Thread: 6.5 Grendel sst vs eldm

Originally Posted by Hook_Grass

Interesting, what was your range limit with the partitions? As for the bush hunting, you've got to seek it out. Marlborough sounds can be good in the right spots or down home towards Kaikoura you've got the sawcut gorge and the lower Clarence doc stuff. A dog makes things a bit more successful because it's mostly tight but the newish block down there has some nice mature beech with an eaten out understory.

Shot a wap cross at 256 and fallow about the same. I'm of the old school tho, I get as close as possible and then try n cut the distance again by 50 percent. Stalked a bull from 600 to about a125 and the wind changed driving a big red in velvet out from under me whom I shot first then the bull, this was with 100 gr partitions.

That's pretty versatile, I'll definitely have to work a brew up for those 100gr ones then. I'll stick to the sst for a cheap goat load. I'm not a long range shooter, my best Chamois buck was a long 12 paces away. Infact 104m is as far as I've needed to stretch for one of them, I do occasionally shot over 300m but as you say getting closer is nearly always an option. A good mate who's shot more tahr than most hasn't shot a bull past 150m for many years now. Half the fun's in the stalk.

That's why I've taken up traditional archery.