New Grendel Hunter

[Double Naught Spy]

Hi all,

I just built a couple of Ar's in 6.5 Grendel. A 20 inch and a 24 inch. I have taken 3 deer with three shots with Federal Fusion ammo. Shots at 50, 75, and 260 yards.

The Federal Fusion Ammo is working well on deer.

Any thoughts on any better ammo for deer or hogs? All three deer dropped straight down with lung shots.

Don't expect a double lung shot to drop a hog in place, not without the bullet going through the spine in the process. Instead, expect the hog to run 40-100 yards before crashing, maybe more if you don't get good damage on the 2nd lung. If you don't do significant CNS damage (brain, brain stem, spinal cord), expect the hog to run. You can get said damage by direct impact (the bullet hitting those structures or pushing broken bone into those structures) and if you are lucky, by indirect impact from hydrostatic shock (causing distant brain, brain stem damage) or hydraulic shock (causing local damage long the wound channel).

Fusions, like Gold Dots, tend to open up and make nice tunnels through hogs. If you want to eat the hog, then they are good ammo choices that don't shed much weight going through the animal, as are numerous other bullets. If you are just wishing to kill hogs, go with something that comes apart and and generally does a lot more internal damage along with getting good penetration such as Hornady SST 123 gr., Speer TNT 90 gr., Berger VLD-Hunting 130 gr. There are other choices as well, but these are the three that I have found that work very well, the Berger being the overall most destructive and being the heaviest, having the least flat trajectory.