Opinions on the 6mm 95 gr ballistic tip...

[FOTIS]

Real on game experiences need apply please. Any game.

Tango Mike.

 

[SJB358]

Whitetails in Upstate NY, 95gr BT. Load was IMR3031 and 95gr BT's. It was being shot out of my cousins Savage bolt gun. While sighting it, we put it 2" high at 100 yards and had several sub inch groups at 100. He shot a nice 7pt opening morning, through both lungs, deer COLLAPSED at the shot. Just folded up. No real bones hit, but the exit was about like a silver dollar, and the insides were mushed really good. I used the same load and rifle to shoot a doe at about 225 yards across a hayfield. Again, it crumpled at the shot. Same results, mushed innards and dead deer. This was awhile back before I really learned about you all, but I figure that load was clocking maybe 2850-2900 max and handled deer really well. I wasn't ever a fan of the 243's till then, but it seems to work well on deer. My son will use IMR7828 w/95gr BT's this year. I imagine he will do fine. Scotty

 

[FOTIS]

Scottie:

Thank you for the insight buddy!

 

[SJB358]

Why are you asking Pop? Just wondering. I think Guy Miner has smoked a few deer with the 6mm Rem and 95gr BT. I imagine he would have the most real world experiences both long and short range. I think it is a pretty cool little bullet and very accurate. I hope my boy can get into some deer with his rifle this year. Scotty

 

[FOTIS]

Why are you asking Pop? Just wondering...............

Oh..... you know...... just because........ eh........ ah hem .... clearing throat.....

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[Teknys]

I watched as my son shot a doe (243 w/95BT) at about 350yds across a canyon last year. I saw the hit and she ran 20yds to some trees and brush but never came out the other side. It took us about ten minutes to drive around to the other side and he went down to find her and she jumped up but couldn't run. A shot to the neck and it was over. His hit was "bulls-eye" in the lungs with a quarter size hole coming out.
I'm surprised she was alive that long, she didn't run her self out, just moved to the brush and lied down.

This imo is not the norm with BT or any bullet to the lungs. He has taken a couple of other deer with that gun and bullet combo and performance of the BT is what is expected, quick and clean on deer.

 

[SJB358]

After seeing how well the 243 with BT handled deer, it really drove it home how much of a great DEER bullet the BT is. It handles deer sized animals the way they need to be treated! Plus, the 243 really takes advantage of the velocity range of the BT. You get book performance from the muzzle out to long range! Scotty

 

[JD338]

Pop,

I have used the 70 gr BT on varmints, flawles performance. You have the 6mm Remington bug too. :shock: :lol:

JD338

 

[FOTIS]

Pop,

I have used the 70 gr BT on varmints, flawles performance. You have the 6mm Remington bug too. :shock: :lol:

JD338

Ahem.... no comment! :roll:

 

[SJB358]

AHEM, no comment! I am really surprised you aren't a 240WBY guy! I know you have dabbled in them all. Really surprised I haven't seen one of them on here. Scotty

 

[FOTIS]

240?

Been there done that got the t-shirt. It is ok but I would take a 25-06 over that one.

 

[SJB358]

Rgr, it must have came and gone long before I showed up. Man, I am glad I have a 243 in the safe (even though it is the boys!). That 6mm is pretty sharp. Scotty

 

[Guy Miner]

95 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip is the question? The answer is YES! :grin:

Great little bullet. Accurate, and performance on mule deer, even out around 300 yards, has been great. I remember being very surprised that the bullet would hang together and penetrate as well as it does - yet it also expands and tears stuff up real well. Typically the bullet exits, even through an off-side leg or shoulder. For deer, I don't think there's a better all-around 6mm bullet.

I hope the next barrel on our 6mm Rem shoots these just as well as the original barrel has...

Regards, Guy

 

[FOTIS]

That is good to hear Guy!

 

[ACLakey]

One of the guys I hunt with loads this bullet exclusivly in his kids .243 with great results. I have seen those kids take several deer and two cow elk with the longest tracking job less than 30 yards. They perform well and we have a bunch of seconds to play with.

 

[Larry in SD]

A few years back I had a Ruger KM77RFP MKII in .243. I got my load from a guy on this very forum, 95gr. Nosler Ballistic Tips loaded with H-4350 (I'd have to look up the charge weight). That load in that Ruger was just amazing. I think the largest 3 shot group I ever fired at 100 yards from the bench was 1/2". Most 3 shot groups were a single hole about the size of a .357 bullet.

I took 4 Whitetails with that bullet and load. The furtherest any of them traveled after the shot was 30 yards. IN each and every case the exit wound was about the size of a 25 cent piece.

Most of the shots were 200ish, but in one case I finished off a wounded Whitetail Doe at 400 yards. Yep the 95gr. Nosler Ballistic Tip did the deed and the doe collapsed at the shot.

In my opinion the 95gr. Nosler Ballsitic Tips at 3071 FPS from that Ruger turned the .243 into a serious deer killing machine.

Larry

 

[TXbaldhunter]

Mine shoots it real good with 43.5grs of IMR-4350.