S&B Grendel Ammo

[hill37]

I ran across a Grendel FMJ load in S&B's European catalog. Any idea if it will make it here?

[BluntForceTrauma]

Great find! Just went to Sellier & Bellot's website and found THIS.

Is their first Grendel load really a 124gr FMJ? Um ... OK. I guess it's a start....

[hill37]

The Ballistics seem pretty if I converted them right.

[BluntForceTrauma]

785 meters per second converts to 2575 feet per second. About par for the course for factory ammo from a 24" barrel.

[Lemonaid]

clicking on the image takes you to a pretty good info page. https://www.sellierbellot.us/product...mj/detail/724/

[BluntForceTrauma]

Is S&B known for good brass?

[hill37]

I did a quick search. It seems to be good brass with tight primer pockets and one instance of a small flash hole. All the comments were a year old. Also some primers were sealed with a red sealer that had to be loosened with solvent. This maybe solved by now.

[VASCAR2]

[BluntForceTrauma]

That's the GOOD kind of blame!

[VASCAR2]

I just sent an email to SG ammo with a link to S&B asking if SG ammo has any info on the S&B 6.5 Grendel ammo. I asked about future availability and price.

[lazyengineer]

I tend to like S&B, and find it very cost effective. Their 6.5 Creedmoor can be shot for about 55 cents a round; and I find their brass heavier and more consistent then Hornady. From the photo, that appears to be a slighter truncated version of their standard 140 gr FMJ bullet. Be advised that their published BC for that 140 gr S&B FMJ bullet is highly optimistic. Most people find in their own tests and shooting, as did I, that the actual BC is considerably less than what the publish. Which is no shock, that's a really wide and blunt tip, which can't be good for BC. That said, for budget FMJ ammo - I find this forgivable.

If they price this in line with how they price 6.5 CM ammo; they will own the 6.5 Grendel market for consumer-grade range ammo. And I hope they do.

This is great news.

[FLshooter]

Is S&B known for good brass?

I have reloaded hundreds of 8 mm Mauser,308 and 357 Sellier and Bellot brass I found at the range. Just as good as any.

[mel]

i bought a ton of s&b 140g 6.5 creed ammo , ill never buy it again, it was well under advertised velocity and the ballistics numbers on the box are not right


box claims .548 g1 and 2660fps out of a 22 inch barrel was seeing mid 2400 fps and the bc number wasnt even close to being right, the brass has been ok though

[VASCAR2]

[A5BLASTER]

This is what I know.

They were to release it at the NRA show but that got cancelled.

And yes the stated bc on that bullet is very overstated