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AR15/10 Rifles
Need help to decided on ar 15 caliber
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 1906474" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>"I am certainly no expert, so I'm just asking. Why would you consider building an AR 15 over an AR 10 if it's to be used for hunting?"</p><p></p><p>Weight and compactness and easier handling.</p><p>In the real world most pigs and deer are taken inside 200 yards so you don't need the larger cases.</p><p>For those talking about certain bullets construction in 6.8 they make the same constructed bullets in .264. </p><p>From looking at multiple loading manuals comparing 6.8 Rem and 6.5 Grendel with equal barrel length the 6.5 Grendel out performs the 6.8 Rem as to velocity achieved and within the same weight range of bullet the .264 bullet most often has a better coefficient so it will retain it's velocity better.</p><p>I don't own a 6.8 Rem. but do own two 6.5 Grendel's and have killed white tail deer with them and they kill as good as anything I have ever used within 300 yards. Over the past 50 years I have killed hundreds of white tail deer from most about everything between a sharp stick and a 45-70. I did crop damage control for 15 years with my hunting buddy where we had to take 100 deer a year off a big farm. One lessen we learned is it's not what you shoot them with it is where you shoot them. Shoot them in the gut and you may not recover them because they can go for miles. Shoot them in the heart/lungs and about 70% of the time they will run off a ways. They are dead but they just don't know it yet. Shoot them in the central nerves system and they drop in their tracks.</p><p>You need to use a bullet that is constructed to accomplish putting a hole completely through your chosen impact direction to accomplish interruption of intended system. </p><p>The only hogs I have ever killed have been domestic because where I live or have lived feral hogs have not been around. The domestic hogs were killed with a 22 long rifle bullet to the brain. So again it is not what you shoot them with it is where you shoot them. </p><p>Oh, my Ford will out run your Chevy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 1906474, member: 10178"] "I am certainly no expert, so I’m just asking. Why would you consider building an AR 15 over an AR 10 if it’s to be used for hunting?" Weight and compactness and easier handling. In the real world most pigs and deer are taken inside 200 yards so you don't need the larger cases. For those talking about certain bullets construction in 6.8 they make the same constructed bullets in .264. From looking at multiple loading manuals comparing 6.8 Rem and 6.5 Grendel with equal barrel length the 6.5 Grendel out performs the 6.8 Rem as to velocity achieved and within the same weight range of bullet the .264 bullet most often has a better coefficient so it will retain it's velocity better. I don't own a 6.8 Rem. but do own two 6.5 Grendel's and have killed white tail deer with them and they kill as good as anything I have ever used within 300 yards. Over the past 50 years I have killed hundreds of white tail deer from most about everything between a sharp stick and a 45-70. I did crop damage control for 15 years with my hunting buddy where we had to take 100 deer a year off a big farm. One lessen we learned is it's not what you shoot them with it is where you shoot them. Shoot them in the gut and you may not recover them because they can go for miles. Shoot them in the heart/lungs and about 70% of the time they will run off a ways. They are dead but they just don't know it yet. Shoot them in the central nerves system and they drop in their tracks. You need to use a bullet that is constructed to accomplish putting a hole completely through your chosen impact direction to accomplish interruption of intended system. The only hogs I have ever killed have been domestic because where I live or have lived feral hogs have not been around. The domestic hogs were killed with a 22 long rifle bullet to the brain. So again it is not what you shoot them with it is where you shoot them. Oh, my Ford will out run your Chevy. [/QUOTE]
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