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My best 8 pt to date taken with the 16" Grendel - Bayouhunter1960 - 01-25-2020
123 gr SST 27.7 gr of AR Comp
Just about missed seeing the old boy
Shot him uphill at about 100 yds offhand in a cutover. I wasn't sure I had connected he actually run back towards me stopping at about 60yds. I had good front shoulder shot and dropped him there. After recovering him I found I had connected with both shots. The second shot finished him fast.
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My best 8 pt to date taken with the 16" Grendel - CJW - 01-25-2020
What a nice animal........Congratulations
My best 8 pt to date taken with the 16" Grendel - A5BLASTER - 01-25-2020
Congrats on the buck sir.
My best 8 pt to date taken with the 16" Grendel - peak98 - 01-25-2020
Outstanding, congratulations! Where on da bayou are you located?
peak98
My best 8 pt to date taken with the 16" Grendel - kpswihart - 01-25-2020
Nice
My best 8 pt to date taken with the 16" Grendel - Bigs28 - 01-25-2020
Congrats.
My best 8 pt to date taken with the 16" Grendel - Jkruger - 01-25-2020
Good job .... Nice shooting too.
My best 8 pt to date taken with the 16" Grendel - Bayouhunter1960 - 01-25-2020
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My Son and Grandson
Life long resident of Bayou La Batre, Al. For the past three years I?ve hunted in Pickens county Al, my son and I lease just under 500acres. It?s been a good year I?ve tagged three 8 pts weighing 200, 120, and 170. A 100lb doe and got a Grandson a 5pt. Weighing 165. My freezer will be full when I get these last two home.
To top off the season I helped my son get his youngest son his first buck 7pt 115lbs yesterday evening out of the woods. He?s 6 yrs old and made 80 plus yds shot across a food plot. I believe we have another life long hunter and firearms enthusiast in the making. He shot him low though the shoulders with a savage 243 the made it about 30yds into thick young pines and briars.
My best 8 pt to date taken with the 16" Grendel - 1Shot - 01-25-2020
Nice buck and sounds like you have had a wonderful season. Yep them bucks can slip right past you in a cut over. I hunted them for 30 years in east NC. First time I ever got to hunt this property, long story how I got to do it, was during muzzle loader season. I had never set foot on the property before. Was told to go down to this tower stand that over looked a pretty freshly done cutover. It was in the afternoon a couple hours before dark. I got into the stand and started scanning the cutover with field glasses, There were lots of piled up tree laps etc. All of a sudden I see this BIG buck about 75 yards from me. To me all I could see of him was his dead and about half of his neck above the brush. It looked to me that he was laying down. With the muzzle loader I was not going to take a shot at such a little target of that part of the neck on this BIG 10 pt. buck. I got on the scope and just watched him knowing that he would stand up at some time. All of a sudden his head turns completely around and it just moves off to my right and out of sight never to be seen again. Found out latter that there were deep ditches cut through this cutover that I could not see for drainage purposes and this buck was standing down in one and just walked off down the ditch. I know how it is to have to go into those young pines and green briars, which I call NC concertina wire. That same cutover that I was talking of within 5 years you literally had to get down on your hands and knees to crawl through most of it. The old dirt road that separated it and another patch of woods on the other side was my favorite hunting place because you could catch the deer coming out of the cutover going to the woods and soybean or peanut fields on the other side. My buddy and I killed so many deer on that road that the buzzards almost continually circled it because of the blood we used to say. LOL Keep that young one hunting. I refurbished an old Winchester bolt action that is a 243 Win and bought a scope and worked up a load and loaded up 50 rounds of ammo and gave it to a little 6 year old boy that is in my church. Hope to have him hunting with it this next season with his dad and grandfather. He killed a little buck with a cross bow this past season.
My best 8 pt to date taken with the 16" Grendel - Bayouhunter1960 - 01-26-2020
Thanks for the edit LRRPF52. I’m not sure how this Iphone leaves a question ? ! instead of what I type. If I do not take the time to go to preview post I miss the mistakes.
My best 8 pt to date taken with the 16" Grendel - sundowner - 01-27-2020
Congrats on the buck .
My best 8 pt to date taken with the 16" Grendel - Bayouhunter1960 - 01-27-2020
123 gr SST damage on this last buck I shot. My first shot was slightly uphill maybe 30ft to 100yd angle. The shot took him in his right side mid body angling slightly forward. After his turn and run towards my next shot just behind the left shoulder low angle was about level. I?m including the photos of the damage the two Hdy 123gr SST did behind 27.7grs of AR Comp COL 2.220?.
The load is very accurate in both of my AR?s
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