To tack on, it's been about a month back, but I tagged a buck and a doe with my 12.5" 6 ARC this year, about 30 minutes apart, using one of my hunting loads developed for my 18" ARC (103gr ELDx, 29.3gr LVR, 450s, 2.24"). Performance was quite good, first shot was a neck shot on the buck that dropped him and then a follow up to the heart from the bottom of the chest angled up the neck. The doe came in on the same trail about 30 minutes later and a shot at 60yds fragged her heart. The neck shot on the buck and the quartering shot on the doe exited.
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I love the shorty ARC for close in hunting, It's so handy with a can. I put it together about a week before taking those deer and didn't have time to do specific load development for it, so that's coming up after the holidays.