Cool Mr. W!
After reading through, I share some sentiments on how similar numbers/stats can show up visible differences in the field and on game....whether some would call it anecdotal or not. I haven’t shot nearly the numbers of hogs to get into the hog lung shooting debate on the HAMR vs 6.8 or others, but my less numerous hog/deer/coyote shooting and results led md to personally like the 6.8 over the Grendel , even though the numbers didn’t show much difference.....stuff died faster with the 6.8 than similar combos in the Grendel....for ME. Not saying it’s any how definitive, just a case in point that maybe even slightly more bore size does something differently on game. Could be we imagine it, too.... but sometimes your results and expectations are all that matter, in that regard. I’m tempted by the HAMR, but not sure I need it......but it could be the step up in emphasis from my 6.8 that’s seems to be getting harder to feed good factory fodder, without loading.....which is a trigger....as I’m just ‘meh’ on the blackout for hunting, and had rather not step to the ppc/Grendel case head size on an AR, again.
You sound like a perfect candidate for the 300 HAM'R! I agree with you 100 %, there are times when things just seem to die quicker. I still have a mental picture of a black bear ingrained in my mind. It just crumbled! Plus, the first time I took a 300 HAM'R out after hogs the first shot downed two. I repeated the process with the second shot and had four hogs in two shots. (I told Bill Wilson he was going to have to listen to me talk about it for years!) If anyone has looked at the "numbers" for this cartridge, I have. Yet, It's hard to explain what my eyes have seen.
Now you can throw in the fact that surplus once fired 5.56 cases are everywhere and are easy to form, one of the best performing hunting bullets for the 300 HAM'R, the 130 gr. Speer HotCore, is as cheap as they come, and all you have to do is change a barrel. What is not to like.
