What you hunting with this year?

Will be using my Sig Cross in 6.5cm. Have put several hundred rounds through this thing in the last 10 months learning and getting confident with it.



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Hunting with an 18" carbon fiber 6.5 PRC this year. took it last year too, but swapped scopes and stocks this time around.
Last year it was in a lighter weight chassis but it was -12° and aluminum which don't mix well.
This year it was 61° so it wouldn't have been a big deal, but I like the way the stock feels more.
Worked up loads with 130 TGK and settled on load 4. Repeated sub .3 moa three consecutive times.

18" 6.5 PRC - RL16 - 130gr TGKGroup sizeVelocity
Group 1.85 MOA2896 fps
Group 2.58 MOA2922 fps
Group 3.31 MOA2946 fps
Group 4.29 MOA2962 fps

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I've killed deer with just about everything legal in Oklahoma except with a recurve bow. Going to finish out the season with a Bear Super Kodiak. I'd like to at least get a doe but I'm not going to be to picky. At 74 I think this will be a great way to finish my season, if the deer just cooperate a little. If I can get one in close I think I can get the job done.
 
Haven't bought a deer tag here in Oregon for to many years. I live in Central Oregon and game animals and game birds have all but gone away till this year. Been seeing some finally, shoot even seen a few elk! Gonna get a deer tag next year and had a rifle re-barreled to hunt deer with. 700 ADL was a 243 but now it's a 260 Rem with a Lilja barrel. Have a 129gr Hornady load worked up I'm gonna use. I'm pretty a 6.5 freak these days. Have a 6.5x06 on a 700 BDL with Shilen barrel that shoot's pretty well, right around 3/4" at 100 yds. With 140gr Sierra MK's it's stay just under 1/2". Also have the first Win rifle I ever hunted with. Mod 70 Feather weight in 6.5x55. Went hog hunting last year for the first time and got a nice one for the freezer. Got this rifle about 2004 hoping my grand daughter would become a hunter. She doe's like going out and shooting my son's AR but I think it's just to see how fast she can pull the trigger! She has no desire to hunt. I carried that 260 out deer hunting for a day on a friends ranch but didn't get a shot so maybe this year.
 
I carry a lightweight Model 7 Remington in 308 when I go on my annual hunt up in Montana. Easy to carry in the woods and going up and down the hills out there.

Never felt outgunned with the 308
 
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