One Little Piggy, Two Little Piggies and a 6X6.8

[GLSHOOTER]

I received some pictures this AM from a young fellow, I am old BTW, of one of the groups he shot with his new 6X6.8 on its first outing. Bullet of choice was an 85 Nosler. This group was shot off a back pack and rolled up blanket from prone at 100 yards. He felt it was adequate enough to take it afield so a hunting he did go. Two shots and two prime bacon fixin' pigs later and the smileage showed up. I am looking forward to how his load development goes along and he has promised to keep me informed.





Made my morning beyond a doubt.

Greg

[mtbill]

That's awesome, I was just thinking about using my 6x6.8 for an upcoming pig hunt. Do you know which Nosler bullet he was using? Partition?

[blaker17]

I used 85 grain partitions for this hunt. Both pigs dropped where they were standing. Range was 110-120ish yards. 

The load that I am shooting seems very mild but produces good accuracy.  

I shot a 5 round group when I was sighting in that was not on paper, but was on my target board that I should have snapped a picture of as it was about .75 moa. 

[mtbill]

Very nice, thanks for the info. I'll have to give that 85gr partition a try for my pig hunt in January.

[blaker17]

Let us know how it goes! I will be after the pigs again next weekend. I hope to have more success and I am trying a new load as well. 

This time I am using IMR 8208 instead of the H4895. Same bullets.

[blaker17]

Here are two more that I took with my 6x6.8 

85 gr Nosler Partition over 26.3 gr H4895.

[selousscout]

Outstanding! Hopefully I get drawn for javelina this spring & I'll get to use mine on some critters as well.