Posted: 10/20/2008 12:41:39 PM EDT
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Quoted: Ok I'm sure this will open up a can of worms. I'm gonna buy one or the other depending on the input here. I intend on using it for hunting and just shootin. no competition. don't get me wrong I like shootin tight groups (sub moa).
| I posted this in another thread ...
So, thinking about producing a non-5.56 caliber, the 6.5 Grendel, I thought it best to go do some testing ...
On the flight up to Greeley, me and the Navion passed by a town called Munday, Texas.
So, I flew by Munday ... on a Thursday.
Set a box out at exactly 325 yd. to confirm the 325 yd. dot zero ... shot, checked (knowing I left it 2 moa high) , then came down that 2 moa and shot twice more ... ummm, convincing ... and not bad shootin' ...
After shooting last two shots, I mindlessly took the scope off to show the ranch owner. I then put it back on and didn't think another thing about it. I later heard he was a little concerned I didn't shoot some more to re-zero.
Elk country ...
I can see the shot in this next pic, it was 405 yards across this draw ... wind howling. Using a BOG tripod, rock-solid, I held 20" best-guess into the wind and let fly.
This is how I found him just 10 yds from the point-of-impact. My spotter said he whirled to the left and was instantly out-ot-sight.
We took off all the orange stuff for some pics ...
Starting in on field dressing ...
Got him down the hill just at dark ...
The flight back.
Processed meat was under this pile tied-together with the hidden seat belts. I was flying alone, so held the camera out for a self-portrait ...
If he'd been any bigger, then I would have had fit-issues getting him in the Navion.
Kansas is soaking wet ... corn is still green ...
Thought it best to verify the Garmin's accuracy, so I dropped down to check a road sign on a long stretch of deserted Texas road ... no cars seen for miles on that one ...
The Navion is back in the hangar ... the meat's in the freezer ...
So, this is not the end-all-be-all of tests, but those 120 grain Triple Shox did shoot clean through an elk side-to-side, standing 405 yards across the way. Don't know how much damage it did, but it sure did kill hell out of him. He was guartering slightly away, and I missed my wind guess by ~5", so I hit him just behind the diaghram, it then passed through the diaghram halfway through him, zipped through his left lung and exited behind his left foreleg. YMMV.
A nice side benefit of hunting, all meat is hormone-free and organic, just the way my honey likes it.
M. LaRue |
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