.223 for bear, deer, elk and moose.

[ElPollo]

What you said holds true for every rifle. Keep stuff out of the action and the trigger if you want optimal performance and guaranteed function. Don't adjust the trigger down to a hairs breadth of trigger pull, and take care of your gear. I've used Remington 700's and their clones my entire life without issue. Yes, I've read the articles on failures that have happened and those are unfortunate, if not entirely repeatable assuming you're taking care of your equipment. I feel like if they were as huge a deal as they're made out to be there wouldn't be countless manufacturers copying their design and selling tons of them. I've knocked my remingtons and clones around a fair amount trying to simulate the issues I've heard of with nothing happening. It was loaded with a dummy round, with a live primer, and sand instead of powder. That being said I'm not going to fill the action with debris, or ice or anything else to test it. Nor would I try and run it if it got packed full of stuff in the field. I'd clean it out first.

People seems to like R700s enough to get defensive about them or to have had issues and choose not to use them. It’s not up to me to decide which group someone else is in.

 

[fwafwow]

Pretty good day, shoot turkey, catch trespass, find tmk's.

Need the trespass deats

 

[FCCDerek]

People seems to like R700s enough to get defensive about them or to have had issues and choose not to use them. It’s not up to me to decide which group someone else is in.

I'm not defensive over it. Just haven't had the issues with my rifles. I like how they shoot, and as with all my rifles, I ensure I never point them at anyone or anything I don't want to shoot. If I had an issue during my testing with them I'd sell them off. I've got a custom build on a Gunwerks action in 280AI that has performed great, and not accidentally fired with any of the testing I've done. And now I've got a 223, which admittedly, I haven't tested like that because I didn't have the stuff to load a dummy round for it yet. Were I to have issues, I'd happily send it on its way. But, like I said, no issues yet.

 

[ElPollo]

I'm not defensive over it. Just haven't had the issues with my rifles. I like how they shoot, and as with all my rifles, I ensure I never point them at anyone or anything I don't want to shoot. If I had an issue during my testing with them I'd sell them off. I've got a custom build on a Gunwerks action in 280AI that has performed great, and not accidentally fired with any of the testing I've done. And now I've got a 223, which admittedly, I haven't tested like that because I didn't have the stuff to load a dummy round for it yet. Were I to have issues, I'd happily send it on its way. But, like I said, no issues yet.

Thats fair. We base our decisions off our own experience. My point was only that, if I were choosing a starting point today, it would not be an R700 or a clone. I’ve owned them. My first was in about 1988.

 

[SquatchHunter]

Can we get an argument started about AR15 brands? I’m feeling left out over here.

PSA master race.

 

[Drenalin]

Can we get an argument started about AR15 brands? I’m feeling left out over here.

PSA master race.

Shouldn’t be a problem in a new thread. It’s the arguing time of year.

 

[Jsmalls273]

Can we get an argument started about AR15 brands? I’m feeling left out over here.

PSA master race.

Certain an argument over anything under the sun could be ensued round these parts.

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[SquatchHunter]

Shouldn’t be a problem in a new thread. It’s the arguing time of year.

All it takes is one more snow storm after a 60 degree week to kick off the anger. Lol

 

[bnsafe]

yall argue more than my wife and myself, which is sayin something

 

[chamois]

Roe deer is to Europe like Whitetail is to the US and here there is also a special appreciation for non typicals, like this that I hunted last weekend using my Blaser K95 single shot in 5,6x50R. Load used was Hornady's 75gr ELDM pushed by 26,0 gr of Varget for 2,906 fps.


Shot was taken from 225 yds and the bullet went through the heart. The buck jumped high in the air and left on a death run for 20-25 yds. In the next pictures you can see entry and exit sides in the carcass.

 

[Thegman]

Roe deer is to Europe like Whitetail is to the US and here there is also a special appreciation for non typicals, like this that I hunted last weekend using my Blaser K95 single shot in 5,6x50R. Load used was Hornady's 75gr ELDM pushed by 26,0 gr of Varget for 2,906 fps.
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Shot was taken from 225 yds and the bullet went through the heart. The buck jumped high in the air and left on a death run for 20-25 yds. In the next pictures you can see entry and exit sides in the carcass. View attachment 703391View attachment 703392View attachment 703390

Is that your tracking dog? What breed is it?

 

[chamois]

Is that your tracking dog? What breed is it?

Yes, it is, and he is always with me during my stalking.

He is a Bavarian Mountain Blood Hound, or BGS, acronym for the German name: Bayerische Gebirgs Schweiss Hund (@!#^@#*!@ç!!)

 

[Thegman]

Yes, it is, and he is always with me during my stalking.

He is a Bavarian Mountain Blood Hound, or BGS, acronym for the German name: Bayerische Gebirgs Schweiss Hund (@!#^@#*!@ç!!)

Good tracking dogs are incredibly useful. I have an English Shepherd I trained as a puppy to track. I did have one 77TMK'd deer run for 100+ yards in the woods with no blood trail. She found him in less than a minute (then comes back and finds me and takes me to the animal). It's like hunting with Lassie.

 

[Tahr]

Yes, a dog can be useful. My Lab finds them quick smart. It's ensuring when there is no blood trail with the .223. This one at a couple of hundred yards. Dropped pretty much on the spot. 77TMK.

 

[fwafwow]

I think we need a Rokslide tracking dog thread. Then I will follow it daily. I will research the eff out of tracking breeds. I will create a spreadsheet. I will begin the discussion with Mrs fwafwow. I will fail.

 

[Castle Rock]

You are already a failure if you need to ask her

 

[swavescatter]

You are already a failure if you need to ask her