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Haven't shot a .223/5.56 in many, many years, but they do work. Love it Dan!! lol
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Are those all Tejas pigs Ingwe? I have looked into those hunts a few times but always got sidetracked onto something else. I need to go down there one day and do that.
Yeah, they were all in Tejas. Let me know if you ever want to go, hopefully I can help point you in the right direction.Cousin and I are going in March for "Aporkalypse 2022"
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Another pair bit the dust this morning courtesy of CritRcall and the 77TMK. Not my ideal coyote bullet but elk season is open so I took the elephant loads.
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Good stuff Kid! How about something exotic?
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ingwe,
what are the details of that rifle and stock?
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ingwe,
what are the details of that rifle and stock? That was an SPS stainless action, Benchmark Bbl chambered in .223AI with an 8 twist. Stock is Mc Millan Remington Mountain rifle pattern in "McFlame"
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This photo is of Eileen with her latest "deer" rifle, a special-run Tikka T3 .22-250 with a 1-8 twist from Whittaker Guns of Owensboro, Kentucky. The pronghorn was taken with a 70-grain Hornady GMX at 180 yards, which dropped the doe right there. (The guy to the left shot the buck after he trotted a little way from the doe after she dropped, and then stopped broadside. The "rifle" is a Sauer 16x16/6.557R drilling.) A few weeks later Eileen killed a big whitetail doe at 275 yards with the same .22-250 and load, but we ran out of photo light, since I'd shot another doe a few minutes earlier with a 6.5 PRC. Both deer went about 50 yards and dropped. I used the same load to take this pronghorn buck at 350 yards a couple years ago, but with another Whittaker special-run 1-8 .22-250, a Ruger American. The buck was angling away, and the bullet stayed inside, the only 70 GMX we've recovered so far, weighing 70 grains.... This one's "historical," of an 18-year-old guy I guided on a central Montana ranch in 1988. He wanted to be an Alaskan guide, so bought a .338 Winchester Magnum before he ever saw Alaska. He brought it on the pronghorn hunt, which his father bought as a high-school graduation present, and couldn't hit them. The outfitter I worked for loaned the kid his .25-06, but by then he flinched so much he couldn't anything with it either. That evening I took the kid to the .300-yard gong I 'd set up behind the lodge, and had him shoot my Ruger 77 .220 Swift with its handloads using the 60-grain Nosler Solid Base. After flinching hard on the first shot, he said, "Hey, that doesn't kick!" He then shot a tight 3-shot group on the gong, and we went out the next morning and found him this buck. The Solid Base went through both lungs and exited, and the buck trotted 30 feet and fell over.
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you guys sure kill some big stuff with 22 cals....
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He had his hand caught in the cookie jar today but what the hell, he still died via .22 LR (not the shotgun, because I know someone will ask).
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He had his hand caught in the cookie jar today but what the hell, he still died via .22 LR (not the shotgun, because I know someone will ask). Very cool!
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Good stuff Kid! How about something exotic? Where the hell do you have fallow deer in the US? Great! Congrats. Because of its appearance we call them shoveller
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ElmerKeith,
There are also quite a few fallow deer in Texas.
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MD- what scope is that on the Ruger American in the solo pic of you and the antelope?
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I just took in a nice Sako .22-250 on consignment. I have been trying to resist the urge to work out a deal with the owner to buy it outright.
This thread is not helping… Get it! You live once.... You are correct. I bought it. Hoping to do a javelina hunt this spring or next. Seems like it will be a good match. Just topped it with a fixed 6x leupold. Should be a fun point and click with 55 Hornady's.
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