Verifying Grendel trajectory

[Roe]

I have now settled on my hunting load:
Shooting the 123gr Amax at 774 meters per second.
I have now verified my trajectory and will build custom turrets.
From observing the impact on steel and having a so-so feel for what this will do to deer, it looks like 90% of my shots are covered by this cartridge.

I think the quiet report, lack of recoil and enhanced observation during recoil will give a few more deer if they drop as expected.

https://youtu.be/gug0jNJ62Bw

[am4966]

Great shooting! I'd love a Grendel in a Sako action.

[1911man]

Very Nice.

[VASCAR2]

Excellent video!

[wraith1516]

Great video great looking rifle

[jawbone]

great video!

[JPShooter]

Enjoyed your video as well as other's on your page. Thanks for sharing!

[LRRPF52]

Another superb video. No blabbing, just pure meat and potatoes, beautiful scenery, excellent shooting, with a practical demonstration of compensating for trajectory using modern technology.

[Variable]

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Exactly what he said.

[Roe]

Thanks for that guys.
Really starting to like this cartridge. We've had a few warm days which makes for a lot of mirage here, and with the low recoil I can really follow the bullet trace in.
Was out testing my mockup turrets now and putting them into production. They were dead on, but for next season I'll need a 30-35 MOA rail on my rifle - my double turn PMII only gives me 520 meters on the clicks with the mount as-is.

[Kikn]

Nice video Roe; and shooting as well.

[LRRPF52]

Thanks for that guys.
Really starting to like this cartridge. We've had a few warm days which makes for a lot of mirage here, and with the low recoil I can really follow the bullet trace in.
Was out testing my mockup turrets now and putting them into production. They were dead on, but for next season I'll need a 30-35 MOA rail on my rifle - my double turn PMII only gives me 520 meters on the clicks with the mount as-is.

That's the biggest difference I notice with this compared to .260 Remington, 6.5 CM, and 6.5x47 Lapua, is that I can spot my own hits, and there is no real felt recoil to speak of in terms of discomfort.

It makes the shooting experience so pleasant, as opposed to a little bit of anticipation and slight pain or sharp jolt associated with the larger cartridges.

For those that don't know, Roe has a lot of experience shooting 6.5mm's, to include the 6.5x284 Norma.

[JPShooter]

That's the biggest difference I notice with this compared to .260 Remington, 6.5 CM, and 6.5x47 Lapua, is that I can spot my own hits, and there is no real felt recoil to speak of in terms of discomfort.

It makes the shooting experience so pleasant, as opposed to a little bit of anticipation and slight pain or sharp jolt associated with the larger cartridges.

For those that don't know, Roe has a lot of experience shooting 6.5mm's, to include the 6.5x284 Norma.

A few days ago I was going to ask Roe why he was bothering with a Grendel in a bolt action?

I have been entertaining the idea of a lightweight bolt hunting rifle and have decided on the 6.5 now that "I've seen the light" via the Grendel in an AR. I have a 300WM (Gap non-typical) which is a very fine rifle. It is however not a lightweight.

I have also been considering just how much gun I really need, vs. how much gun "common wisdom" tells us we need. I currently see very little real need for my 300WM outside of very long shots on large game. In my estimation that would be something like Elk at 400+ yards.

So, my question to Roe was going to be why a Grendel in a bolt and not at least a 6.5 Lapua? I can see the logic after reading LRRPF52's response copied above here. I guess it's like every other consideration in such matters, it's just going to depend on the individual's desires. I currently am still thinking that it will be a bigger 6.5 cartridge for me than the Grendel as I have the AR for that. It may be that the AR is not legal where Roe is, I don't know. And there is no doubt that a bolt gun can weigh less than a comparable (barrel length) AR.

Horses for courses as they say!

[Roe]

It is as you say, no-go for AR here.
The Grendel in an ordinary bolt-action makes no sense to me - if I carry the weight, I want the payload in the killing end!

This build was a nostalgic trip for me. As a kid (well, immature young man) I had a Sako Vixen 222 which was rechambered to 6mm-223. It was my first meeting with everything custom/ reloading etc. However, it was a little failing in the "deer drop dead right there" department. The current build was a combination of midlife-crisis and lacking impulse control, I now built my "old" gun as I couldn't afford then and hoping to recreate some of that old magic.

It appears I have kept most of my benefits from the 6mm-223 (most notably enhanced observation during recoil) but this cartridge should strike the deer a lot harder... and the logistics is a lot easier when I only have to stock 6,5mm Amax bullets ( I also shoot 6,5x55 and 6,5x284 and have used the 6,5x47).

[JPShooter]

Thanks for the reply Roe. I fully understand wanting to "recreate some of that old magic", been there as well.

I would like to ask you; of the 6.5 cartridges that you have, which would be your one and only?

Just looking for insight as to which way I should go with my one and only bolt action lightweight 6.5 hunting rig.

Thanks!