Fort Scott TUI Ammo For Hunting?

[Double Naught Spy]

I did a search of the forum and did not see where anyone had tried this stuff for hunting. This ammo is sold by Fort Scott as hunting ammunition. The bullet is non-expanding, solid copper that relies on tumbling as a destructive force in the body.

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The ad copy on this stuff sounds amazing.

Unbelievable Terminal Performance and Accuracy

Patented, Tumble Upon Impact® design
Superior penetration
Non lead, SCS® (solid copper spun) bullet

From the tree stand to the shooting mat, the 6.5 Grendel from Fort Scott Munitions® boasts unparalleled ballistic performance. Our lead free Tumble Upon Impact® (TUI®) design leaves devastating wound channels resulting in clean, ethical kills, and our CNC machined Solid Copper Spun (SCS®) bullets are guaranteed to hit your target time and time again. Whether you’re out waiting on a 200 inch deer to walk by your stand, or competing for first place in a PRS match, our multi-purpose 6.5 Grendel ammunition is guaranteed to hit right on the mark.

Unrivaled Performance
Our multi-patented Tumble Upon Impact® (TUI®) design was built with the hunter in mind. The projectile is designed to punch through hard objects such as bone, but once it comes into contact with soft tissue, it begins tumbling immediately resulting in massive wound channels. The hydro-static shock caused by the tumbling bullet is enough to disrupt and/or shut down surrounding organs, providing you with a clean, ethical kill.

Ballistic Excellence
When you need to really reach out and touch something, our CNC machined, Solid Copper Spun® (SCS®) loads are right on target. Each projectile is individually machined out of solid copper bar stock. When loaded, these rounds are guaranteed to be within + or - .2 of a thousandth, giving you the quality of hand loaded munitions inside a factory round. When you only get one shot, make sure yours is on the mark with the 6.5 Grendal or from Fort Scott Munitions®.

https://fortscottmunitions.com/6-5-grend...bulk-ammo/

Honestly, I am not sure how anyone can claim their bullet will necessarily cause hydrostatic shock sufficient for shutting down surrounding organs for a clean and ethical kill, but maybe I am wrong.

I am a little confused as to which bullet they are using. They sell three that vary ever so slightly...
.264-123-SCP .264-123-SCP1 .264-123-SCP2

...but the loaded bullet is described as "Solid Copper Spun (SCS®)"

The bullet's themselves are literally sharp pointed bullets. These would make for a fine scribe for softer metals, for example. My understanding is that they are very well made, very accurate bullets. Cool. Most everything I shoot is more accurate than I am, but I will take whatever help I can get.

After my apparent fiasco of trying to use the tumble concept with Wolf Military Classic 100 gr. ammo, I had said I would not be trying this FS TUI round, but mostly because I did not want to pay for it. It is not inexpensive ammo, even when ammo was much cheaper. However, a buddy of mine that hunts next door to one of the properties I hunt had gave me 60 rounds of the stuff. I wasn't going to turn it down.

I had stopped the Wolf tests early because the 100 gr. tumbling rounds just were not stopping or dropping hogs effectively. I even had some viewers who watched my vids say that I had outright missed hogs because they ran away, apparently looking unscathed. It is hard to get wound details on hogs you can't recover, so maybe I did miss those hogs, but strangely, hogs started dropping again once I changed back to my regular hunting ammo.

It has hard to be completely unbiased on any test if you know what type of bullet you are shooting. I do try to be open minded, however, knowing that some bullets will perform in manners that I don't necessarily like, but other hunters may. Jake believed from his testing that sometimes the ammo worked fine and other times that it may have penciled right through, given the hogs he had run off. He also mentioned difficulty in dropping running hogs. Hopefully, I can get on some hogs, make some kills, and see how the ammo is acting inside the hogs.

Today I will chrono the ammo, verify zero, and get on with my first of what I hope will be several hunts with Fort Scott, Tumble Upon Impact 123 gr. ammo. Hopefully, I can get some hunt results soon.