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I took my WA State Mule Deer this year on opening morning with a AR I put together chambered in 6.8 SPC. It was a chip shot range wise compared to what I'm used to shooting and the country I hunt. I prefer the 6.5 Grendel and have taken deer with the chambering but I just had to try the 6.8 SPC. I have also shot deer with AR's chambered in .243 LBC and 6mm-6.8 SPC. 237 yards with a Hornady 120gr SST factory load. They shoot half MOA out of my carbine. Just as I found him. Total BANG! FLOP!. The 120gr SST broke a rib going in, destroyed the lungs and exited.         -------------------------------------------- Nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home. | ||
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Great buck, congratulations! Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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I really like those wider muley racks. Your buck is a beauty. My one & only muley is a bit more than 22 inches wide. My congratulations to you. Very well done. Hunting.... it's not everything, it's the only thing. | |||
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Great buck! Congrats. Montana opened today and this is the first time in 6 yrs I wasn't there. Miss that open country. It's ruined hardwood whitetail hunting for me..... | |||
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Really great looking buck, CONGRATULATIONS!!! Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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Thank you.. I drew a WA State big bull/ branched antler permit that starts this Monday 10/23. I'm hoping it goes as well. I'll be carrying the 6.8 SPC in the timber but I'll have a long range rig along for the fun stuff. -------------------------------------------- Nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home. | |||
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Nice buck! | |||
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This is what is all about....   -------------------------------------------- Nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home. | |||
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Good job nice buck. | |||
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Nice buck and the hunk of venison is making me hungry!!!  | |||
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SMACK: I have a 6mm Hagar AR - 6.8 necked down to 6mm. Wonderfully accurate, if a bit heavy (heavy 24 inch Krieger bbl). Congrats on the deer. | |||
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Congrats on a nice buck. I like the way AR platform rifles are changing minds about what makes a suitable hunting cartridge. All We Know Is All We Are | |||
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Nice! What area? I have relatives in Ellensberg. "Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" -- Ronald Reagan "Ignorance of The People gives strength to totalitarians." Want to make just about anything work better? Keep the government as far away from it as possible, then step back and behold the wonderment and goodness. | |||
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East Wenatchee area. I'll be headed through Ellensberg at about 4 am in the morning. Heading in to hunt Peaches Ridge with my big bull permit. -------------------------------------------- Nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home. | |||
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Real nice buck. I have one on the wall just about like it. Close to the same size, and the L forks are not full either. Heavy bone makes this one. Had it remounted a few yrs back and had it measured. 167 7/8's. Looks like the bone on yours isn't as heavy though. One I have an uncle killed it way back in 1946. First season after WWII. You should be able to see it a few pages back on here. OR maybe the 'trophy wall" thread. I've lost track. Congrats on nailing him when you had the shot. George "Gun Control is NOT about Guns' "It's about Control!!" Join the NRA today!" LM: NRA, DAV, George L. Dwight | |||
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I liked you deer better on Hunt-WA... (same user name for me there)My 6.5 Grendel seems to be a shooter. Can't wait to get it out hunting! NRA Life Member Gun Control - A theory espoused by some monumentally stupid people; who claim to believe, against all logic and common sense, that a violent predator who ignores the laws prohibiting them from robbing, raping, kidnapping, torturing and killing their fellow human beings will obey a law telling them that they cannot own a gun. | |||
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Nice Buck!!! Well done!!! Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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