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In spite of the Grendel never really gaining traction down here in Australia, I decided it would be the ideal addition to the gun safe for a light weight mountain rifle. I picked up a Ruger American Ranch, the very last one available within a few hundred miles a week ago and took it, unfired, to a friend's sheep station. As this cartridge is out of vogue in Oz, I couldn't source un-primed brass anywhere, but managed to get a few boxes of Hornady Black 123gr ELD-M ammo.
I zeroed the rifle to be 2" high at 100 yards to give me a PBR on a 4" kill zone out to about 210 yards from my 16" barrel.
Being lambing season, the farmer was keen to have foxes taken out but advised that I was unlikely to see any as he had baited heavily twice during the previous two months.
He was right, I fired one shot all night. After spying a couple of young foxes leaping about I sat and waited for them to hold still for a second and sent the shot away. First surprise was just how far I had to walk to (in the dark) to find my fox.
The biggest surprise was finding both foxes DRT! I had hit the front one right on point of aim in the shoulder, passed through and taken out the top of both lungs and a chunk of spine on the second. Distance was ranged at 187 yards.
I believe I could grow to like this little Grendel - A LOT!
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I zeroed the rifle to be 2" high at 100 yards to give me a PBR on a 4" kill zone out to about 210 yards from my 16" barrel.
Being lambing season, the farmer was keen to have foxes taken out but advised that I was unlikely to see any as he had baited heavily twice during the previous two months.
He was right, I fired one shot all night. After spying a couple of young foxes leaping about I sat and waited for them to hold still for a second and sent the shot away. First surprise was just how far I had to walk to (in the dark) to find my fox.
The biggest surprise was finding both foxes DRT! I had hit the front one right on point of aim in the shoulder, passed through and taken out the top of both lungs and a chunk of spine on the second. Distance was ranged at 187 yards.
I believe I could grow to like this little Grendel - A LOT!
20241125_214318 Small.jpg
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