Satern Barrel Headspace

**bwaites** · 07-20-2011, 06:32 PM

Coondawg,

Welcome to the boards!

I would contact Satern and ask them. Is this one of their actual Grendel barrels, or made after their split from AA, where they might be using another reamer?

I would be hesitant to use anything which didn't headspace correctly. I wasn't aware, though, that PTG made Grendel authorized headspace gauges.

**warped** · 07-20-2011, 06:43 PM

PTG does not have anything that is Grendel authorized, if they did they would have a violation of license agreement.

**Coondawg27** · 07-20-2011, 08:05 PM

I haven't had any luck talking with Satern so far, patiently waiting on a call from Steve. This is one of their actual Grendel barrels and I believe would have been manufactured before the Hornady factory ammo issue. I have talked with AA and they said the PTG gauge is not to their spec...I just need to find out what that spec is.

In the end I believe that everything will be fine and Satern manufactured it correctly. I just need to be able to confirm that the headspace is correct before putting this rifle into service.

**bwaites** · 07-20-2011, 08:54 PM

Originally posted by Coondawg27 View Post

I haven't had any luck talking with Satern so far, patiently waiting on a call from Steve. This is one of their actual Grendel barrels and I believe would have been manufactured before the Hornady factory ammo issue. I have talked with AA and they said the PTG gauge is not to their spec...I just need to find out what that spec is.

In the end I believe that everything will be fine and Satern manufactured it correctly. I just need to be able to confirm that the headspace is correct before putting this rifle into service.

Understood. Have you considered a Grendel Go/No Go gauge, I mean one of the approved ones?

**leopard6.5** · 07-20-2011, 09:20 PM

Coondawg: There were some people here that had problems with the bolt that came with some of the Satern Barrels and had to send the bolt back.

You might try to do a search or definitely get in touch with Satern and see if yours falls into the group they had problems with.
Once again my understanding is that it wasn't a problem with the barrels but some bolts that were bad.

Good Luck.

Lee

**Coondawg27** · 07-21-2011, 08:29 PM

Thanks for the replies. I will be sure to check into the bolt issue if I can manage to get Satern on the phone.

Last I talked to AA they did not have go/no go gauges available. Any advice as to where I may find them?

**hugh** · 07-22-2011, 12:09 PM

if the chamber is to tight for the gage but not to tight for a unfired round,I don;t see the problem...
maybe fire form a case and use your comparitor to see the dif...

**QuadCam** · 08-18-2011, 04:22 AM

Originally posted by warped View Post

PTG does not have anything that is Grendel authorized, if they did they would have a violation of license agreement.

Who does make go and no-go gauges got the grendel? The ptg gauges on midway are advertised as 6.5 grendel gauges.

**acelungger** · 05-26-2012, 11:18 PM

I also would like to have a set of them, I know that I am not smart enough to figure the deminsions, but if I had them I am sure I could make them out of brass on my lathe??

Greg