6mm Grendel Group Design Project

[StoneHendge]

Just look at the muzzle of your 5.56.

Lol - my "new" 20" target 556 (ie, life after 22 Nosler) has a VG6 Epsilon on it - has about as much muzzle movement and recoil as a 22lr.

But for target, 6mm offers more than a "last tiny advantage." I'm pretty confident that my 26" 6mm Grrr barrel arriving today (yay!) will have ballistics nipping at the heels of what I do with 130's in my 6.5 S'more. To put it in perspective, I was having a lot of fun with a buddy yesterday shooting 1k in winds that ranged from the high teens to the high 20s. Drop and 20 mph wind drift were 24' and 8.5' with me S'more while drop and 20 mph wind drift were 29' and 11' in my 22" 6.5 Grendel shooting 123 gr Scenars. The S'more got more first shot hits, while follow up shots were faster with the Grendel due to lower recoil. That didn't equate into more second shot hits with the Grendel since it is more susceptible to wind speed fluctuation. But with 6mm Grrr, you would have the S'more 1st shot hit percentage combined with even lower recoil than 6.5 Grrr. At one point when I was on the Grendel, the wind got into the high 20s and my horizontal hold was 5 mils on a 16" (half mil) target - over 15' of wind drift. Was kind of crazy to dial the scope back to zero at the end of the day and take a look at what the crosshairs were actually pointing at with a 9.1 mil vertical and 5 mil horizontal hold

Bwild, I don't know if anyone even makes a .257 match target bullet. My interest in 6mm Grrrr is solely on the basis of target shooting, with the caveat that I consider p-dogs to be exploding targets.