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Optimal Hunting bullet for 18in Grendels.
XcountryRider
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10-20-2013, 01:53 AM
rickOshay Wrote:Stay above 2000 fps for the TTSX.


Thanks good advice. That should not be an issue with the 100gr even the 120TTSX flys from my rifle. What do you think i should start at for a 2520?
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10-20-2013, 02:26 AM
XcountryRider Wrote:Thanks good advice. That should not be an issue with the 100gr even the 120TTSX flys from my rifle. What do you think i should start at for a 2520?

Accurate has data for the 100 gr TTSX, starting at 28.8 working up to max of 32.0

http://www.accuratepowder.com/wp-content...7-2-13.pdf

They also post data for X-term and the 100 gr TTSX.
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10-20-2013, 02:12 PM
rickOshay Wrote:Stay above 2000 fps for the TTSX.
This means that, if your muzzle velocity is about 2700 ft/sec, then the maximum hunting range one should consider with this bullet is about 300 yards.

The bullet will have trouble opening in soft tissue when the impact velocity drops below 2000 ft/sec.
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10-20-2013, 03:09 PM
JASmith Wrote:This means that, if your muzzle velocity is about 2700 ft/sec, then the maximum hunting range one should consider with this bullet is about 300 yards.

The bullet will have trouble opening in soft tissue when the impact velocity drops below 2000 ft/sec.

Thats fine for a pig hunting load i won't be taking pig past 200 at the very most. The last small pig was at 30 yards. Its to brushy here for long distance shots with a few exceptions.
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10-20-2013, 03:21 PM
XcountryRider Wrote:Thats fine for a pig hunting load i won't be taking pig past 200 at the very most. The last small pig was at 30 yards. Its to brushy here for long distance shots with a few exceptions.

That's Beowulf country!
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10-20-2013, 07:01 PM
bwaites Wrote:That's Beowulf country!


Nope because if a smaller meat pig come along i don't want to blow it up. The Grendel is perfect it can drop and big pig and not destroy a small pig. Its the goldilox pig cartridge.
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10-20-2013, 07:39 PM
XcountryRider Wrote:Nope because if a smaller meat pig come along i don't want to blow it up. The Grendel is perfect it can drop and big pig and not destroy a small pig. Its the goldilox pig cartridge.

Naw, you don't need to use a bullet in the Beowulf that will blow up. For pigs, you can use the solids, and they'll take a big pig no problems, and anchor a small pig right there! There probably is less meat destruction with a Beo solid than with any of the appropriate Grendel bullets, but since we don't have pigs up here, and I don't hunt anything that approximates them, I can't show you.
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