Post by elalto on Feb 21, 2004 17:12:29 GMT -5
Hey Joe,
I went through the same thing when I started varmint hunting; quite a few varmints were either missed or shot and lost. I had been told that Coyotes were especially hard to kill and since we were hunting mainly at night, a wounded varmint was a lost varmint. I bought a 6mm Remington BDL Varmint “Special”, put a Leo 3x9 on it and with my reloads it shot .5” groups at 100, I thought I had it made. So… I could not understand why the dogs were not dieing, how could they get away? I was stumped!
Then I read an article about the 6x47mm and how it was so accurate and deadly on dogs and cats, I was tired of the noise, recoil and muzzle blast of the 6mm Rem. So I bought a Rem 722 in 222 and had a new barrel put on chambered for the 6x47. It was incredibly accurate; five shots went into one single ragged hole. I used a 60-grain hollow point and 27.5 grains of BLC2 for about 3200 fps and sighted it in at 1.5” high at 100.
I was so confident in the rifle, and @ 1.5” high at 100 I could hold dead on out to 250 and be sure of a hit, that I began to aim only for the head and neck of the varmints… well I never lost another animal! That is the truth I did not miss or have an animal walk or run after the shot until I quit varmint hunting about two years later.
Your 223 should be almost as accurate and mild to shoot as my 6x47, sight the thing in so that you have a good “point blank” range for the type of hunting or shots you have AND aim for a SPOT on their head or neck, they’ll all DIE quick.
In fairness to the Remington, I probably would have had the same success if I had set it, and myself, up the way I did the 6x47, I just assumed that a 6mm should kill the varmint with any solid shot to anywhere on the body… WRONG. With the 6mm I was aiming at an animal, with the 6x47 I was aiming at a spot on a certain part of the animal BIG difference.
I hope this helps; keep trying that 223 should be all you need.
Marcos (elalto)
I went through the same thing when I started varmint hunting; quite a few varmints were either missed or shot and lost. I had been told that Coyotes were especially hard to kill and since we were hunting mainly at night, a wounded varmint was a lost varmint. I bought a 6mm Remington BDL Varmint “Special”, put a Leo 3x9 on it and with my reloads it shot .5” groups at 100, I thought I had it made. So… I could not understand why the dogs were not dieing, how could they get away? I was stumped!
Then I read an article about the 6x47mm and how it was so accurate and deadly on dogs and cats, I was tired of the noise, recoil and muzzle blast of the 6mm Rem. So I bought a Rem 722 in 222 and had a new barrel put on chambered for the 6x47. It was incredibly accurate; five shots went into one single ragged hole. I used a 60-grain hollow point and 27.5 grains of BLC2 for about 3200 fps and sighted it in at 1.5” high at 100.
I was so confident in the rifle, and @ 1.5” high at 100 I could hold dead on out to 250 and be sure of a hit, that I began to aim only for the head and neck of the varmints… well I never lost another animal! That is the truth I did not miss or have an animal walk or run after the shot until I quit varmint hunting about two years later.
Your 223 should be almost as accurate and mild to shoot as my 6x47, sight the thing in so that you have a good “point blank” range for the type of hunting or shots you have AND aim for a SPOT on their head or neck, they’ll all DIE quick.
In fairness to the Remington, I probably would have had the same success if I had set it, and myself, up the way I did the 6x47, I just assumed that a 6mm should kill the varmint with any solid shot to anywhere on the body… WRONG. With the 6mm I was aiming at an animal, with the 6x47 I was aiming at a spot on a certain part of the animal BIG difference.
I hope this helps; keep trying that 223 should be all you need.
Marcos (elalto)
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