Quality trigger time on relevant target sizes, with an experienced mentor to guide you through stalking, are more important than the type of bullet, but the bullet should still be optimum.
6.5 Grendel allows you to get tons of trigger time without any recoil penalties, while being able to spot for yourself and immediately acquire positive-loop feedback, unlike larger cartridges, especially magnums.
That 14yr-old youth hunter in the above video was taken through repeated training at 500yds on smaller steel targets with a 24 6.5 Grendel, then guided by someone with over 100 successful elk hunts.
She made a great 1st-round shot into the vitals at 390yds, having settled into a solid field position that was familiar enough for her to be confident in it based on her training.
Ive seen dudes who maybe scratched into a few cartridges of their 20rd box of magnum ammunition for a rough zero, then blast away 6-8 rounds on opening day in elk season, with a wounded animal running off, never to be seen again.
Those same guys will tell this successful hunter that 6.5 Grendel isnt ethical for killing elk, theyre too tough, etc.
I would have agreed with them before I saw all the people who have filled their tags with Grendel, understanding their limits.
A big thing people overlook is running the ballistics up at elk altitudes, where we see them at 8,000 - 11,000ft in season. That increases the expansion threshold and ft-lbs performance of 6.5 Grendel a bit, but not into long range territory where magnums are appropriate.
In this video, he blames the bullet type for a hunting error where the animal is getting ready to move, which affected his shot placement, putting it into the hind quarters.
ELD-M works fine for killing, and any other type of bullet would have produced the same results with bad placement due to animal movement during the time of flight.
[video=youtube_share;8yCddWv62Ig]https://youtu.be/8yCddWv62Ig[/video]
6.5 Grendel allows you to get tons of trigger time without any recoil penalties, while being able to spot for yourself and immediately acquire positive-loop feedback, unlike larger cartridges, especially magnums.
That 14yr-old youth hunter in the above video was taken through repeated training at 500yds on smaller steel targets with a 24 6.5 Grendel, then guided by someone with over 100 successful elk hunts.
She made a great 1st-round shot into the vitals at 390yds, having settled into a solid field position that was familiar enough for her to be confident in it based on her training.
Ive seen dudes who maybe scratched into a few cartridges of their 20rd box of magnum ammunition for a rough zero, then blast away 6-8 rounds on opening day in elk season, with a wounded animal running off, never to be seen again.
Those same guys will tell this successful hunter that 6.5 Grendel isnt ethical for killing elk, theyre too tough, etc.
I would have agreed with them before I saw all the people who have filled their tags with Grendel, understanding their limits.
A big thing people overlook is running the ballistics up at elk altitudes, where we see them at 8,000 - 11,000ft in season. That increases the expansion threshold and ft-lbs performance of 6.5 Grendel a bit, but not into long range territory where magnums are appropriate.
In this video, he blames the bullet type for a hunting error where the animal is getting ready to move, which affected his shot placement, putting it into the hind quarters.
ELD-M works fine for killing, and any other type of bullet would have produced the same results with bad placement due to animal movement during the time of flight.
[video=youtube_share;8yCddWv62Ig]https://youtu.be/8yCddWv62Ig[/video]
NRA Basic, Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun, RSO
CCW, CQM, DM, Long Range Rifle Instructor
6.5 Grendel Reloading Handbooks & chamber brushes can be found here:
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CCW, CQM, DM, Long Range Rifle Instructor
6.5 Grendel Reloading Handbooks & chamber brushes can be found here:
www.AR15buildbox.com