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Good to hear that. What did it hit, total penetration etc??

We shot an 8 point at the house tonight, close to 200 yards facing us, in the front of the chest destroyed the heart, went through all the guts, and exited the hip.. still haven't caught an 85 tsx from the 6mm woa in the AR to see..... He made it maybe 50 yards or so.... full of blood on the inside.

Congrats, Jeff

It was 10:30PM, the black pig was running hard and surprised me (I was almost asleep in the chair, but not quite, because I was freezing my a$$ off.) It was a spine shot just behind the head and it just blew out the spine and part of the head and dropped him at 85 long paces. The bullet exited so was not recovered. The pig had been spooked by another hunter and realized it was supposed to be in another county a half hour earlier and was trying to make up some time; that pig was MOVING.

The wound tunnel was like a drilled hole about the diameter of my index finger; the bullet performed as it was supposed to. I love that Scirocco II.

thats REALLY good proof on the bullet. Hitting something that hard and not blowing up... I think Stick and Steely have used them more than a bit too and similar results!

Quick snap of the deer here....

Nice deer. Well done.

70 gr Barnes TSX will shoot well and, IME, out penetrate anything in .224. Shot a big buck Antelope almost end to end with one (it's still flying) from a 22-06 (3700 fps @ muzzle) but at 352 lasered yards so probably like a 223 at 100-150.
That's the first exit hole on left shoulder, then it went through his neck as he was looking back over his left shoulder. Entrance was behind last rib on other side. Two steps & flop.

My son has killed two large does with the 75 grain Hornady TAP out of a 16-in. HBAR. Died swearing they'd been shot with .243s...

...that is nice to know. The 75 grain TAP is my favorite factory round. Velocity from a 20" barreled bolt gun is 2709. Have never chroned the load from a short barrel AR.

A friend in Texas has a Winchester M70 Ranger in .223. They are up over 25 deer, all one shot drops... All but one deer dropped in place, a small doe ran 30 yards. They were all shot with the Winchester 64 grain PowerPoint. All pass through shots except an 8-point shot at 150 yards in the shoulder. Jacket and core were found against the skin on the far side.

They also killed one or two deer and a hog with the Trophy Bonded 55 grain bullets but found the bullet a little tough for deer...passed through without much damage...did a good job on the hog though...

In a bolt gun I have used 26 grains of Win. 748 with a 64 grain Winchester PP bullet or the 63 grain Sierra. From a 24" barrel the velocity was 3100 fps. Only killed a couple of coyote with the Sierra but it seemed to work better than some of the lighter HPs my friends use.

Bob

the 63/ 64s are good bullets for deer. As is the TBBC... too tough is in the eye of the beholder though. Evidently the deer were dead and the toughness of the bullet left some leeway if big bones were hit.

Update on that hog. Since I was the only one who shot a hog that night, I decided to share it with my friends. One of them has just called me to inform me that he found the bullet in his share of the hog. He says it has mushroomed picture perfect and the nose is about the size of a dime and had come about two thirds down on the bullet.

He is a picture of that hog. I am standing beside it and I am 6' 4''.



Oh, and when I asked him about the head part, thinking the bullet had gone out, he said that was mud. (I didn't look very closely at the time.)