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Okay, I got this at the same time as the Speer Gold Dots and I have been dying to try it. It only required a very slight elevation adjustment and I was GTG. I still have Gold Dots to use and will get back to them.
I returned to the property where Ben and I double teamed a hog and as my experience with him, I had hogs move off into the no-shoot area before I had a chance to pull the trigger. The infuriating thing is that it happened twice while making my approaches. I don't think I spooked them. It just looks like that was the direction they were going, along with the last hog, only for this third attempt, I was waiting for him.
After finishing on that property, I was heading out and had one last property to pass before going to do the necropsy work and it had a hog. Not only did it have a hog, but it had a hog close to the gate and that didn't get scared off when I stopped the truck!!
So the night ended with 2 hogs.
Initial impressions of the Grendel Varmageddon is that it seems more fragile than the same weight Speer TNT bullet. The first shot to the face did not penetrate far, but went through a lot of bone. I have had Hornady SST 123 grain bullets fail to penetrate all the way through a head as well. Multiple layers of bone and bullets that come apart sometimes means that penetration will be limited, so this was not a good test. The next two shots were torso shots, neither of which went through heavy bone (only ribs) and neither of which managed to exit the thoracic cavity, both with <10" of penetration. This may be one of those cases where design intent matches application capability. It is a small sample and I will try again, but so far, the results are not impressive for hogs. With that said, the bullets did reach the vitals needed, but I have my doubts if they would have done as well if they went through more bone.
I returned to the property where Ben and I double teamed a hog and as my experience with him, I had hogs move off into the no-shoot area before I had a chance to pull the trigger. The infuriating thing is that it happened twice while making my approaches. I don't think I spooked them. It just looks like that was the direction they were going, along with the last hog, only for this third attempt, I was waiting for him.
After finishing on that property, I was heading out and had one last property to pass before going to do the necropsy work and it had a hog. Not only did it have a hog, but it had a hog close to the gate and that didn't get scared off when I stopped the truck!!
So the night ended with 2 hogs.
Initial impressions of the Grendel Varmageddon is that it seems more fragile than the same weight Speer TNT bullet. The first shot to the face did not penetrate far, but went through a lot of bone. I have had Hornady SST 123 grain bullets fail to penetrate all the way through a head as well. Multiple layers of bone and bullets that come apart sometimes means that penetration will be limited, so this was not a good test. The next two shots were torso shots, neither of which went through heavy bone (only ribs) and neither of which managed to exit the thoracic cavity, both with <10" of penetration. This may be one of those cases where design intent matches application capability. It is a small sample and I will try again, but so far, the results are not impressive for hogs. With that said, the bullets did reach the vitals needed, but I have my doubts if they would have done as well if they went through more bone.
Keep on Keepin on, your work is much appreciated.
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