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Good to know...but this is a Remington LTR...bolt gun. And Im getting the length I apparently need, cause the TTSXs are shooting!

The bolt gun can handle hotter loads as well

yep PRI, I would not mind a model 7 in the 6.8.

I've had good luck with 90 gr Nosler bonded out of both my 20" AR and my 20" bolt gun I built out of a Savage donor rifle.

I averaged 3004 FPS out of the bolt gun with a medium load and the bullets touch each other at 100. A real fun gun to shoot, and easily my most accurate rifle.

Two shots, two bang flops. Nice 8 point for the AR, doe for the bolt gun.

I've since built a lighter weight 16" AR in .277 Wolverine and use that mostly, unless I might need to stretch out and reach them past 250.

Just took my caribou with 120 SST. It went two steps. No meat damage and my POF shoots them less than MOA. Also a very popular cartridge on the 6.8 forum with the hog hunters.

Shot a doe last year with the 123 SST from a 7.62x39 - launched from a Ruger #1, which gets a little faster velocity than an AK. The deer only ran 40 yards, but the bullet did not penetrate straight, which bothers me.

Artic,

Did you get an exit?

Maker is about to release all copper 85 and 95grn Tipped pills that have better expansion than the TTSX as well as a lower impact V expansion.

Looks really interesting for the 6.8 and priced at $33-36/50.

http://www.makerbullets.com/proddetail.php?prod=6.8mm95THV

I've been shooting called yotes with a remmy 6.8SPC for a few years, and have been pretty happy with it.

havent tried many deer-class bullets as i wanted more splatter factor, and i mostly shoot Speer 90gr TNT's, which shot well for me with a stout load of H335.

however, I did get some Nosler 90gr bonded and some Federal 90gr bonded bulk, PM me your address & i'll send you some to try out...



last year i had it cerakoted it in Tungsten, and rattle canned the stock.



shot a couple of hogs with those 90gr TNT's, and headshots really rang their gong....no blood trailing required...

Ingwe...these are the 6.8 gold dot component bullets i have, if you'd like to test some:

have you shot a deer with the 90's seems interesting.

Looks like Im gonna hafta try the SSTs.....

PM sent...thanks!

I like that treatment on your LTR! I switched the stock on mine to a B&C Mountain Rifle stock, and changed it up from an adl to bdl...

I've shot deer with both the Nosler 90 gr bonded, and the Gold Dot 90gr.

None went more than 50 yards after a heart/lung shot even with the lower velocities of the .277 Wolverine vs the 6.8.

I'm going to try the Gold Dot this deer season. I bought several hundred of the factory loads and my 16 inch Stag likes them.

From what I've seen on the 6.8 forums they perform pretty well.

They should do the trick for you.

how much did you need (if any) to open the barrel channel for the LTR?

good looking rig.

Sycamore

I saw the title to this thread and thought to myself.




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