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Well guys, the Grendel continues to impress me and turn heads just about every time it's seen in public!
Over Thanksgiving weekend I went to the North Springs range here in Utah to compete in the Long Range Shooters of Utah's 1500 yard Milk Jug Challenge. Rules state you have 10 minutes to hit a milk jug in 10 shots or less.
It was extremely warm the day of the challenge, around 10 degrees in the morning and getting up to a blistering 21 degrees in the heat of the day. Needless to say, we all pretty much sat around and froze our asses off. I actually had a battery powered hand warmer that I kept in the vest pocket of my coat with the ammo, so it was nice and warm when I went to shoot. I had just worked up a load with AR-Comp the week before because of how temp stable it is, but I had yet to take it past 100 yards. I think I'll keep the load how it is!
Most everyone out there that day was shooting a 7mm or bigger, but there were a few 6.5's like the Swede and 260Rem with a couple oddball .308's (the rangemaster, Scott, drilled it on his coldbore shot with his 308!). Once again, like every other time I've gone to these challenges, I was by far the smallest cartridge there. And, once again, the only gas gun.
I set up to shoot, and after making contact on the plate 3 times, didn't think I was successful. Still, everyone that was watching was impressed with 3/10 hits on steel at 1500 with such a small cartridge. I put the rifle away, the next shooter began, and I got on my spotting scope. He was already about 5 shots in, but when I looked through the spotter I saw air in the top of the jug. He had hit the plate twice, so we were unsure which one of us got the jug. After he completed his 10 shots, we drove out to check and change the jug.
When we got there the jug had not one, not two, but three impacts all high up on the jug. I knew my odds were pretty good that at least one of them was mine, but we had to review the gopro footage to know for sure.
Bryce, the owner and founder of LRSU, let me know about a week later that I had in fact hit the jug. The only problem is that we live on opposite ends of the state, so setting up the interview was a little bit of a challenge. We met back at North Springs over New Years weekend at their PRS match, and conducted the interview then.
Enough with the talk, let's see some action!
Over Thanksgiving weekend I went to the North Springs range here in Utah to compete in the Long Range Shooters of Utah's 1500 yard Milk Jug Challenge. Rules state you have 10 minutes to hit a milk jug in 10 shots or less.
It was extremely warm the day of the challenge, around 10 degrees in the morning and getting up to a blistering 21 degrees in the heat of the day. Needless to say, we all pretty much sat around and froze our asses off. I actually had a battery powered hand warmer that I kept in the vest pocket of my coat with the ammo, so it was nice and warm when I went to shoot. I had just worked up a load with AR-Comp the week before because of how temp stable it is, but I had yet to take it past 100 yards. I think I'll keep the load how it is!
Most everyone out there that day was shooting a 7mm or bigger, but there were a few 6.5's like the Swede and 260Rem with a couple oddball .308's (the rangemaster, Scott, drilled it on his coldbore shot with his 308!). Once again, like every other time I've gone to these challenges, I was by far the smallest cartridge there. And, once again, the only gas gun.
I set up to shoot, and after making contact on the plate 3 times, didn't think I was successful. Still, everyone that was watching was impressed with 3/10 hits on steel at 1500 with such a small cartridge. I put the rifle away, the next shooter began, and I got on my spotting scope. He was already about 5 shots in, but when I looked through the spotter I saw air in the top of the jug. He had hit the plate twice, so we were unsure which one of us got the jug. After he completed his 10 shots, we drove out to check and change the jug.
When we got there the jug had not one, not two, but three impacts all high up on the jug. I knew my odds were pretty good that at least one of them was mine, but we had to review the gopro footage to know for sure.
Bryce, the owner and founder of LRSU, let me know about a week later that I had in fact hit the jug. The only problem is that we live on opposite ends of the state, so setting up the interview was a little bit of a challenge. We met back at North Springs over New Years weekend at their PRS match, and conducted the interview then.
Enough with the talk, let's see some action!
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