GWB: I'm about to see if it works on Aoudad! Will report back!

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

Well...wish me luck GWB!

with the way you shoot you won't need luck, just a critter within decent range!


ya!


GWB