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Anybody out there happen to have any experience with the mighty grendel against aoudad?
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I searched the forum and didn’t come up with any pictures. I threw in a youtube video of a Oryx hunt which is a pretty good size animal. Here are a few threads might be worth reading.
Swinestalker
03-11-2017, 09:34 PM
How did it work on aoudad swinestalker? I plan to use mine the next time I draw a hunt. My 308 put one down quickly in January. It did just fine. Slightly quartering away at about 160 yards. Bullet entered back of rib cage and broke the far shoulder on exit. Blood and bone fragments were found several feet beyond where the Audad was standing. It made it about 20 yards. The Grendel punches way above its weight. I built a 16 inch upper way back when it was first introduced. I likely had the first Grendel in Mississippi. We shoot lots of pigs. A lot of those pigs are big. We found it to kill hogs like the wrath of God. It is an even better cartridge now due to bullet and powder improvements.
cwlongshot wrote this 5-30-2018.
On another note I have taken three animals with the 120 NBT, first was a Aoudad goat at about 250 yards and other two where whitetails. Muzzle vel was 3100+ out of my 6.5x06. That goat has a thick hide and can be tough to drop. Mine dropped on the spot and altho it did not exit, it broke the shoulder and pulped the lungs. IIRC the deer where thru and thru but I don't remember exact particulars.
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Thank you for the input and resources, I have only been on one other aoudad hunt and I had big ram soak up a 130gr Barnes ttsx 270 win round. I plowed him straight into the shoulder, " which is what the guide told me to do", only to have him turn and disappear. 1year later my brother went to the same area and killed a 28" ram with a 270 round embedded in the shoulder blade. I still trust my 270 but this pretty little thing I call "the hammer" is too tempting not to take. I've read of statements saying the grendel devastates aoudad but figured I would check here for any first hand experience.Comment
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Aoudad only get to 300 lbs or so, well within the animal size capabilities for Grendel or .270.
Any time you shoot and animal and the shot does not do significant CNS damage, you should not be surprised if the animal runs. So you still have to do your part.Kill a hog. Save the planet.
My videos - https://www.youtube.com/user/HornHillRangeComment
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Mark LaRue successfully took down a bull elk at 400 yards using 6.5 Grendel, so you should be fine.
When David met Goliath everyone else said, "He's too big to defeat". David said, "He's too big to miss!"Comment
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I'm going to sneak my shot in through the armpit this time, I was originally told to draw a diamond from the top of the shoulder, to the "elbow", and lower leg then punch through. I like the idea of entering through soft tissue a whole lot more.Comment
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We have taken (myself or friends) quite a few nice aoudads on our place. They are tough as hell. Vitals sit lower than on most larger game animals. I'm sure you can take one with a grendel, but i damn sure wouldn't try it! Generally where you find them, the terrain makes it appealing to keep them from running after the shot as much as possible......Comment
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They are tough! But I don’t think it matters how big your gun is. I watched a guy shoot one behind the shoulder broad side at 80 yds with a 7 mag. The thing ran and he got another through the gut. It still made it 130 yds before falling.
My point; you gotta hit the right spot.Knowing everthing isnt as important as knowing where to find it.
Mark Twain
http://www.65grendel.com/forum/showt...2-Yd-WhitetailComment
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Read a magazine article a few years ago about using the Grendel on a hunt but it was high fence exotic hunt and his shot was 75 yards. Dropped him with one 123gr SST but that is a bit different than one hundreds of yards off. Agree with above they are tough but not bullet proof, put one through the vitals and it will die.
Where is your hunt taking place, Texas is pretty big place and there those things are expanding their range at least the free range ones are.Comment
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After my hunt with the run away ram, I hadn't even left Texas and saw a hunting show where one of the pig mans friends shot one twice with a 338 lapua. I didn't feel quite so bad after that. I hunt a little south of Llano tx, they are all free range on the two properties. I hear some say they are bullet sponges and some say they've killed them with 243's and 22 hornets. My brother told me he had one run 100+ yards and when he gutted him the heart was jelly. Seems like it all depends on the animals will to live. I am fully prepared to double tap if need be.Comment
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A friend of ours building our cabin shot one in the butt with a .270 and killed it. I had great fun at his expense on that one. Told him he killed the neighbors pet FFA project and they had called asking if we had seen it. It was one that had escaped from the lease next door.Comment
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The infamous Texas heart shot?Comment
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Nope, he can't even claim that it was standing broadside at about 130 yds across the gulley!!Originally posted by DaneNorthman View PostComment
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Sounds like a trick shot. I would love to hear his advice to a novice, "just aim for the ass".Comment
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Got a call to come help find a deer that had been shot Thursday afternoon and they trailed it for a couple hours, bumped it several times instead of backing out when they bumped it the first time. This was for a guy that had lived in the area his whole life and he described it as the biggest buck he had ever seen "that thing is huge, shot him in the shoulder broadside at 40 yards and cannot understand how he went that far". Went out Friday morning since I had that day off and put the dog on him 16 hours after they had lost the blood trail. Found his :huge: 8pt about 200 yards later fead, stiff and cold, the buck was a little 8 point with a 10.5 inch spread that had been shot in the lower part of the back leg with the one broken.
Never know what you will run into trailing wounded deer, One poor little buck from the next lease got over onto our place that was also described as huge turned out to be a little 6pt that had been shot from behind in the nuts.Comment
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