08-16-2013, 11:58 PM
Welcome. There are a lot of posts in the hunting section with hunters using 16" barrels, 14.5" barrels, and even 10.5" barrels on hogs and deer. I'm also a big fan of the .25-06. The trajectory of the .25-06 makes it an excellent antelope and medium game cartridge for regions out here in the West, where you often need more reach. I grew up on the .270 Winchester, which is a very popular cartridge for the same reasons.
A 16" Grendel will easily handle deer and medium game at 200yds+. With the 123gr SST, you still are at 1800fps out to 350-410yds, depending on muzzle velocity, but I still think shot placement is most important, which leads me into one of the main lures of the Grendel:
You can literally blast away all day long with a lightweight 16" 6.5 Grendel, and shoot small clusters at 200yds, 300yds, 400yds, or whatever the accuracy potential is between you and the system. Your kids can do the same, and there is little felt recoil or muzzle blast. For getting up into the stands, an AR15 carbine is hard to beat, unless we start talking about a Henry Rifle or TC Contender pistol.
It's hard to find an easier system to train with, and become practically-accurate with for field conditions. You start off with an action that is inherently accurate, drop in a good trigger or do some easy trigger work, buy 10 boxes or more of some factory ammo, and get good with the carbine, to include shooting from the same positions you will use in the field.
Here's a thread discussing your very topic, with mention of a deer shot at a lasered 437 yds. http://www.65grendel.com/forum/showthrea...sues/page3
A 16" Grendel will easily handle deer and medium game at 200yds+. With the 123gr SST, you still are at 1800fps out to 350-410yds, depending on muzzle velocity, but I still think shot placement is most important, which leads me into one of the main lures of the Grendel:
You can literally blast away all day long with a lightweight 16" 6.5 Grendel, and shoot small clusters at 200yds, 300yds, 400yds, or whatever the accuracy potential is between you and the system. Your kids can do the same, and there is little felt recoil or muzzle blast. For getting up into the stands, an AR15 carbine is hard to beat, unless we start talking about a Henry Rifle or TC Contender pistol.
It's hard to find an easier system to train with, and become practically-accurate with for field conditions. You start off with an action that is inherently accurate, drop in a good trigger or do some easy trigger work, buy 10 boxes or more of some factory ammo, and get good with the carbine, to include shooting from the same positions you will use in the field.
Here's a thread discussing your very topic, with mention of a deer shot at a lasered 437 yds. http://www.65grendel.com/forum/showthrea...sues/page3