Hornady Black Grendel ammo - $29.99/box

[Armed Eye Doc]

DrFor those running low on ammo, this is one of the better prices in about a year.

https://palmettostatearmory.com/hornady-black-6-5-grendel-123gr-eld-match-ammunition-20rds-81528.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=daily_deals&utm_campaign=20220111&utm_term=morning&utm_content=91132

[98Z5V]

^^^   That right there is the ammo to beat, if you reload.  That's GREAT loaded ammo for Grendel. 

[Belt Fed]

Sold out already, i keep waiting on the fusion, but i think they stopped making it.

[jtallen83]

1 hour ago, 98Z5V said:

That's GREAT loaded ammo for Grendel. 

Just had the nephew drop off a box of this last night, his buddy has a Creedmoor, I benefit from a no return policy for once. I remember you being impressed with this load so I started squirrelling it away before I even had a functioning Grendel, and thankful I did 

[Armed Eye Doc]

Just now, jtallen83 said:

I started squirrelling it away before I even had a functioning Grendel, and thankful I did 

I have a case or three of them.  I should have ordered when I first saw the email.  I can always use more.  

[98Z5V]

3 minutes ago, jtallen83 said:

Just had the nephew drop off a box of this last night, his buddy has a Creedmoor, I benefit from a no return policy for once. I remember you being impressed with this load so I started squirrelling it away before I even had a functioning Grendel, and thankful I did 

It's probably the best loaded Match ammo I've ever used, in any caliber.  There's some badass NEXUS ammo out there, but this is the best Match load that Hornady churns out, caliber-regardless.  My main goal in life, when I got into Grendel, was to make better hand-loaded ammo than this stuff, and it was a chore to do. 

[Belt Fed]

What's a good loaded factory hunting round for the grendel other than the fusion?

[98Z5V]

2 minutes ago, Belt Fed said:

What's a good loaded factory hunting round for the grendel other than the fusion?

The Hornady 123gr SST loaded ammo is mean as fuk.  It's a great loaded hunting ammo.  If you can find the Nosler 129gr Accubond LR loaded ammo, that's about the best shiit out there for hunting.  Search hard, and it'll turn up somewhere, sometime, but it's nasty.  Look for this:

[shooterrex]

The 90 gr TNT works well in my guns. The Black put a doe right down a year or two ago. I also get good groups w/the Hornady American Gunner bthp. The wolf 100gr steel case does a good job on snapping 🐢.

[98Z5V]

Just for the record, this is hands-down the baddest factory loaded match ammunition that I've ever shot, and I've been shooting it for 10 years+.  It's made improvements over the years, and it's now badder than ever, as it leaves the BHA factory today.  The very first time I ever shot this stuff was prior to an Afghani-land deployment in late 2003, just so we could zero our M4A1s for it - and we were off!  

It took me the better part of 5 years after starting shooting it, to come up with a final load that actually beats it.  There isn't a factory anywhere, in any other caliber, that can beat the results of this stuff, and what it does.

2" groups at 300 yards, and it has to be a 10-shot string.  Or it doesn't leave the factory.  That's from an 18" barrel, too.  Mk12 barrel.

 

Edited January 12, 2022 by 98Z5V

[Belt Fed]

Thanks guys, i'll look for those. i know the fusion don't exist right now. i didn't know you could hunt with that black. i have 100 rounds of it now. I don't think mine has a red tip, i'll have to look.

[98Z5V]

14 hours ago, Belt Fed said:

Thanks guys, i'll look for those. i know the fusion don't exist right now. i didn't know you could hunt with that black. i have 100 rounds of it now. I don't think mine has a red tip, i'll have to look.

The Hornady Black Grendel is 123gr ELD-Match projectile, but there's no reason you can't hunt that.  It's going through, what you shoot.  You can hunt with any boat tail hollow point, too, don't let the naysayers tell you any different.  That 5.56 Mk262 ammo has been hunting 2-legged critters for 2 decades now, in some pretty wild terrain, and it performs extremely well on tissue and bone.

People think, for some reason, that you can't kill shiit DRT with match ammo.  Military history proves this assumption wrong.  Shot placement is key, as always.

Edited January 13, 2022 by 98Z5V