They can root up more than they're worth! I detest those sorry son-of-a-bacons immensely!
What bullet for hogs 6.5 Grendel?
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dougduey
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You sound like my ranch owners friends.............."just gut shoot them so they run off and have a slow miserable death"!! The destruction they cause is unbelievable
slowshot18
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I use the Wolf 90 grain grendel ammo. If I want to find the pigs, I shoot them from the front side of the shoulder to the head (in that general area). If i don't want to find them, they get shot where ever else. Same works for 5.56/223 FMj cheap ammo too. I prefer the run off on their own method the most.
Tex Hancock
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I love the Hornady SST 123 gr, and it is deadly on hogs, but the 124 gr hammer bullets are superior in my opinion!
isaaccarlson
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I like head/neck shots, and any bullet will do just fine if that's your route. If you just want to "spray and pray", use something better.
Some overly, wishful, velocities, even out of a 24" barrel! The 6.5 Grendel just doesn't have powder capacity to attain those speeds, with a 6.5mm bullet.
6mm yes for sure!
What? Here is what QL spit out for a Speer 90gr, 24" barrel and an AR bolt limiting 52000psi, and NON-compressed loads. I blocked out actual charges.
The fact that you DO think the same parent case CAN do it with a smaller diameter is just well...
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I have a 20" 6.5 Grendel. Worked with it for solid 12 months, with 90-130 grain bullets, most of the "recommended powders" and the powders that weren't on any list, primers also and in the end, it was still only a 650 yard max range cartridge, at my Colorado high plains atmospherics, just fell flat on it's face! I'm waiting on a 6mmARC barrel, only because, I didn't want to go through the expense of a custom 6mmAR barrel.
Oh yeah, this a Long Range Hunting forum. Lot of folks around here tend to put that to the side.
Its crazy to see the WILDLY varying bullet choices that people consider deadly for hogs in this thread. Varmint tnt's fmj's partitions etc. You couldnt get any wider range.
Never seen such nonchalance from hunters on this forum before.
Never seen such nonchalance from hunters on this forum before.
Varmint probably isn't tough enough, but not 1 single thing wrong with fmj! I've been killing pigs for 44 years with fmj and 90% have been 55gr.
If you need some help eradicating them, just let me know!
