stronger bolt material for high pressure loads??

[bwaites]

I am not saying a high bc is a bad thing I am just saying people tend to get hung up on bc when inside of 300 yards it's just a number and doesn't have all that much effect on the bullet flight for hunting purposes beyond 300 yeah it starts becoming very important and if starting with a fresh bullet why not get as high a bc as reasonable and preferably get a lower expansion velocity if you copy the 123 amax profile in a monolithic with an expansion threshold of 1300fps that would probably be just about ideal for the Grendel

That said 90% of hunting happens inside 200 yards....

Probably well more than 90%, and from what I've watched at the range when hunters are "sighting in" their guns its a good thing! 6-8 shots at 100 yards, "yep, still zeroed from last year" then pack it up and gone! No practice, no change in distance, 100 yards and that's it!


Here in Eastern Washington, where terrain is like Wyoming, much of Montana, or parts of Utah, Idaho, and Eastern Oregon, sometimes it takes a bit more range. A good friend dropped his deer at 427 yards, and his son dropped his a few minutes later at 275. (No not with Grendels, he likes RUM's.) I can't figure it out, because he admits that 20-30 rounds of practice and he feels like he has been in a boxing match!