Terminator Strikes 2 More Times - Badgers
Jun 24, 2020 17:01:47 GMT -7
Post by Timber Butte Outdoors on Jun 24, 2020 17:01:47 GMT -7
Male 14.16 pounds 7:10am
Female 16.15 pounds 10:00am
Well Folks the Terminator strikes 2 more times this week. On Tuesday, Bob and I went badgering out to the desert, we left the house at 5am, and got out to the desert at around or just after 6am. we began hunting, driving the desert two track dust roads, stopping and glassing as we get to an advantage point, At 7:10 we spotted our first recruit of the day, a badger ran out onto the dust track and stopped about 100 yards down the road and turned broadside to the pickup, I put the cross hairs right in the center of the badger and sent a 75 grain HP 6mm bullet, delivered at around 3600 fps to the boiler room (top picture) you can see the exit hole in the badger. Amazing power that 6mm has on animals and objects.
So on down the road we went after pictures and high fives were all done, we drove it seemed like a long time without seeing anything, we didn't even see a single squirrel out there on Tuesday, and we were the only one we saw until around noon, a couple of UTV's come screaming down the road and passed us in a cloud of dust!
But before the UTV's we lucked into another badger, this time, as we were going down a dusty 2 track, I looked across a small flat from up on top a small ridge that the road had crested before going down a small incline, and I said to Bob, man look at all the badger mounds, at about that time, Bob said I wish we could see a badger out there, just after he said that I looked out again and there it was, I said "badger" Bob stopped the pickup I leveled the cross hairs and the Terminator barked again, another 75 gr HP bullet found it's mark, hit it right in the throat below the lower jaw, DRT! 90 yards shot, perfect shot distance!
I named my rifle a Ruger Tang Safety M77 6mm Remington the TERMINATOR (You can see it on the stock, becuse when I first got the rifle It would not shoot a group, so I worked on it developing loads for iand worked on the bedding and the barrel tension until I got it diled in and then began hunting with it! The more I shot it the more I feel in LOVE with it, it seemed that everything I pointed it at died, didn't matter what it was, badgers were the first fair for the rifle, then coyotes, rockchucks, squirrels, you name it it got shot. this this is devastating on stuff!
Here are some pictures of some cans we shot with the 6mm and Bob was shooting his 223 Ruger American with 40 and 50 grain bullets, they are also devastating
Remember that these cans were full of soup or dogfood, tht was expired, so we use them to test hydro-static shock of a bullet. the test was awesome. I was testing a 55gr Nosler Varmageddon bullet it is a nylon tipped bullet like a Vmax bullet, but lighter skinned. The cans of food exploded like dynamite had gone off inside the can. it was awesome display of power, even the 223 40's and 50's Vmaxs were devastating as well.
You can see the Terminal Shock of what the bullets did in damage on these cans. If you do this kind of testing, please make sure you do as we did and pickup all the mess you made, please don't leave it for someone else to clean up after you!
There were 6 cans that we started with, but we only had 5 left in some semblance of cans, but one literately blew into little pieses and we picked up as much as we could find, Bob found pieces of can 25 yards from the starting point, AMAZING force !!!!
Thanks for reading!
Gary
