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What can the 6.5 Grendel kill?
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 1507949" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>I had a terrible deer hunting trip this year but I did manage to kill one white tail doe with one of my 6.5 Grendel's. When I went on my annual 3 1/2 week deer hunting trip to Halifax Co. NC I discovered that black tongue disease must have hit my hunting land. In two and half weeks I only saw one deer and my hunting buddy only saw 3. This is a place that in the past 25 years you hardly went a day without seeing many deer and at night you better pay close attention when driving because you will hit one. For the first 15 years my buddy and I did crop damage control on this farm and we killed 100 deer a year and you could not even tell it made a dent in the population. I shot the deer that I saw because I needed the meat. This was the first kill with a Grendel. I was shooting a hand load that consisted of a Hornady case, CCI 450 primer, 28 grs IMR 8208, 120 Speer Gold Dot and from the 20" barrel it does 2550 fps. Shot was at 111 yards. Deer was facing me and I was hoping to recover the bullet so I shot it in the center of it's chest. At the shot the deer went down and did a little break dancing and was dead. When I processed the deer I found that the bullet entered center of the chest and really did a great deal of damage. When I pulled the hide down past the front shoulders the heart and lungs just poured out in a pulped liquid. From the hydrostatic effect the first two or three ribs on both sides were broken and the left scapula was broken causing the left leg to just flap. The bullet exited the belly about 6" in front of the crotch with a thumb size hole so it did hold together. I can't believe the damage it did. No pictures because I forgot to take my camera. I came home a week early because there were no deer. Such is life. One example does not make a norm but from what I saw the 120 Speer Gold Dot is a great game bullet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 1507949, member: 10178"] I had a terrible deer hunting trip this year but I did manage to kill one white tail doe with one of my 6.5 Grendel's. When I went on my annual 3 1/2 week deer hunting trip to Halifax Co. NC I discovered that black tongue disease must have hit my hunting land. In two and half weeks I only saw one deer and my hunting buddy only saw 3. This is a place that in the past 25 years you hardly went a day without seeing many deer and at night you better pay close attention when driving because you will hit one. For the first 15 years my buddy and I did crop damage control on this farm and we killed 100 deer a year and you could not even tell it made a dent in the population. I shot the deer that I saw because I needed the meat. This was the first kill with a Grendel. I was shooting a hand load that consisted of a Hornady case, CCI 450 primer, 28 grs IMR 8208, 120 Speer Gold Dot and from the 20" barrel it does 2550 fps. Shot was at 111 yards. Deer was facing me and I was hoping to recover the bullet so I shot it in the center of it's chest. At the shot the deer went down and did a little break dancing and was dead. When I processed the deer I found that the bullet entered center of the chest and really did a great deal of damage. When I pulled the hide down past the front shoulders the heart and lungs just poured out in a pulped liquid. From the hydrostatic effect the first two or three ribs on both sides were broken and the left scapula was broken causing the left leg to just flap. The bullet exited the belly about 6" in front of the crotch with a thumb size hole so it did hold together. I can't believe the damage it did. No pictures because I forgot to take my camera. I came home a week early because there were no deer. Such is life. One example does not make a norm but from what I saw the 120 Speer Gold Dot is a great game bullet. [/QUOTE]
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