Your correct my 6x45 is also known as a 6mm-223 . A single pass through the Die expands the neck of a .223 case up to 6mm . All I did was rebarrel an old Tikka T3 , I chose the T3 for a couple of...
Liked On: 17-04-2025, 01:11 AM
Good topic thanks. I nearly always have a bit of cord in my pocket. You just never know when you'll have the opportunity to use it. And naturally I am seldom without a pocketknife. I take...
Liked On: 17-04-2025, 01:09 AM
You should have great success with that,the option of using pretty much all off the shelf ammunition will be handy indeed. Should get great expansion with the faster twist.
Liked On: 15-04-2025, 11:42 PM
Quite right! No self respecting animal would allow itself to be shot with anything but the latest cartridge. Imagine the shame telling the others in the herd that your brother was shot with a 3006...
Liked On: 15-04-2025, 11:42 PM
272697 I've been shooting a 243W as well as the Ackley with either 1/7.5, 1/7.75 or 8t since forever. Im currently using this tikka fitted with a Trueflite, 7.5t, pushing 109gr Bergers at...
Liked On: 15-04-2025, 11:40 PM
303: only because there wasn't a useful alternative at the time. Otherwise they would have been stacked 50 high at the dump.
Liked On: 15-04-2025, 11:32 PM
Check out the 95g Nosler Ballistic Tip Designed by Gail Root for all of his Africa Plains Game hunting Good BC, a jacket thickness controlled expanding lead core with a solid copper boat tail...
Liked On: 14-04-2025, 11:41 PM
I have a t3 1:8 shooting 108 ELD-Ms @2900 and 85gn Maker trex @3200 (22.4" bbl). Nice to shoot and kills stuff good. The 108s could go faster but they shoot well and have killed from 30 to 425 yards....
Liked On: 14-04-2025, 11:41 PM
108s work terrifically
Liked On: 14-04-2025, 11:41 PM
i have a 243 with a trueflit 1:8 24" barrel, I started with berger 87gr and 105 gr ELD hunters, the 87gr are great on deer and goats massive internal and exits, I struggled to get the 105 gr 's to...
Liked On: 14-04-2025, 11:40 PM
thanks guys! I know my backpack is to heavy but my gear aren't meant for NZ trip my backpack(4.5kg), rifle(5.5kg), bullet, tripod and spotting scope alone are over 15 kg the spotting scope surely...
Liked On: 14-04-2025, 01:37 AM
I'm making this post as a thank you to this community, but also to help other travelers who have as many questions as I did. First of all, I would never call my trip a vacation. An adventure,...
Liked On: 14-04-2025, 01:36 AM
After poring over maps for a fair whack of time and hoping my preferred area of the Northern Ruahines wouldn’t get 1080’d I found out the drop was postponed. I had looked at a series of faces from...
Liked On: 14-04-2025, 01:34 AM
A mate and I decided to go for a sika mission into some new country for us the, famed Clement’s mill Rd! Put a big shift in on Tuesday avo in appalling weather walking about 4 hours into an area I...
Liked On: 14-04-2025, 01:34 AM
Got approval from the fam to head out for 3 nights and 3 days solo Goals: Explore a new part of a block, shoot a deer with the 223 for the thread :thumbs-up:...
Liked On: 01-03-2025, 10:10 PM