Planning for the next AR... 6.5 Grendal?...

[sgreen3]

Hey fellas looking for some info from those of you that either shoot or have shot the 6.5 Grendal caliber from your AR platform. I just finished up the latest AR build and currently looking to the next one Like most of us . I've always thought about doing one in the 6.5 but it never really took off due to me needing other AR for a specific purpose so it was always put on the back burner. But now that I have pretty much all bases covered, Id like to do one of these. Any advice on the build itself? parts to look into or parts to avoid? Any advice appreciated, Thanks fellas!

 

[aclark]

Get a real Grendel chamber. There are a lot of out of specs. Precision Firearms, Lilja, and a few others are selling spec chambers. Read up over at 65grendel.com. great round and easy to shoot...good luck and welcome to the club

 

[sloughfoot]

www.6mmAR.com A far more useful version. I have shot it out to 600 yards. An improvement over the Grendal.

The Grendal really thumps at 300 yards, but the 6mm outclasses it at 600.

 

[sgreen3]

Thanks fellas. Ok ill take a look at that Sloughfoot. Have you shot the 6mmAR much?

 

[sloughfoot]

Two highpower seasons. Probably 3000 rounds. I shot 105 AMAX bullets exclusively. It was a tackdriver.

 

[sgreen3]

I did some reading on the round last night. Do you fire form your own brass? One of the benefits I seen with the Grendal was the availability of factory match ammo (I do handload but my time is limited as most of us) So the benefit of factory brass an such is very appealing.

 

[Bigtanker]

IIRC, a 6.5 spec'd lower has a tad bigger magwell to fit the cartridge better. Not sure how hard they are to come buy.

 

[sgreen3]

OK thanks Ill keep that in mind. I was looking at this upper from midway Alexander Arms AR-15 Overwatch A3 Upper Receiver Assembly 6.5 Grendel it has very good review with superb accuracy from what Ive read but seems that its quite the PIA to get the hand guard off if you wanted to change it out for a different one.

 

[aclark]

No such thing as a 6.5 spec lower that I know it's f at the moment. I know there was talk on the 6.5 forums of sourcing a maker to invent on, I think it was based on allowing the use of poly mags...
anyways just use a standard ar lower and you'll be fine. The AA upper would be a great one, and I have heard great this about the PF rifles. I have a Lilja barrel on a PSA upper with a Troy 15" alpha. All dropped on a PSA lower I built.

 

[sgreen3]

No such thing as a 6.5 spec lower that I know it's f at the moment. I know there was talk on the 6.5 forums of sourcing a maker to invent on, I think it was based on allowing the use of poly mags...
anyways just use a standard ar lower and you'll be fine. The AA upper would be a great one, and I have heard great this about the PF rifles. I have a Lilja barrel on a PSA upper with a Troy 15" alpha. All dropped on a PSA lower I built.

Awesome thanks for the info. That make me feel a little better since the upper will run $900 lol that I can use a standard lower.