Hi, my first post on this new version of the forum.
Firstly I'm in Australia, so my Grendel will be a bolt gun, AR-15s are not legal here. I've been planning a Grendel for the last two years and have had all the pieces sitting ready since January this year. I've been waiting for my gunsmith to get legal at his new address (he changed states and has to reapply for dealer licences). Good gunsmiths are not that common here in Australia.
I've just started a semi-custom build using a Zastava m85 action (aka Mini Mauser or Rem799). So far I've lapped the lugs and that is all. I have a couple of other rifles on these actions (6/223 and 6PPC) and am very familiar with how to slick them.
PacNor No.3 stainless select barrel and a 6.5 BPC reamer trimmed to 21in in length.
Stock by Bell & Carlson, not as light as I'd like, but solid and a good shape.
Custom picatinney rail and a Kahles 2-7 sitting on top.
Lapua brass, Forster Dies with a Redding 6mm PPC bushing neck die holding a 276 bushing.
Should be finished in January, just in time for me to do load development in the hotest time of the year. I'm really looking forward to getting it, more so than the tricked Rem700 switchbarrel (6.5x47 Lapua and 7mm SAUM) he is building for me at the same time.
I plan on using what is sold as H4895 and Varget (AR2206H and AR2208 here) and will be loading for 108gn Scenars (paper), 100gn TTSX for deer/goats/pigs and and 95gn VMAX for small fluffy critters (rabbit/fox).
Firstly I'm in Australia, so my Grendel will be a bolt gun, AR-15s are not legal here. I've been planning a Grendel for the last two years and have had all the pieces sitting ready since January this year. I've been waiting for my gunsmith to get legal at his new address (he changed states and has to reapply for dealer licences). Good gunsmiths are not that common here in Australia.
I've just started a semi-custom build using a Zastava m85 action (aka Mini Mauser or Rem799). So far I've lapped the lugs and that is all. I have a couple of other rifles on these actions (6/223 and 6PPC) and am very familiar with how to slick them.
PacNor No.3 stainless select barrel and a 6.5 BPC reamer trimmed to 21in in length.
Stock by Bell & Carlson, not as light as I'd like, but solid and a good shape.
Custom picatinney rail and a Kahles 2-7 sitting on top.
Lapua brass, Forster Dies with a Redding 6mm PPC bushing neck die holding a 276 bushing.
Should be finished in January, just in time for me to do load development in the hotest time of the year. I'm really looking forward to getting it, more so than the tricked Rem700 switchbarrel (6.5x47 Lapua and 7mm SAUM) he is building for me at the same time.
I plan on using what is sold as H4895 and Varget (AR2206H and AR2208 here) and will be loading for 108gn Scenars (paper), 100gn TTSX for deer/goats/pigs and and 95gn VMAX for small fluffy critters (rabbit/fox).
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