Hunting Ammunition

[BVickery1974]

In gel test the hornady black went 1” further than the sst and beautiful double expansion plus mushrooms. The Grendel with 120-ish gr bullets is the magic velocity range to make cup and core match style bullets pure magic on big game inside 350-ish yards but more importantly inside 250 yards where 98% of all game is taken.

I’ve been running hornady black from 16.1” to 24” barrels on 7 head of big game game now with average 151 yard shot distance and 4.3 yard recovery distance. Bull moose, 3 whitetail bucks, one massive body old muley buck, one bighorn sheep ewe and one 5’ black bear.

It’s magic efficient, perfect penetration depths while dumping all the energy along the way.

The only other bullet of interest to me is the barnes tac tx 115gr which is designed to open at low velocities. Haven’t seen a single recovery of this bullet yet in game or gel to verify. It’s bc sucks compared to the 123 and it’s loaded too slow from barnes in factory ammo so to me it’s a reloaders bullet or a 300 yard or less option only with factory ammo. Otherwise nothing does more than the hornady black. You can’t go wrong with that 123 gr eld-m at Grendel velocities...it’s the equivalent of a 30 cal 168 gr in terms of penetration and aero.

Thanks. Got a box of those and some 120gr Speer Gold Dots