Sorry, no video this time. Pulled the cable at some point during the night and missed out on both kills. However, I still gathered some good information on the performance of the CBB MKZ 105s.

The CBB 105s seemed to do very well. The first hog was a boar at my place in Forestburg, Texas that weighed 220 lbs. He came in downwind of me and was smelling the air and such and so I decided to take him immediately. DRT @ 125 yards. The shot entered the left side of the nose, traveling through the nasal sinuses (turbinal bones) and out the palate into the throat below the brain case and traveled through the neck into the thoracic cavity, missing the lungs but damaging the heart. It did not make it through the diaphragm. No bullet recovery. Going to have to buy a metal detector.



Hog #2 was killed in St. Jo, Texas. The first shot was at over 150 yards and entered behind the right scapula and traveled diagonally and exited further back on the rib cage, breaking ribs on entry and exit. The hog ran. Either Shot #2 or #3 missed and one connected, passing through the Achilles tendon of the left leg and striking the tibia on the right leg, breaking it, and then exiting. Shot #4 was a broadside shot as the hog ran and entered behind and just below the ear on left and exited about the same place on the right, passing through nothing but soft tissue/muscle tissue, making no contact with the cervical vertebrae or the skull. However, an apparent overpressure situation resulted and blood and other matter were ejected from the right ear.



Thoracic cavity exit...

Behind the ear exit...



Ejecta from the ear...

That's some heavy damage for such a light projectile - I'd say lock the 105 MKZ in as a sweet spot for the Grendel.

Are you leaning towards the 105 or 118 grain as more effective thus far ?

You know, I got better groups with the 118 out of MY rifle, but the 105s were still a tad under 1" at 100 yards.

Even so and as you say, the 105s are doing a lot of destruction for being such light bullets. I could be happy either way, but I would probably be more comfortable with the 118s for hog simply because it is a substantially heavier bullet.

If I get to shoot some heavy bone with the 105s, clipping a humerus on the way in, for example, and it still performs well, then 105 may be the way to go.

The CBBs are a mono-metal bullet and from most that run Barnes bullets what I keep hearing and reading run them light for caliber and fast for best results. If the 105 CBB doesnot shed its petals it will be heavier after doing the damage than a 123gr SST