8.6 Blackout

[Gerald Boyd]

Has anyone shot anything with this cartridge?? And has anyone heard of taking this same theory up a caliber or two? .45-70 600gr subsonic, fast twist barrel - 1:6 shooting a similar bullet?

 

[Bullthrower338]

My buddy shot a wt doe with the 8.6 last weekend and it worked great, now I want one!

 

[Hooknbullet2]

I just got mine. Haven’t had a chance to shoot anything with it yet. But I’ve got plenty of targets available as soon as I can make some time.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

My buddy shot a wt doe with the 8.6 last weekend and it worked great, now I want one!

@Bullthrower338
Cody you are just like a big kid in a candy shop.
Anything new you want or old for that matter.
Next you will want a 50 air rifle for deer hunting, 900fpshoukd get the job done
Bob

 

[Sarg]

A couple of them here with friends, but that 1in 3 twist is too specialised & needs expensive bullets if it is to work correctly.

One swapped out to a 1in 6 which works better.

But my argument is why not a 338 Federal or even 338/06 ?

I have shot lots of big animals with 500gr .458 bullets subsonic in standard twist 45/70 Gov & recently my 450BM does the same with bullets size to .456 or so.

I have a modern 50/70 Gov Single shot rifle & a .510 WSM in a bolt gun, a bit more smack but if I could afford 750gr Maker bullets it would exceptional.

I even now have a .577 barrel & musing on a Nitro .577 Snider cartridge.

 

[Gerald Boyd]

A couple of them here with friends, but that 1in 3 twist is too specialised & needs expensive bullets if it is to work correctly.

One swapped out to a 1in 6 which works better.

But my argument is why not a 338 Federal or even 338/06 ?

I have shot lots of big animals with 500gr .458 bullets subsonic in standard twist 45/70 Gov & recently my 450BM does the same with bullets size to .456 or so.

I have a modern 50/70 Gov Single shot rifle & a .510 WSM in a bolt gun, a bit more smack but if I could afford 750gr Maker bullets it would exceptional.

I even now have a .577 barrel & musing on a Nitro .577 Snider cartridge.

Got a .404 Jeffery being built on a Winchester 1917 action and a .45-70 Mauser. It went with me on the last Namibian trip, pictured kudu fell to 300gr TSX

 

[Dirtdart]

Has anyone shot anything with this cartridge?? And has anyone heard of taking this same theory up a caliber or two? .45-70 600gr subsonic, fast twist barrel - 1:6 shooting a similar bullet?

I mounted a scope on a friends custom lever action in .45-70 Whisper several years back. If memory serves SSK did the work and he was using a 600 grain bullet.

 

[coyote wacker]

I built a 8.6 Blackout on a Remington 700 sized 308 brass then neck turned the brass on my lathe. Shot it under 20 times got interested in a 308 instead because I change hunting areas and longer shots were more likely than short range and took the barrel off, everything been sitting.
For sub-sonic its is a lot better than 300 BO for hunting heaver bullets are on the plus side.

 

[Nhhunter]

They work great especially with the new 200 grain Barnes tac bullets. As far as the subs go Iv heard of a lot of success with but have not hunted with them. I can tell you they hit steel really hard