6.5 Grendel bullet

[bboswell]

Best hunting bullet to load for deer & hogs?

GO!

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Nosler Ballistic Tips. Velocity of the Grendel is too low for Barnes and slow enough not to blow these up real bad.

120 gr.

[whiplash]

I've had good luck with the same. .5 groups and good performance with expansion and penetration. 120gr.

[WTJim]

123 grain Hornady SST factory are sub MOA out of my rifle...

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Nosler Ballistic Tips. Velocity of the Grendel is too low for Barnes and slow enough not to blow these up real bad.

120 gr.

This or Accubond was my first 2 thoughts. Looking at sections of the 2 I think the hunting BT & Accubond are the same bullet with the exception of the bonding in the AB.

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This or Accubond was my first 2 thoughts. Looking at sections of the 2 I think the hunting BT & Accubond are the same bullet with the exception of the bonding in the AB.

Bonding will hamper the expansion. The regular BT is fine at the Grendel's impact velocities.

[Slick8]

Nosler Ballistic Tips. Velocity of the Grendel is too low for Barnes and slow enough not to blow these up real bad.

120 gr.

Agreed on the Barnes, they work best at maximum velocities imo.

This or Accubond was my first 2 thoughts. Looking at sections of the 2 I think the hunting BT & Accubond are the same bullet with the exception of the bonding in the AB.

I had really good performance from my 260 with 120 BT's. I'd go with the 100 or 120'something in the Grendel.

Not only the the AB bonded but it has a thicker jacket which requires more speed. It surely work but I fear expansion and fragmentation would be minimal.

IMO-a BT, SST, Berger or any other thin jacketed Bullet is the way to go with that round.

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Agreed on the Barnes, they work best at maximum velocities imo.



I had really good performance from my 260 with 120 BT's. I'd go with the 100 or 120'something in the Grendel.

Not only the the AB bonded but it has a thicker jacket which requires more speed. It surely work but I fear expansion and fragmentation would be minimal.

IMO-a BT, SST, Berger or any other thin jacketed Bullet is the way to go with that round.

I would love a 120gr Berger........but they do not exist nor do they have plans on making one. 140 is the smallest.

I use 120gr SMK on hogs (head/neck) and yotes violent expansion but still hesitant on deer.

[Mike D]

6.5 Grendel bullet

Man I just can't bring myself to shoot BTs on deer or hogs after my terrible experience with them out of my 260. They may be made better these days but once bitten twice shy applies to me.

I use the 123 grain SST in mine. I haven't killed anything with them yet but they shoot very well out of my 20" Bartlein 5R barrel.

I also have had good luck with the 100 grain TTSX bullets pushed as fast as I can safely get them.


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260 is pushing the bullet 400-600 FPS faster. That makes a word of difference

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I hit 2 does last year with 120gr TTSX. All I hit was ribs and there was virtually no expansion . One doe ran about 200yds with no blood trail. I watched her bed up in the field. Had she run into the woods I might have lost her.

I have killed 30 deer with the 120gr NBT. 20 were DRT, and 10 ran less 30 yards with huge. Blood trails and about 3 inch exit wounds.

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I hit 2 does last year with 120gr TTSX. All I hit was ribs and there was virtually no expansion . One doe ran about 200yds with no blood trail. I watched her bed up in the field. Had she run into the woods I might have lost her.



I have killed 30 deer with the 120gr NBT. 20 were DRT, and 10 ran less 30 yards with huge. Blood trails and about 3 inch exit wounds.

I have had similar results in 7-08. TTX consistently produced very small exits and 50-100 yard tracks. Granted these were lung shots not hi shoulder shots.

I now load Nos BT's for that gun and results have been great on a few hogs and 1 deer. 2 of the hogs I intentionally took quartering to shots and hit the point of the shoulder trying to get the bullet to blow up, both had exits the size of a beer cam bottom and took maybe 2 steps

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TTSX require high velocity or slamming bone. The 2 does I hit weee lung shots.

I can't tell you what they do on hogs.......I head/neck shoot pigs.

[Mike D]

Maybe I need to give them another try.


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Maybe I need to give them another try.


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Wasn't long ago that I shared your same feelings for any ballistic tip due to early BT's all being varmint bullets that exploded. Now a lot of really good bullets have plastic tips. IMO Nosler should have called their hunting ballistic tip something different so that more people would try them