LoL - They’ve had their money out of me over the years! My K95 was all about ‘getting back to basics’Gun Barrel Ecologist wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 3:16 pmGott im Himmel! A fixed power scope!???
Don’t you care about the retirement funds of optics company shareholders
WMH
Kipplauf hunting
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It's not a bad power for a rifle that's made for utilizing one well placed shot.
One of the Swarovski fixed 6x would have been great to but those fixed power big objective scopes are un-unbeatable in low light shooting.
One of the Swarovski fixed 6x would have been great to but those fixed power big objective scopes are un-unbeatable in low light shooting.
I'm soft and I don't care.
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I think this might be the first deer in the world to be shot with a K95 chambered in 350 Legend! I shot it today 12-5-19 so if someone beat me to it let me know.
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Nice! Congrats on another successful kipplauf hunt.
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Well done, congratulations.
Life is too short to hunt with an ugly dog.
Hunt with a German Shorthaired Pointer.
Hunt with a German Shorthaired Pointer.
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Dry nice, congratulations.
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Outstanding
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ThAnks everyone. I just shot the second deer in the world with the K95 350 Legend 8:15 EST. Having fun in Ohio.
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Congrats, how did the Legend perform and what load were you shooting? I suppose it is close to a 35 Remington which is very effective.
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Sorry if you already explained this but how did you get a barrel for the K95 in 350 Legend? Everything I've seen online indicates you would need to jedi mind trick someone at Blaser to agree to custom or have one custom modified.
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Here is how you get a 350 Legend barrel for a K95. Start with a perfectly good and accurate 222 barrel, drink a couple bourbons and send it to a re-boring and chambering specialist. On its return you notice that it will not chamber a round and have a mild meltdown. Call the re-boring guy and he tells you he is not a gunsmith and cannot figure out the extractor, then have a major meltdown. I searched the internet made some calls and found someone( A fellow Bud also put a link to who I used somewhere on here) who said they could fix it. I shipped it off in a cold sweat with a prayer and when he got it he could not figure out how to remove the little dohinky thing in the extractor that grips the case. I got him in touch with Blaser USA and the shared the secrets of the dohinky and removal of same. He fixed it and returned the barrel to me. It chambers and extracts just fine so I had a couple bourbons in celebration and relief. Then i had to find and buy a new 222 barrel to replace the one I re-bored to the 350 Legend. It ended up costing the price of a barrel and roughly $600. I am not sure how smart that was but I get to use my favorite rifle on my farm to hunt deer and I am already forgetting the stress and cost of the conversion.
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Bob,
I tried every kind of ammo I could get my hands on with mixed results and ended up using the 150 grain Winchester Deer Season load. The first doe I shot was at 28 yards facing me at a slight quartering angle. i shot it in the shoulder and it went right down. Internally there was a decent amount of damage to the shoulder and the lungs and liver. The bullet did not exit and I could find no trace of it so I am thinking it disintegrated in the shoulder and fragments destroyed the lungs and liver(?). The second doe was again facing me at a slight quartering angle 86 yards out. I shot it slightly in front of the closest shoulder and it exited the rear half of the far shoulder. The deer ran downhill about 70 yards and went down. It was raining so I immediately went to the spot it was standing and there was a lot of hair and a small chunk of cartilage but no blood. It was very thick so I started looking and found it in a ditch still alive so I shot it through the head point blank. The exit wound was large and part of its stomach was hanging out the hole but was not punctured. I am not sure how the stomach could have come out that far forward. It was a good lung shot and a lot of shoulder damage (I may lose all the meat from that shoulder) so I was surprised how far it ran and that it was still alive. This bullet is pretty explosive and the only thing i can think of is that it is designed to expand at the outer limits of this rounds range 200-250 yards.
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It's a lot of work and trouble, but for something you really want then it's what's often needed and it makes you appreciate it more.
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Thanks, I've seen similar damage and results as you described on the second doe. It seemed the diaphragm was sliced as the bullet exited which allowed the stomach to protrude through the exit hole plugging it and not allowing any blood to flow out so no blood trail. I think you just got there too soon because in my case I waited a few minutes before taking up the trail, old bow hunting habits, and the deer was dead when I got there. Yours probably would have died very soon.MM wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2019 12:16 pmBob,
I tried every kind of ammo I could get my hands on with mixed results and ended up using the 150 grain Winchester Deer Season load. The first doe I shot was at 28 yards facing me at a slight quartering angle. i shot it in the shoulder and it went right down. Internally there was a decent amount of damage to the shoulder and the lungs and liver. The bullet did not exit and I could find no trace of it so I am thinking it disintegrated in the shoulder and fragments destroyed the lungs and liver(?). The second doe was again facing me at a slight quartering angle 86 yards out. I shot it slightly in front of the closest shoulder and it exited the rear half of the far shoulder. The deer ran downhill about 70 yards and went down. It was raining so I immediately went to the spot it was standing and there was a lot of hair and a small chunk of cartilage but no blood. It was very thick so I started looking and found it in a ditch still alive so I shot it through the head point blank. The exit wound was large and part of its stomach was hanging out the hole but was not punctured. I am not sure how the stomach could have come out that far forward. It was a good lung shot and a lot of shoulder damage (I may lose all the meat from that shoulder) so I was surprised how far it ran and that it was still alive. This bullet is pretty explosive and the only thing i can think of is that it is designed to expand at the outer limits of this rounds range 200-250 yards.
Those Deer Season bullets are very explosive due to the large diameter opening the plastic tip sits in at the front of the jacket. All the kills I've seen from the Deer Season bullet design were from a 308 and they completely fragment, but generally produce quick kills. Growing up, my best friend used a Marlin 336 in 35 Remington using the 200 grain Remington CoreLokt bullets and it seemed to kill deer quicker than my 170 grain 30-30 CoreLokts and Power Points did.
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