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6.5 Grendel is complete !

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Tightened it all up today, and ran 5 rounds through it. Got real lucky on the bore sighting !

Sst's shot real well.

Lookin like I'll have a new coues rifle for this year !

I'm going to load 120 gr ballistic tips.

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Looks real good! What kind of velocity are getting/expecting from those 120s? 20" barrel?

 

I have a question regarding spent brass, specifically ejected brass. It is the only thing that keeps me from putting together a hunting upper in chamberings other than .223. I prep hundreds of LC brass at a time and when shot in the field I spend a few seconds looking for the brass and if I can't find it, I just chalk it up without much worry. Maybe its just in my head but I don't think I could just keep walking away from prepped grendel brass a slung all over on coyote stands. I suppose it wouldn't be so bad just filling one Coues tag a year.

 

Do you have any plans to add a catch bag or similar for field shooting?

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I'm not planning on using this for anything but range duty, and deer hunting.

A cheap brass catcher off EBay is next on my list.

About 8 bucks for one that velcro's around the end of the hand guard.

If I take it deer hunting, if I find any brass, great, if not, oh well.

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If I take it deer hunting, if I find any brass, great, if not, oh well.

 

 

This is the correct answer. I need to just shut up and do it!

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It's not a super cartridge.

I have too many 5.56 or 223 AR's.

I wanted something different.

This isn't a go out and blast rifle for me.

I could buy steel case wolf, and blast, but I wanted a precision shooter.

18" barrel, is long enough to keep a 120 gr Ballistic tips, at 2500 fps, but short enough, to be portable. Same with why I went collapsible, sopmod style stock.

I haven't weighed it yet ?

It'll be a decent up to 400 yard, deer rifle.

Not sure how well a ballistic tip will expand under 1800 fps ?

So after about 400 yards it will start being under that.

A coues may not need a lot of expandedness of bullet to get dead, but I owe it to the deer to have a bullet that may not act like a fmj.

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Looks sweet!

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The way I want it !

Here's first groups with 100 gr ballistic tips. Got some work to do. Hoping for close to 2700 fps.

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