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'Sup 65’ers?!? I'm a long-time contract (7mm) Mauser & USGI rifle fan...been on a "re-do" of late to reduce the # of calibers (reloading isn't so cheap with a ton of 'em) and I want to spend more time shooting. My two favorite rifle calibers are 6.5x55 & 7x57. In fact, the former eventually led me to the Grendel. Some years back I was at the range plinking away with the M-38 and a guy next to me was shooting an AR and having problems. Turns out it was a piston gun in 6.5 Grendel. I'd never heard of the piston thing at that point but the "6.5" caught my attention. I thought it was a mighty fine lookin' wee cartridge so I did some research but nothing really formative.
My brother finally won me over on AR's so I figured close to short-barrel 6.5x55 performance in an AR is pretty appealing. I've got a 16" BA Hanson barrel I'm building around and will hopefully get it done sometime SOON! I originally wanted an 18" tube but from what I can see, you don't lose a whole lot after stepping down from 20" anyway. My last AR build was a pencil barrel and the thought of swinging another HBAR around...only if I gotta!
I've got a place I can shoot out to just under 500-yards but that's it. Anything further will be rare.
I've got three other back-burner projects…ongoing 1911’s (love 'em!), a 7x57 bolt gun on one of the Serbian Remington 798 Mauser actions (the 162-gr AMAX/ ELD-M in these proves-out the same thing as the Grendel - efficient bullets don't need to be "moving out" to bring the mail!), and finally the hot rod (biggest money/ time pit but fun!).
Can't wait to start blasting away!
My brother finally won me over on AR's so I figured close to short-barrel 6.5x55 performance in an AR is pretty appealing. I've got a 16" BA Hanson barrel I'm building around and will hopefully get it done sometime SOON! I originally wanted an 18" tube but from what I can see, you don't lose a whole lot after stepping down from 20" anyway. My last AR build was a pencil barrel and the thought of swinging another HBAR around...only if I gotta!
I've got a place I can shoot out to just under 500-yards but that's it. Anything further will be rare.I've got three other back-burner projects…ongoing 1911’s (love 'em!), a 7x57 bolt gun on one of the Serbian Remington 798 Mauser actions (the 162-gr AMAX/ ELD-M in these proves-out the same thing as the Grendel - efficient bullets don't need to be "moving out" to bring the mail!), and finally the hot rod (biggest money/ time pit but fun!).
Can't wait to start blasting away!
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