10-11-2011, 04:08 PM
r3dn3ck Wrote:i wouldn't feel right about using grendel on such a large animal. Anything below 2400lbs energy seems a little slim to me. I like 270cal 150gn and 30cal 180gn for animals of that size. Waste a couple pounds of meat or take the chance of losing the critter... I'll lose a little meat thanks. Headshots are showoff shots to be taken at very near range. I shoot neck if I'm within conversational distances and body for everything else.
Hmmmm....then no one should be bow hunting for elk or even deer. Arrows generally carry significantly less than 300 foot pounds of force. Mark Larue took an elk at 405 yards with one shot and a Barnes TSX from a Grendel with a complete pass through of the bullet. If the bullet goes all the way through, that would tend to make me believe it had sufficient energy to do the job.
BUT....I understand we all have to hunt with what we feel is ethical and correct. I wouldn't shoot at a game animal at any significant distance, but have no problem dropping coyotes at long range, because they are nuisances and pests. Even with them, I want a humane kill.
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