Sportsmans Warehouse has a new store in DFW Texas and is selling some blue box Federal somethings loaded in Speer Grand Slams. The GS loads are running about $15 for standard calibers and $19 in 7's & 300Wmgs which is about 60% the price of premium grade bullets in the red/orange box. My question is...has anybody used these bullets on White Tails and hogs, and what was your experience with these bullets?
OBTW Sportsmans Warehouse is supposed to open about 15-20 stores in Texas and are moving into the Baltimore/DC market I think is what I heard late this year.
Any comments would be appreciated.
Ron

The Grand Slams I am familar with are the two core types where two cores of different hardness is swaged into the cup. I understand they are now controlling the expansion with different wall thickness in the cup and using one "mix" of lead.
By any road, my experiences with them says they are a mite hard for whitetails. That is to say the 100-150 pound whitetails I am familar with. I have shot antelope thru elk with them. With good success. You do need to shoot for the exit hole however when shooting 'lopes and whitetails.
If you're one of those fellows that wants to take out both shoulders and leave a quivering pile of disgust behind, then these bullets would work wonderfully well for you.

The Speer Nitrex are the old dual core Grand slams. I believe that the ones in the blue box are the "NEW" Grand Salms. I also personally believe that the new GS is the Deep Shok, one and the same. Take a look at the pics of a deep shok and the description of the new GS and youll see what I mean.



Im glad I bought some when they were called Deep Shok's and were half the cost. Just wish I would have bought more.

I am mostly a meat hunter for the skillet that likes to take head and neck shots on both sex's since most of the bucks I see are not worth wall hanging except for the occasional inbred freak. On the other hand I do like to eat what I shoot and want to achieve DRT on the target with little or no tracking involved ...getting lazy in my dotage I guess. Sounds like I need to try some of this ammo and wage war on the ever expanding hog population of North and West Texas. My Bro in Laws place in central Texas near LaGrange is under a 5 county wide state mandated management program that is showing some strong success with bucks reaching 4-5 & even 6 years old and growing some really decent heads... Maybe next year I'll get one of his deer besides a flat topper. Thanks for the input guys,
Ron

I used the 120's in a 257 WBY when I couldn't get the premiums to shoot. I fired 2 shots at game and 2 Elk filled my freezer. The tip of one was deformed to one side, probably due to bouncing off a rib. The other one was a close neck shot that was never recovered. Neither Elk took a step. I was pleasently surprised with their accuracy and performance.

My brother, his boy, and I just got back from Africa. His son used a 7mm Remington Magnum with 160 Speer Grand Slams. He shot 7 animals from a zebra, oryx, down to an impala. The Grand Slams dropped everything with one shot and we only recovered one bullet. That bullet looked just like a Nosler I recovered from a wildebeest, missing the front half of the bullet.

I've shot a bunch of mule deer and 9 elk with Grand Slams and they have all gone all the way thru the animal and none have moved from their tracks. I love the bullets for .30 caliber and under, heavier, Swift A Frames get the nod. I should say, I reload and have never fired a shot at a game animal with a factory round, though.

I wasn't aware there had been changes to the Speer Grand Slam bullets. I've used the older ones successfully on moose in Ontario and been quite satisfied with them. The Grand Slam and Nosler Partition seem to be as good as anything else we're using. I don't know anything about the Barnes. Best wishes.

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