Recent content by Turpentine21

Early 70s VW bug withe the passenger seat removed so we could stack deer in there. It got better milage than the 79 CJ 7 I had at the time so we used it for distant tracts of land. The Jeep had a 3 speed with a 304 in it and would absolutely crawl. Both had their place. Honorable mention was...

I'm certainly glad we don't have to use copper. We go through a lot of bullets depredation hunting. While it wouldn't break me, It's an added expense I don't need right now.

Another bullet both of my Grendel's like is the Nosler 129 LRAB evidently made with a proprietary blend of very expensive Unobtainium. Very accurate over 26.6 of AR Comp. I have a stash from before supplies dried up. I have not shot it at game with the Grendel but do use the regular accubond...

I kill a LOT of deer with the Grendel since it is my main depredation round that I use with thermal. Distances range from 50 to 425 yards. I use eldm's and SSTs. I shoot mid to high shoulder and they drop in their tracks. My brother and his family kill 15-20 per year with his. He uses SSTs...

Factory 150s and my handload 150s will run 2785 or so in my 20" barrel but my rifle which is a 10 twist is way more accurate with 165-168 class bullets running 2620-2650 over AR Comp. The 150 SST is very good on game at reasonable speeds.

I may have missed it but what grain bullet are you using and what's your velocity with the suppressor.

I shoot my dpms g2. 7.5 pounds from the factory with a hunter profile 20" barrel and have zero issues. No brake, no suppressor. 168 amax in Winchester cases running 2650fps. Ar comp powder doesn't produce outlandish muzzle flash in a 20" barrel. The gun with my thermal and 10 round mag is...

I split time depredation hunting between my DPMS 308 g2 hunter (originally around 7.5 pounds from the factory) and my 6.5 Grendel. Both weigh about the same with ammo and my thermal. About 10 pounds. 20" barrel, No muzzle brake, no suppressor. I shoot 168 Amaxs in the 308 and they kill deer...

If I get a Grendel doing that I can usually eliminate the problem by tweaking the front of the feed lips on the mag. I generally tweak new mag feed lips before I even bother to shoot them. I have also changed bolts and had the problem go away. Try a different mag and see if the problem...

I have some old friends that run a serpentarium and they will certainly confirm that cottonmouths are very aggressive, and territorial. One of them was actually better by a cottonmouth and lost part of his hand. One reason they are believed to be so aggressively is that they are a relatively...

I was on a beverage drinking Sunday sandbar trip at my house. I came back from upriver. Tied the boat. Picked the nearest bush and started taking a leak. My nearest neighbor is a mile away. Very rural. Halfway thru the leaves started rustling. I have a bad prostate and very little pressure...

We wade a lot and fish the black waters of the river I live on In summertime. Cottonmouth's will absolutely come to you and I have had to swat quite a few with my fishing rod. Alligators take a whole different escape plan however. I've never walked on water, but I've come awful close.

Closest I ever got to rodeo riding. It is tough to stay on a hog

We had a hog operation when I was a kid and one of our favorite forms of entertainment was walking up behind the top hogs, 180 to 220 lbs, while they had their head down in the feeder. We would jump on, grab both ears, and see how long we could hang on. At 9 years old I considered that quality...

A cow or a horse can just plain hurt you even if they are just playing. This guy had 7 bulls, Charlais, Cimmetal, Angus, and the one Brangus. 3 of those bulls were 2600 pounds or better but they were pretty docile. Not so with the Brangus