Grr-eat 8

[TedBrewer5]

I harvested my largest buck to date with my Grendel yesterday morning. The shot was a whopping 35 yards and he went 20 yards right towards me. Needless to say the 120 gr pro hunter did its job. [ATTACH=CONFIG]20002[/ATTACH]

[biodsl]

Congratulations!

[LRRPF52]

Congrats man!

How was he presenting at the shot and did he spook?

[EastTNHunter]

I harvested my largest buck to date with my Grendel yesterday morning. The shot was a whopping 35 yards and he went 20 yards right towards me. Needless to say the 120 gr pro hunter did its job. [ATTACH=CONFIG]20002[/ATTACH]

Nice deer. Did you hit bone? Did you get a pass through?

[Konocti's Wigwam]

Nice looking buck!

[Jake TN]

Great deer. Congrats

[sundowner]

Congrats on that great looking buck .

[TedBrewer5]

He was slightly quartering away 35 yards from me.I was 25 ft up a pine tree in a climbing stand. Shot hit behind the shoulder on my side and went out in front of the off shoulder. He just shuddered at the shot but didn’t run off as the shot was pretty quiet if you know what I mean. Once he felt it he wobbled my way and died close to me.

[Stinky Coyote]

It’s remarkable how the game doesn’t seem to hear the Grendel. The more you shoot at animals the more you’ll see this phenomenon.

Congrats, great deer.

[LRRPF52]

I was talking with one of my local Sportsman’s Warehouse gun counter guys, and his daughter just took a mule deer with her Howa 6.5 Grendel.

It took her 5 times before she connected because she is quite small, but the deer didn’t seem to notice that anyone was shooting at it.

When you suppress, it becomes even more stealthy in that regard.

[TedBrewer5]

A can definitely helps.

[CJW]

Ted that is a dang beast, congratulations!


Chuck

[BL2551]

nice buck! hoping to tag one with my newly built 6.5 G in about 2 weeks when our gun season opens.

[empTshell]

That is a nice looking buck! Still need to get one with mine. I get mostly hogs with mine right now.

[BL2551]

Congrats! That's a great buck! I just took down my first buck on our 11/11/2023 rifle opener with the 6.5 G upper I built less than a month prior.

[TedBrewer5]

Congratulations on your buck. What gun and load are you shooting?

[BL2551]

Congratulations on your buck. What gun and load are you shooting?

not sure if you were asking me... I am shooting a 16" barrel 6.5 G AR I built.Using Hornady balck 123 gr eldm bullets.

[Double Naught Spy]

It’s remarkable how the game doesn’t seem to hear the Grendel. The more you shoot at animals the more you’ll see this phenomenon.

Congrats, great deer.

This is one of those issues where behavior is confused with capability. It isn't that the deer or other critters can't hear the noise. Snap a twig while making a stalk and I have seen heads turn from 75-100 yards away. So the issue isn't that they can hear the Grendel, suppressed or otherwise, but that they aren't reacting in the manner you expect.

Apparently, animals perceive the world quite differently. They don't understand external ballistics. Many don't understand being shot at until they are shot at, sometimes more than once. People have this problem as well.

Here is a great example. It could be argued that the deer didn't hear the gunshot because he doesn't react to the sound of them in a manner we would expect, but the deer obviously hears just fine as he responds to the grunt tube. The rifle appears to be unsuppressed. The deer doesn't leave until after the 3rd shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiq8uVMTaBY

[kmon]

Congrats on a great 8, well done sir.

First buck I had run toward me after the shot was years ago with an 18.5 inch barrel 7mm-08 not exactly a quite gun. I think they get hit and run simple as that sometimes straight sometimes right angle. Several since then have run toward me after being shot, one was a doe at 450 or so yards. She ran about 75 yards stopped looked back where she had been got the wobbles and fell over on a pasture road making for very easy recovery. Both of those actually ran, stopped and looked back at where they were when hit before toppling over.

A deer is hit with a bullet before it can hear any noise from the shot but just barely. I think they know something painful happened and run some direction. People think they are being charged by hogs after they shot them but I think they were just standing where the hog ran.