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Yeah I run a nickel boron bcg on my .260. I love how easy they are to clean.

Read it. Still kinda want to do the 7.5 with the 1:5 twist if it comes in stock. Although I might be willing to go longer for a decent stainless barrel with a 1:7 twist if it is in a light contour and so it begins

I have been looking a lot, and while I know the benefits of barrel length and velocity, I think I am going to go with the faxon 7,5” that has the 1:5 twist as soon as I can find it in stock. Gotta be something behind the short barrels with fast twist considering all of Q’s 300blk guns have 7 or 8 inch barrels and all have the 1:5 twist. If I am not happy with it as a short range hunting rifle, will always be a good home defense rifle with suppressor and subs. 😁

Hmmm thanks guys. Lots of thinking to do. I do believe it will still be a good 100 yard hun for my son, might go with something supersonic for him though until I myself can be confident with how subsonic work on deer.

I completely understand the extra damage hydrostatic shock creates. I meant comparing it more to archery broadheads. But I think I get what you mean, lower exit wounds have a better chance of creating a blood trail due to a the lower position of the whole. Kinda a “which cup is going to overflow first” type scenario. I almost always am shooting down at deer which helps with that lower exit wound and some of my best blood trails have been from archery.

I think it is a great choice for most fast moving cartridges. Not so sure about slower velocities though.

Interesting, I expected a maker 200 or 220 to act a lot more like a broadhead after impact, creating a nice blood trail of hit in the bleedy bits. I don’t see why it wouldn’t cause a blood trail like a nicely placed broadhead shot. What factor am I missing here? I am a science nerd and want to know. Lol. well I just bought a tool craft nickel boron bcg yesterday, so I am building something. Lol. @unforgiven I will be hunting with him using the hunting mentorship program. Once he is 11 he will be taking hunter’s safety probably.

As long as it works, why clean it? Don’t fix what isn’t broken! 😂 just keep it lubed. 💦

Those 2.5 to 3.5 year old deer you cull I think have better meat than the older trophy bucks. Idk if I taste a difference, but they are easier to butcher. we have been seeing tons of doe also. Dnr has been trying to work on doe numbers in our area for several years now, giving $10 antlerless tags every 24 hours.

I have taken 6 deer or so with the .260 using 120 gr nosler ballistic tip hunting bullets. Only one deer needed a second shot, not sure if it was a need, but I felt like I made the error and pulled it. I have shot 3 deer with the 6mm arc now using hornady 103 gr ELD-X. The last 2 of those deer I shot twice because the first deer I shot once I almost didn’t find because the bullet hit a rib and fragmented enough that it didn’t exit. Though the lungs were mush, it was still able to go a lot farther than I want. Sure enough, two more bullets didn’t exit, one on each of the other two deer. I was so upset with the first deer I looked into hornady’s ELD-X and they have actually stated officially in videos that it is mad to dump its energy very quickly causing a lot of internal damage, but is often found just under the skin on the far side of the animal. Your basic cup core bullets that only hold like half their mass after impact. With the steep and sometimes thick (due to a swampy area in the valley I hunt) I want a good exit wound spurting blood if that animal doesn’t drop immediately. So I don’t think the 6mm ARC is lacking in capability, I think it is lacking in good hunting bullets that will hold 90% or more of their mass and creat a full pass through almost every time. I want to try loading 95 gr barnes LRX and try them. Even my .260 Remington I am going away from cup core bullets. I just bought 200 rounds of nosler 129 gr accubond long range, which are bonded bullets and should give me a lot better terminal performance. moral of the story; i believe if you hunt deer and similar animals with anything, whether it is .223 or .30-06, you are better off using a bullet that will maintain as much weight as possible and give you that exit wound which will leak a nice blood trail and lower the animal’s blood pressure quickly. sorry for the rant, hope you guys stuck with me though 😉

@BrianK a lot of people say the powder fully burns at 9 inches, but I have watched a lot of videos comparing 5.5” barrels going up to 10.5” with different twist rates. From what I have seen going down to 7” isn’t that big of a change for each inch, especially since I will mostly be shooting subsonics. There was a noticeable difference on the wound channels created by faster twist rates. Faster twist rates is really what I am looking for with a barrel, otherwise 9 inches would be the length I would choose. Shooting subs I am not as worried about the muzzle blast, especially if I do put my suppressor on it. What I will be loading for the hunting loads will be Maker REX bullets that seem to open amazingly in soft tissue. and I have seen many videos of them expanding really well on pigs. Basically it will be like a flatter shooting and more accurate arrow broadleaf with how it expands.

Yeah I have never had a problem with any of my buffer setups, but was thinking about doing it just to have a buffer combination I don’t have already to experiment with in many of my rifles. Lol.

They are trying but there are a lot of lawsuits against the ATF right now that are going our way. I am not worried because besides Madison and milwaukee, my state is pretty right wing and pro 2a, and my county is a 2nd amendment sanctuary county where the Sherrif and DAs office will not prosecute.

I live in wisconsin and ARs are definitely legal for hunting with no magazine limit for deer and minimal caliber of .223. Every year I see more and more ARs since I hunt public land. Probably close to about 1/3 of the rifles I see in the woods these days. Two different wisconsin deer with two different ARs, one in 6mm arc and one in .260 Remington.

So I have decided to build a .300 blackout pistol for my oldest child’s first hunting rifle. Funny enough, he is born on opening day of Wisconsin hun season. He will be 10 when he first gets to hunt with this rifle but he is a very small child for his age. I looked at youth hunting rifles but decided on a ar15 pistol due to length of pull with brace fully in. not to mention the lower recoil that an ARs buffer system creates. So for wisconsin deer with a low recoiling rounds in an ar15 I would go no less than a 6mm arc or .300 blk. I have now taken 3 deer with my 16” 6mm arc but I am less than confident in the 103 gr ELD-X bullets. They are extremely accurate but they don’t usually give a full pass through, which for the terrain I hunt in, I like a nice blood trail. Barnes has 95 gr LRX bullets that I would love to try on deer in a 12” 6mm arc in the future, just not sure I want to try that out for a child’s first hunting round/platform. So I plan on building a .300 blackout pistol from a Aero Precision M4E1 upper and lower. Looking at either a 7.5” faxon barrel with a 1:5 twist or ballistic advantage (or faxon) barrels with 1:7 twist that are either 8” or 9”. It will also have a 7.3” aero precision atlas s-one handguard and a a tactical sba3 brace. Will probably go straight to heavybuffers for a heavier than standard buffer and spring due to running is suppressed a lot of the time with my rugged micro30.