Thread: 223 on deer

My Savage lightweight is having a makeover.

Out with the old 1/9 well worn skinny barrel and in with a 20" Trueflight 1/8 Tikka profile with flutes.
Gun Smith (a member here) sent me a pic of the new barrel screwed in. Needs to be sand blasted and new bedding job.
Hopefully be in action before the roar is over.

Nice profile barrel.

It looks the part @Tahr

65gr game king launched at 3100fps vs young fallow doe at 217y.
Animal ran 10m downhill then tumbeled
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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

65gr game king launched at 3100fps vs young fallow doe at 217y.
Animal ran 10m downhill then tumbeled
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Strange result with the 65gr Sierra. Dont experience that sorta damage. We have shot 100's with that pill. Just about to use 69gr Targex and expect brutal damage like the 95gr Targex in the 243.

Originally Posted by TeRei

Strange result with the 65gr Sierra. Dont experience that sorta damage. We have shot 100's with that pill. Just about to use 69gr Targex and expect brutal damage like the 95gr Targex in the 243.

Its the tumbeling downhill that does it....see the next one I posted it was half the size and very clean damage wise.

Fawn with no mum. 247y animal dropped on spot legs pumping on its side for a few seconds before death
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Considerably smaller animal and a touch more range way less meat loss due to drop on spot I think.

Key point from that being if the animal is likely to tumbel a lot and you want all the meat perhaps best to neck shoot at the atlas joint.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Key point from that being if the animal is likely to tumbel a lot and you want all the meat perhaps best to neck shoot at the atlas joint.

They are well conditioned

Originally Posted by Nathan F

They are well conditioned

Yep they are.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Key point from that being if the animal is likely to tumbel a lot and you want all the meat perhaps best to neck shoot at the atlas joint.

Something like these 2 with a 75g eldm


Bullet entered just above the eye on the 2nd one, and did a fair amount of damage

Large mature doe over 250 y,clean crease shot collected off side leg. Rolled 100plus y down very steep face before coming to rest at the bottom.
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Its suprising the damage such a little pill makes, one of mine from the other night broke the solid bone on the front leg plus did numerous other damage

Here it is. I wore it out, so rejuvenated it.
@Jaco Goosen on here did the smithing with a fluted 20" true flight 1:8 barrel. I went up a contour from the Savage Lightweight barrel to Tikka contour. It brought the weight up to 6.5lb bare, but wow it shoots. Jaco also re-bedded it nicely too

Tonight I fired a dozen shots using ammo loaded for the old barrel. 69 grn Targex and 69 Sierra Tipped averaged a bit over .5" for 3 shots. One single group with 77 grn Sierra Tipped loaded to just touch the lands of the new barrel went .75" with one flyer that might have been me. Pretty damned cool.

And to cap it after 12 shots, using Hoppes, there is no sign of copper. Jaco said that it looked a perfect barrel through the bore 'scope.

It isn't cheap this re-barreling thing but Im pretty damned delighted with the out come.

And, and, to double cap it off I'm baby sitting a Wairarapa sheep station for the owner for a few days and the Fallow are croaking here

Originally Posted by Tahr

Here it is. I wore it out, so rejuvenated it.
@Jaco Goosen on here did the smithing with a fluted 20" true flight 1:8 barrel. I went up a contour from the Savage Lightweight barrel to Tikka contour. It brought the weight up to 6.5lb bare, but wow it shoots. Jaco also re-bedded it nicely too

Tonight I fired a dozen shots using ammo loaded for the old barrel. 69 grn Targex and 69 Sierra Tipped averaged a bit over .5" for 3 shots. One single group with 77 grn Sierra Tipped loaded to just touch the lands of the new barrel went .75" with one flyer that might have been me. Pretty damned cool.

And to cap it after 12 shots, using Hoppes, there is no sign of copper. Jaco said that it looked a perfect barrel through the bore 'scope.

It isn't cheap this re-barreling thing but Im pretty damned delighted with the out come.

And, and, to double cap it off I'm baby sitting a Wairarapa sheep station for the owner for a few days and the Fallow are croaking here

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Nice one Bruce you going to try the 80grn in it.
I hope to have mine next week.

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