Designing a Grendel IAR

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ohh, my bad, i guess it was me that was confused. lol

i have been reading up on the general dynamics .338 norma mag beltfed MMG lately, and been thinking alot about how it needs a 6.5 gren SAW lil brother.

it will be interesting if anyone with a sear actually makes a dedicated one, and what direction they end up going with it.

I'd love to have a Grendel conversion for my Shrike, but since it took almost a decade to get it in 5.56.....


There is a guy in this thread over on Arfcom who is getting ready to run Grendel in his SAW.

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_6_24/362809...tml&page=9

To run 6.5 Grendel in a beltfed there are currently two hurtles, both of which are link related.

1.) You need to use Russki non-disintegrating links ala RPD style, and use an appropriate belt feed mechanism to handle them.

or

2.) Someone would have to actually manufacture disintegrating links for the 6.5 Grendel cartridge.

The number 2 option has never been actually explored to my knowledge. The standard M27 link won't play well with the Grendel cartridge in it's current geometry. Remember I said above that Stan sometimes takes positions we get irritated with? I just poked that monkey with this post.LOL :p

Stan is somewhat pessimistic about the chance of a functional disintegrating link being possible, while the rest of us are more optimistic. Regardless, Stan takes the Missouri ("show me") position, and without someone being actually motivated to incurr the considerable expense of designing, manufacturing, and debugging a link stamping assembly line--- we are at an impasse.

Stan doesn't see it in his mind's eye, but I think I do. If I had photoshop on my iPad I'd try to jerry-rig a photo of what I'm seeing, but I don't and I'm way too lazy to schedule an entire evening with an actual computer to figure it out (my computer-fu sucks).LOL