Grendel AK has arrived!

[Bill Alexander]

One of my very rare new threads!

Stood here looking at a first in the US, new Russian production 6.5 Grendel AK. Wikipedia can go suck it! Another 3 years of my life in this project but it is done.

New internal layout from latest gen AK with the long gas system, 90 deg port and the lightweight op rod.

Will get pictures taken and posted ASAP.

Nice match up for the steel case ammo.

[NugginFutz]

Excellent news. I can hardly wait to see it. Price point to be announced?

[montana]

Awesome, do they have a 30 round mag developed for the Grendel AK or are they doing something else? Looking forward to the pictures. Will they be for sale, price, etc. ?

[BluntForceTrauma]

NEED PIK-CHERS!!!

Will wonders never cease? Next thing you know someone will try and shoot 6.5 Grendel — GASP! — from a short barrel rifle or actually figure out how to design a machine gun link for the 65G!

[cory]

Excellent news. I can hardly wait to see it. Price point to be announced?

I disagree. Two words, "Russian Production". If the Russian adopt this round as their standard issue, it'll be bad news for our boys in uniform, not just because they'll be severely outgunned by Russians, but Russia will spread this setup to everyone of our enemies.

(Reading the OP leads me to belief that we're talking an AK being produced in Russia. If this is something Bill A. is doing in house, than disregard my last.)

[BluntForceTrauma]

Whether or not Russia, or anyone else for that matter, adopts a high BC intermediate combat cartridge has nothing to do with AA selling 6.5 Grendel-chambered, made-in-Russia AKs in the U.S. If they're gonna develop and adopt an intermediate cartridge, they're gonna do it no matter what is going on in our small corner of the world.

Now, I don't like the idea of our guys being outgunned any more than anyone else here. Have we not been arguing, fighting, pleading with the U.S. small-arms establishment to adopt the 6.5 Grendel or something very much like it for more than a decade?

So the two are as unrelated as importing Toyotas. And there are a hell of a lot of "commie" AKs in the hands of Americans today who are just as red-blooded as you or I and so, apparently, our Georgia redneck boys have managed to put the Cold War behind them to just have some fun blasting away with a piece of history.

Frankly, I think we have a 1000 times more to worry about with Iran going nuclear than Putin — sneaky bastard though he is — trying to start WWIII with 6.5 Grendel AKs.

I can't wait to break open the piggy bank and get one.

[Variable]

Oh snap!

I want one (and not to ever have communist overlords or Terrs aiming them at me)!

Definitely need pictures Bill. Congrats man!!!

[NugginFutz]

I can't wait to break open the piggy bank and get one.

Yeah - I can see my allowance for such things being monopolized by one of these and a large cache of steel cased ammo for a quite a while.

I need to mow some lawns or something...

[billy]

Awesomeness

[LRRPF52]

Here's an example of a Kreb's David Fortier was shooting back in 2010. Not sure what similarities there are, but you can see the AR magazine well.

[cory]

Whether or not Russia, or anyone else for that matter, adopts a high BC intermediate combat cartridge has nothing to do with AA selling 6.5 Grendel-chambered, made-in-Russia AKs in the U.S. If they're gonna develop and adopt an intermediate cartridge, they're gonna do it no matter what is going on in our small corner of the world.

Now, I don't like the idea of our guys being outgunned any more than anyone else here. Have we not been arguing, fighting, pleading with the U.S. small-arms establishment to adopt the 6.5 Grendel or something very much like it for more than a decade?

So the two are as unrelated as importing Toyotas. And there are a hell of a lot of "commie" AKs in the hands of Americans today who are just as red-blooded as you or I and so, apparently, our Georgia redneck boys have managed to put the Cold War behind them to just have some fun blasting away with a piece of history.

Frankly, I think we have a 1000 times more to worry about with Iran going nuclear than Putin — sneaky bastard though he is — trying to start WWIII with 6.5 Grendel AKs.

I can't wait to break open the piggy bank and get one.

Oh my remarks weren't directed towards AA selling them. If they're available then by all means. My remarks were directed towards the fact that Russian arms manufactures were investing in Producing AK Grendels.

[danm]

Sign me up if they become available here, kinda seems like a perfect match for some 100g Wolf Steel Case...

[Kikn]

Just out of curiosity...why use an ar mag? Wouldn't a regular ak banana mag work better? Since its really just a necked down 7.62x39?

[kmon]

Just out of curiosity...why use an ar mag? Wouldn't a regular ak banana mag work better? Since its really just a necked down 7.62x39?

The case taper of the 7.62X39 needs the banana mag while the Grendel has much less case taper so will work much better in an AR mag

[wraith1516]

If that is the case why are all the 6.5 grendel mag manufactures doing such a shite job making them I have 4mags that are unreliable at best