AR15 uppers for deer?
07-10-2008, 05:49 PM
#11
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Georgia
Posts: 364
RE: AR15 uppers for deer?
I know for a fact that a 60gr Nosler Partition will drop deer pretty regular, neck or hart/lung shot, tracking ranged from 20yds to 110yds. Ive been experimenting over the past four monthswith the Barnes Tripple Shock 70gr, found my load of 23.5gr of H-4895, Federal 205M primers through my DPMS varmint rifle 1&9 twistwill group 1/8" at 100yds, now if the bullet will perform like Barnes claims, that should be a deer killing round.
07-10-2008, 08:32 PM
#12
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: tampa fl USA
Posts: 184
RE: AR15 uppers for deer?
ORIGINAL: Ridge Runner
anything you can stuff down the magwell can be had, in the AR's I've used the 223 8,9,and 12 twist, 25 wssm, and the 458 socom of the three for all around deer/hog hunting the 25 wssm with a 110 gr. accubond is hard to beat, it doesn't hammer them like the 458 socom, but the 458 is a 150 yard max rifle.
in the 223 the 64 gr win powerpoint, the 55 gr trophy bonded and the 60 gr nosler partition are hard to beat. I've taken over 100 deer with the 223 and if and only if you take the "classic double lung on leg foreward shot", any 55 gr bullet leads to a 80 yard sprint to a pileup on our smallish deer here in wv.
ya may wanna look into a 6x45 (223 necked up to 6mm), the 6mm PPC, 25x39mm, if ya wanna get a bigger hammer, the 358/25wssm can be had, (exact ballistics as the 358 win.) the possibilities are almost endless.
RR
anything you can stuff down the magwell can be had, in the AR's I've used the 223 8,9,and 12 twist, 25 wssm, and the 458 socom of the three for all around deer/hog hunting the 25 wssm with a 110 gr. accubond is hard to beat, it doesn't hammer them like the 458 socom, but the 458 is a 150 yard max rifle.
in the 223 the 64 gr win powerpoint, the 55 gr trophy bonded and the 60 gr nosler partition are hard to beat. I've taken over 100 deer with the 223 and if and only if you take the "classic double lung on leg foreward shot", any 55 gr bullet leads to a 80 yard sprint to a pileup on our smallish deer here in wv.
ya may wanna look into a 6x45 (223 necked up to 6mm), the 6mm PPC, 25x39mm, if ya wanna get a bigger hammer, the 358/25wssm can be had, (exact ballistics as the 358 win.) the possibilities are almost endless.
RR
07-20-2008, 01:35 PM
#14
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: LaFollette, Tennessee
Posts: 492
RE: AR15 uppers for deer?
I'm hunting this season with a Ko-Tonics upper on a DPMS lower with Armalite trigger chambered in 6.8SPC shooting SSA loaded Sierra 110gr Prohunters. It's a very excellent all around rifle however for hunting I plan on getting a .458 SOCOM upper and perhaps the 6.5 Grendel. I know people use .223s where legal but that's too light for my taste.
