Hi guys,
I recently moved to TX, turns out I'm just over an hour away from Double Naught Spy who I met on the Lone Star Boars forum, and LRRPF52 who I met on AR15 forum. Looks like the people I meet with 6.5 grendel in common all end up here.
I spent approximately 10 years living overseas in Australia where of course you'd be lucky if six people in the whole country had a special license to own a semi automatic rifle so I've always had Finnish bolt rifles, two barreled shotguns and that's about all I could get on their A & B license. I lived on a rural property mostly shooting foxes and the occasional kangaroo under license.
Now that I am here of course I bought right away the highly illegal and outlawed Ruger 10/22, but I've mostly been buying and shooting pistols, something that takes a lot of effort to get a license for in Oz and you are not allowed to bring them home, they remain locked up at the gun club.
So long story short. I am used to fabulous accuracy with bolt rifles at decent prices that I've been able to shoot down to a 1/3 MOA with handloads with my favorite caliber to date 243 Win {6mm}
I don't have the AR platform experience to know what is normal expected accuracy performance at each price point tier so the obvious first line of reasoning I would use is to fall back on my bolt rifle experiences and see if I could put together AR at the similar price point and get similar performance.
I chose the 6.5 Grendel first and to be honest was only looking at bolt rifles.st first. I have some anecdotal reports from CZ 527 American 6.5 Grendel owners that they got 0.7/0.8 MOA with their handloads.
Howa also makes a 6.5 Grendel but I had no personal ownership experience with the brand yet. I wish Tikka would put out a 6.5 Grendel but they only have 6.5 Creedmoor which is more recoil than I'm looking for and is not best suited to my intended use which is primarily hunting, deer / pigs / coyote etc.
Double Naught Spy has shown me through his videos some benefits to a semi auto in pig and coyote applications. LRRPF52 has given me some his personal barrel experience.
What I'm looking for is more wider experience from builders mostly building hunting rigs versus long distance paper punch rigs to see what the go is on purpose built Ara for that application.and any nuances involved in parts selection. I see plastic and wood stocks for instance nicer to hold in cold weather than metal hand guards but maybe it's not an issue for you guys who have then in practice.
Thats about it.
Cheers,
PeterD
I recently moved to TX, turns out I'm just over an hour away from Double Naught Spy who I met on the Lone Star Boars forum, and LRRPF52 who I met on AR15 forum. Looks like the people I meet with 6.5 grendel in common all end up here.
I spent approximately 10 years living overseas in Australia where of course you'd be lucky if six people in the whole country had a special license to own a semi automatic rifle so I've always had Finnish bolt rifles, two barreled shotguns and that's about all I could get on their A & B license. I lived on a rural property mostly shooting foxes and the occasional kangaroo under license.
Now that I am here of course I bought right away the highly illegal and outlawed Ruger 10/22, but I've mostly been buying and shooting pistols, something that takes a lot of effort to get a license for in Oz and you are not allowed to bring them home, they remain locked up at the gun club.
So long story short. I am used to fabulous accuracy with bolt rifles at decent prices that I've been able to shoot down to a 1/3 MOA with handloads with my favorite caliber to date 243 Win {6mm}
I don't have the AR platform experience to know what is normal expected accuracy performance at each price point tier so the obvious first line of reasoning I would use is to fall back on my bolt rifle experiences and see if I could put together AR at the similar price point and get similar performance.
I chose the 6.5 Grendel first and to be honest was only looking at bolt rifles.st first. I have some anecdotal reports from CZ 527 American 6.5 Grendel owners that they got 0.7/0.8 MOA with their handloads.
Howa also makes a 6.5 Grendel but I had no personal ownership experience with the brand yet. I wish Tikka would put out a 6.5 Grendel but they only have 6.5 Creedmoor which is more recoil than I'm looking for and is not best suited to my intended use which is primarily hunting, deer / pigs / coyote etc.
Double Naught Spy has shown me through his videos some benefits to a semi auto in pig and coyote applications. LRRPF52 has given me some his personal barrel experience.
What I'm looking for is more wider experience from builders mostly building hunting rigs versus long distance paper punch rigs to see what the go is on purpose built Ara for that application.and any nuances involved in parts selection. I see plastic and wood stocks for instance nicer to hold in cold weather than metal hand guards but maybe it's not an issue for you guys who have then in practice.
Thats about it.
Cheers,
PeterD
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