12-20-2021, 07:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-20-2021, 07:45 PM by Stinky Coyote.)
MISportsman Wrote:I ended up using the hornady black this year because I know it shoots well in my gun and it has been the easiest to find. So far so good! I shot a nice doe sat morning at about 130yds! It was a neck shot and all she did is turn around and flop over
I'm at 10 head of big game with Hornady Black now, average shot distance 213 yards, average recovered distance 12 yards. I dropped a fat Alberta Whitetail Doe at 420 yards this year quartering away in through middle of ribs and out through inside of opposite front shoulder with 1.5" exit and 15" penetration and everything above the heart destroyed. We have 1 moose, 1 black bear, 1 bighorn sheep, 5 bucks (1 mule deer, 4 whitetail) and 2 Whitetail Does. Six of those kills, including the 420 yard Whitetail Doe, from a 16.1" Ruger American Ranch barrel at 2386 fps launch and the 420 yard Doe had an 1800 fps impact. Very tough to beat that performance imo. No mono-metal will come close to replicating that 420 yard performance in a Grendel. The 123gr ELD-M is what maximizes this cartridges potential and it's wonderful that you can buy it in factory ammo that shoots so well. I see zero reason to reload unless it's just something you want to do and enjoy doing.