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Really put a monster on the ground last night with the 6.8 85 factory SSA tsx in an ARP tube. With my 5 year old daughter in my lap. Baited the hog wallows and waited about 15 mintues and at 50-75 yds out walks a 350 plus boar and 6-8 50 100 lb pigs. He faced me and looked like he smelled something and and we decided to drop the hammer, HE DROPED LIKE A ROCK. I think he may be well over 400.
I'll get a weight, but i've handled lots from 250-350 and i couldn't budge this old beast. 3-4" cutters. Nice old boar. And a very excited 5 year old girl.
Wil have a full autopsy and pics later when I open him up.
6.8 continues to stack em up, at least one critter every week!
At under 100 I'd put the 85 TSX 6.8 combo in any critter I've ever known of under 1,000 lbs.
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You're making me actually start to believe that thing might work...
Now hurry up with the pics!
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I hate how much those mono-metal bullets cost, but they are effective!
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Congradulations, well done
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I hate how much those mono-metal bullets cost, but they are effective! Not like Berger or JLK match bullets are cheap either, and last I checked, ya don't shoot an 88 shot match with the TSX bullets... grins.... I"ve had ONE box of 85tsx in 6mm for my 6.8 necked down to 6mm since John built the upper. I still have loaded rounds left. Never used more than one on an animal, never missed... grins...
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I'm probably more impressed with the on-game performance of my 6.8, than any rifle I've shot. I shoot 110 AccBombs.
Thanks for the 6.8 report--I too am waiting for pics of that monster.
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I have had really good results with my 6.8 as well using 110 TSX's. One of my favorite hog and deer guns for under 250-300 yards.
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Really put a monster on the ground last night with the 6.8 85 factory SSA tsx in an ARP tube. With my 5 year old daughter in my lap. Baited the hog wallows and waited about 15 mintues and at 50-75 yds out walks a 350 plus boar and 6-8 50 100 lb pigs. He faced me and looked like he smelled something and and we decided to drop the hammer, HE DROPED LIKE A ROCK. I think he may be well over 400.
I'll get a weight, but i've handled lots from 250-350 and i couldn't budge this old beast. 3-4" cutters. Nice old boar. And a very excited 5 year old girl.
Wil have a full autopsy and pics later when I open him up.
6.8 continues to stack em up, at least one critter every week!
At under 100 I'd put the 85 TSX 6.8 combo in any critter I've ever known of under 1,000 lbs. Looking forward to the pics. One question though, why the 6.8 over the 6.5? I don't have either one, but a friend is trying to choose.
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Really put a monster on the ground last night with the 6.8 85 factory SSA tsx in an ARP tube. With my 5 year old daughter in my lap. Baited the hog wallows and waited about 15 mintues and at 50-75 yds out walks a 350 plus boar and 6-8 50 100 lb pigs. He faced me and looked like he smelled something and and we decided to drop the hammer, HE DROPED LIKE A ROCK. I think he may be well over 400.
I'll get a weight, but i've handled lots from 250-350 and i couldn't budge this old beast. 3-4" cutters. Nice old boar. And a very excited 5 year old girl.
Wil have a full autopsy and pics later when I open him up.
6.8 continues to stack em up, at least one critter every week!
At under 100 I'd put the 85 TSX 6.8 combo in any critter I've ever known of under 1,000 lbs. Looking forward to the pics. One question though, why the 6.8 over the 6.5? I don't have either one, but a friend is trying to choose. Ammo for one. I use the SSA 110 Accubomb in mine and it is a deer hammer. 20 inch Stag gets 'er down range at 2750 fps.
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I use the Barnes 95 gr Tipped TSX in mine with Rel 10X.
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Palmetto's pics: ![[Linked Image]](http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w242/mdv1state/pig2.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w242/mdv1state/pig1.jpg)
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Big hog for sure. Shot a bigun last year with my 6.8 as well...
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Who buys ammo? I thought almost everyone that would frequent a board like this would load? Palmetto, thats a damn nice hog. I gotta get a photo scanned of one Carolyn shot with her bow years ago....bottomed our 350 pound scale so who knows. I shot a big sow once in deep south TX with my bow. Perfect shot but she had shoats with her and I had 4 witnesses to her size, one guy said she looked like a VW bug. She is the biggest pig I've ever seen alive in the wild, and they had pens down tehre with huge pigs to raise..... so I"ve seen weighed pigs at just over 1000... we never found her the blood kept going lung blood, and just got to thick.... We estimated her at between 500-600.
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I NEVER see either int he stores, but the price and availability online is virtually the same.
A 'calculator comparison' between the two using published data shows that the are pretty neck & neck, especially in the short barrels, no real diff.
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6.5 grendel has been in a local cabelas the times I've been there...
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Until about 2 years ago I did not own a "hunting rifle". I killed a truckload of hogs and a few deer with a 16" barreled 6.8 shooting Hornady 110gr OTMs or 115 SMKs. An AR and the 6.8 is an ideal combination. The lightly constructed "match" bullets expand well and usually exit when launched at the moderate 6.8 velocity.
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Shot a doe and javelina and two yotes with 110 otm bullets all pass throughs. Bullet performed well under 150 yards.
85 tsx loaded as hot as you can safely is a hammer!
That big hole in the middle of that pigs chest is the entrance wound!!!
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6.5 grendel has been in a local cabelas the times I've been there... You're right. Availability is through the roof. Sorry for my mistake.
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