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Rio7

I recovered every animal i shot and looked at their vitals when gutting them. Not one was gut shot.

On tight behind the shoulder shots it looked like you poked a knitting needle through the first lung, the 2nd would show some bullet expansion with an exit around the size of a quarter a 50 cent piece. Once they began to expand they did fine but they were halfway through the deer before they did.

Shoulder shots through bone started the expansion sooner, but we eat shoulders so I prefer behind the shoulder placement

Have yet to be required to track an animal is one the redeeming factors of the Scenar.

Dude270, Your results with the 6mm Scenar vary greatly from mine.This is 3 days work. Rio7

That's some nice meat.

I've used the 30 cal 155, 6.5 139 and 123 with wonderful results

The 6mm 105 was the first I saw this behavior. As I said, the shoulder shot stuff died very quickly. It was the double lung rib shot stuff that surprised me with the 100 yard death runs. They left decent blood from the exit side to follow. I was just shocked because I've never seen one that caught a 105 amax or 108 eld go more than 30 yards.

Dude270, I would suggest you use what works for you, have you ever tried a 45-70 405 Gr. ???? Rio7

I like the way you think.

Yes, I think the 308 is 2,820 +/- with a 150/155 on the upper end with a 22" bbl and Varget.

46 VGT, 155 Scenar touches 2900 with 24" NULA


Lety

Rio, I live and hunt Texas too. Kill lots of stuff every year. Had luck with the 6.5 123’s so I bought 1K 6mm 105’s back in the fall from PV. Unfortunately I’ve had the same issues as Dude on 6 or 8 pigs running. Hit in the neck or shoulder they go down, heart/lung shot they run 100 yds or so. From your experience I’m guessing these Bullets are inconsistent in their performance on game

Interesting to hear PatB.

Don't worry though, Rio will be along to tell you are full of sheit too.

Anybody ever recovered one of them (105’s) from game?

Dude270, You have the full schitt part of Scenar bullets Covered. Rio7

beretzs, I have jar of recovered bullets I will look and see if any are 6mm Scenar. . Rio7

PatB, I have shot a lot of pigs with the 105 Scenar, and have no complaints, I will say i am not a big fan of trying to shoot heart and lungs on a pig, as the heart is covered by the fore leg and real low in the chest, and if you are back a couple a inch's you gut shoot them. I prefer head,neck, shoulder, if I have that shot, this is also true on Whitetails, I am not big fan of Blood trails and tracking, trying to track a poorly shot critter in the dark sucks. no matter what it is. Rio7

So you say you head, neck and shoulder shoot things with the 105 scenar and they drop, precisely as I said.

You say you don't like tracking so don't take behind the shoulder rib shots, which I said caused excessive running with the 105 scenar.

Yet somehow I'm either a liar, an idiot or both and I should disregard my findings and bow down to your incredible knowledge.

Ok......

I agree 100% on shot placement on pigs and tracking... But sometimes an offhand shot doesn't go exactly where I anticipated and winds up behind the shoulder. Try not to shoot offhand if there's an alternative but sometimes it happens.. Anyway, good information on this thread..
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We caught one in a mule deer buck. It was in the far side rib. It looked like the nose sheered off and the rest looked kinda like a wadcutter. All the others exited and left nice sized exit holes

Dude 270, You gave you opinion,and i gave mine, we agree more than we disagree, OK Rio7

Agreed. And I appreciate the insight from somebody that's used them a lot

Be cool to see a few. Never found a Scenar yet. Thanks fellas.

Glad this didn’t turn into a bad deal. You both added some great intel. Thank you.