Anyone Here Hunt Deer with a 6PPC?

southernman said:
Ive carried my sako 6ppc sporter deer hunting but not shot a deer with it, i do also have a 6x45, and have shot multiple deer with it,
Mostly with 85 gr, but 4-5 deer with the 75 gr Serria bullet, worked fine.
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That's interesting, southernman. I've wondered whether the barrel twist in the Sako 6PPCs is too slow for 75-80 grain bullets. Do you know the twist in your Sako 6PPC sporter?
 
Yea its one and 14, and at its limit with a 80 gr flat base bullet,
The 75 gr Serria is an acceptable bullet for small deer, this would be my choice, not sure, if there is a barns bullet suitable, that would stablize in a 1-14,
Hammer might have sumthing worth trying.
My 6x45 (6x.223) is 1-10 twist, so a better choice, with only a little bit less powder capacity.
 
southernman said:
Yea its one and 14, and at its limit with a 80 gr flat base bullet,
The 75 gr Serria is an acceptable bullet for small deer, this would be my choice, not sure, if there is a barns bullet suitable, that would stablize in a 1-14,
Hammer might have sumthing worth trying.
My 6x45 (6x.223) is 1-10 twist, so a better choice, with only a little bit less powder capacity.
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So it's 1:14. Will it fully stabilize the 75 Sierra? And an 80 flat base? If it will that impresses me. I had somehow thought that a 70-gr flat base would be the heaviest that would stabilize in a 1:14. I don't hold out much hope for the all-copper bullets, like the Barnes and Hammer, stabilizing because of their greater length owing to not having a lead core.
 
Had the Sako rifle in question. The 70gr Nosler ballistic tip was the best pitch, followed by the 55gr N-BT. 75 and 80 gr bullets won’t stabilize.
 
My 1:14 6x45 stabilizes 85 grain nosler solid base and partitions out to at least 200 yards. Lots of mojo between barrels it seems.
 
Was an old article in one of the 'shooting' annual's I recall about the 6PPC used successfully for deer by the author's wife fwiw
 
6mm ARC has about the same case capacity as the PPC, 1:7.5 twist barrel and factory ammo available. My kid's 18" 6mm ARC shoots factory 103gr ELDx ammo @ 2565 fps
 
South Pender said:
So it's 1:14. Will it fully stabilize the 75 Sierra? And an 80 flat base? If it will that impresses me. I had somehow thought that a 70-gr flat base would be the heaviest that would stabilize in a 1:14. I don't hold out much hope for the all-copper bullets, like the Barnes and Hammer, stabilizing because of their greater length owing to not having a lead core.
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Both the Sako 1-14 twist 6PPC's, and my 1-14 twist 6x47 Remington, will stabilize the Serria 75gr, (#1510) and a flat base 80gr is inside an inch, for 5 shots at 100m, the 75 is 1/2" five shot groups or better, I've got plenty of 0 .800 five shot groups at 200m with both rifles, you will just have to try, and see if your rifle likes them, both of mine will shot a 85gr Serria soft point to 1-1.5" at 100m, good enough for hunting smaller deer to 200m, but obviously starting to become unstable. These small cals, aren't suitable for long range, so i don't see the point, in being overly concerned, about the tightest groups,
 
Never shot a deer but shot quite a few coyotes .22 PPC and .22 BR and a wolf with 6mm PPC... I had a pair of PPC Ruger Varmint rifles for a few years... both very accurate, but they were too heavy and unwieldy for my taste, especially hauling them around on snowshoes or cross-country skiis in heavy snow.
 
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