Took my 20in grendel rifle huntin yesterday to a friends place. He had mucho deer there so five us went for a meat hunt. He told me he had a buck that had somehow lost both sides of his rack running all the deer out of the field and wanted him shot. No problem I said, if he shows up I will shoot him. Well he did and I did. I was itching to try the 123 sst round on him to see what it could do. I shot him at about 75yrds kinda low behind the shoulder. The deer ran about 80 yds with a good blood trail. The bad news was when I went to find him he was bedded down in the woods looking at me so I put one in the neck and finished it. I rolled him over and the exit wound from the first shot was about the size of a fifty cent piece. I was surprised he was still alive. Next time I'm going for a shoulder hit. No pics of the deer because I didnt take any. I'm going to load up some 100 gr partitions and test them out. By a the way it's my first kill with the grendel.
Blood on the new Grendel
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Congrats on the first kill!
So you didn't like the performance of the SST ammo? Too much damage?Kill a hog. Save the planet.
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No I think the SST did its job, I just was puzzled by the deer not being dead when I got to it. I'm going to shoot one through the shoulders with the sst before the I make a determination. I'm partial to partition bullets so I will load some 100 gr and see how the do. I bet they will be the ticket pushed about 2700 to 2800 ft a second.Last edited by Austkare; 12-24-2017, 07:13 PM.
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