black whitetail kill with CZ grendel

[budiceale]

i've killed a hog and a coyote with this rifle but this is the first deer. he was spotted by several hunters on the place we hunt. the powers that be decided he needed to go and i was the lucky one to get him. used factory loads(alex arms) with 120 BT's. he was facing me quartering very slightly. the bullet destroyed the shoulder, traveled along the ribs breaking 4 or 5 of them and ended up between the back legs in the guts. total penetration about 3 feet. he ran about 20 yards. never saw a melanistic whitetail before. too bad he wasn't a 10 or 12 point!