Anyone else getting fed up with grendel?

[joker31]

I'm starting to get fed up with the availability of loaded ammo. I load and even I am starting to get fed up. I am tired of the high prices for bullets and the unavailability of components. I wanted to go shooting and didn't have the time to load in the next 2 weeks so I figure that I can just order some and it should be to my house by then....WRONG! Midway..nope ..psa ..nope midsouth, brownells ammoman, etc nope. I thought we were over this crap already. NOPE

The perils of the Grendel I guess.
Guess I will load some then dig on my hands and knees like Gollum to find my brass then decap then trim ...rinse lather repeat. I get so frustrated when people ask me about AR favorite chamberings. ...I wish I could recommend the Grendel but I don't want people to be pissed at me when they have their own $4000 unfired rifle at home. Now it looks like I have to recommend 5.56 or 6.8 or 300 AAC.

Too bad, I love the Grendel. But in the same way I love diamonds or Ferrari's.

[tackdriver]

I would suggest Precision Firearms, they almost always have loaded grendel ammo. It is all Lapua brass and I will buy it(brass)to offset your cost

[bwaites]

Natchez has loaded ammo, or did this AM. As noted, Precision almost always has ammo. There are a few others mentioned in a thread from this AM that may also have ammo.

The availability is slowly increasing. Wolf is carried by WalMart, and as steel case becomes more available, I would think that WalMart would get it, since steel case fits their demographic. When that happens it will be readily available everywhere!

Here's the thread from today:

http://www.65grendel.com/forum/showthread.php?8968-A-MAXs-available

[olde sarge]

bwaites, I sure hope you are right.

[cory]

Henceforth why the wolf steel cased ammo has been so anticipated. Hopefully now that it has hit the market, we'll soon be laughing at this problem the Grendel had at one time.

Go order a 500rd case from AA, before it's all gone. Right now it's reaching your front door in about a week. Mine will be here tomorrow.

[wheelguner]

Perhaps I am just mellowing in my old age but I have gotten accustomed to ammo difficulties for favored calibers. I had this occur with 17HMR, 204 Ruger and even 260 Remington before it became popular with the tactical community.
I am trying to learn to worry about things I can change and accept those I can't but I haven't gotten there yet (can you hear goombaya in the background)...... WHAT REALLY PISSES ME OFF IS THE SHORTAGE OF 22LR!!!!

[rabiddawg]

Goombaya? That a plate of jambalaya with gumbo on top?

[montana]

Save your money and when you find a good buy stack it deep and high. I learned my lesson years ago with the Clinton magazine and gun ban.

[dammitman]

i had had feelings about this before. i discovered stockpiling. i dont consider it hoarding because i shoot too much and there is rotation of stock. look into handloading and reloading and also, gunbot.net

[Keep The Change]

Goombaya? That a plate of jambalaya with gumbo on top?

I think you may have just created a new dish. This sounds awesome.
I grew up in coon-ass land and haven't thought of trying that. A tradition is serving a pot of white beans with jambalaya but never seen gumbo on jambalaya.

You power gumbo on white rice, why not pour it on rice with Andouille sausage & chicken in it.
You should trade mark it.

[jluck]

Drink when you're at the trough..... stock up when available. I got Hornady SST for 19 a box shipped and a friend one upped me by getting it online somewhere for 17. (Something) shipped. I also picked up a bunch of Lapua Sencar (sp?) For like 11-13.00 a box second hand. That was a score.

[Heywood]

Goombaya? That a plate of jambalaya with gumbo on top?

No. It is an old Italian campfire song...southerners...

[mongoosesnipe]

I hand load for nearly every caliber I own most of the time a set of dies doesn't cost much more than one box of ammo, the Grendel was one of the guns that when I built it I did not ever plan on seeing the ammo on the shelf of my local sporting good store if it shows up all the better but I basically consider it a wildcat with redaly available dies and brass I bought one box of aa ammo when I started my build as a benchmark and have never fired any of it, I own and shoot some guns for which ammo does not even exist , 41 swiss centerfire.

The Grendel is not going to have the availability of 223 or 308 anytime soon, but then again everyone else has one of those the price you pay for the exclusivity of the Grendel is the pain in the ass....

[LRRPF52]

Cabella's is listing as "in-stock". Same with Natchez.

I just buy it by the case and augment with hand loads. When ammo is cheaper in the spring for the spring sales, I buy it at the lowest prices and in volume. As ammo gets more scarce in the summer and fall, I hand load if necessary. I hate loading too, but it keeps me fed for blasting.

The sad thing is that it really pays off to use massive advertising hype and exaggerations in consumer targeting, and other calibers pulled that off in spades:

"Speshul forces is going to be using this, and then probably big Army too!" That gets the attention of big companies, who jump on the band wagon if they think it can be sold in those volumes.

It will be interesting to see how the ammo market changes as more barrel makers get on board now that steel case is here.

[Schwag173]

I hand load for nearly every caliber I own most of the time a set of dies doesn't cost much more than one box of ammo, the Grendel was one of the guns that when I built it I did not ever plan on seeing the ammo on the shelf of my local sporting good store if it shows up all the better but I basically consider it a wildcat with redaly available dies and brass I bought one box of aa ammo when I started my build as a benchmark and have never fired any of it. The Grendel is not going to have the availability of 223 or 308 anytime soon, but then again everyone else has one of those the price you pay for the exclusivity of the Grendel is the pain in the ass....

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