09-01-2023, 07:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-01-2023, 07:38 PM by Stinky Coyote.)
I have no other experience in the grendel, that bullet is what drew me to the grendel, the grendel cartridge was just coincidental to be the one that pushed that bullet at the perfect velocities with no fat to do what I want to 500 yards. everything I used up to that was from .243 to 300wm but most of my previous hunting life was done with .270 win and .270 wsm with 140 accubonds. I have only ever bought and used hornady black from day 1 back in early 2018, the bullet and cartridge are a perfect match, would not want to shoot anything else, if they force copper one day for hunting I'll move up a powder class to compensate for the added speeds needed to offset the sad sd/bc of mono's. I'd move into the standard short action 308 type class and burn the low 40 grains of powder to get what I need from mono's...until then, the 123 eld-m in the grendel is all my safe is full of, cases and cases of it.