First Grendel experience today

[buckpasser]

A little background. New member here, but I?ve enjoyed the information that I?ve found here and it pushed me towards the Grendel for my latest deer gun.

I had a diamondback that wasn?t doing anything so I converted it into a shoestring budget 6.5. By shoestring I mean BCA bcg and BCA 16? barrel. I have a whopping $120 plus shipping in Bear Creek parts on a $400 AR. I also put Nikon scope mounts and an old Leupold vx3 2.5-8 scope I had laying around. A 10 round C products mag finished it up.

I fired it for the first time today and this was my takeaway:

-Way more ?bang? than .223 or .300 blk
-Perfect cycling with a half loaded 10 round mag
-Growing excitement for deer season to get here to tag a buck with it!

I?m not sure what my accuracy will be with a crunchy factory trigger and the cheapest barrel on earth, but I plan to find out soon. I?m not a range guy so this gun won?t see thousands of rounds under my ownership, but if the barrel is ?huntable? accurate I might upgrade the trigger. Thoughts?

[buckpasser]

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[DDRanch]

Here is a inexpensive route for trigger upgrade;https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1003365284

A lot of my ARs have match triggers, but several have JP Enterprises triggers and they work great.

[Bigs28]

For the price, i don't see any reason not to have at least a larue trigger.

[A5BLASTER]

Joeboboutfitters has a reduced spring kit and trigger tension screw setup you can buy for dirt cheap that will make your standard trigger feel much better.

That's if you don't want to pony up the cash for a better trigger.

My personal choice is the ssa-e but I hear enough good stuff about the Larue mbt that I would say get that of your budget can't cover the ssa-e.

I'm not going to comment on the BCA barrel other then to say good luck.

[Growler]

Not sure why all punctuation is replaced by ???

My browser (Firefox) on my iPad does this with apostrophe or quotes.

OP, best of luck filling your tag. I?ll bet you will. Come back with stories!
...and welcome!

[buckpasser]

Here is a inexpensive route for trigger upgrade;https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1003365284

A lot of my ARs have match triggers, but several have JP Enterprises triggers and they work great.

Thank you, that would definitely not knock me out of my position of cheapest gun owner on the forum!

[buckpasser]

Joeboboutfitters has a reduced spring kit and trigger tension screw setup you can buy for dirt cheap that will make your standard trigger feel much better.

That's if you don't want to pony up the cash for a better trigger.

My personal choice is the ssa-e but I hear enough good stuff about the Larue mbt that I would say get that of your budget can't cover the ssa-e.

I'm not going to comment on the BCA barrel other then to say good luck.

I hear you on the barrel. I didn?t apply any loctite between the receiver and barrel during install as I read many do to improve accuracy a bit. My hope was to explore the effects of this round on deer at very reasonable ranges this year. I have thoroughly enjoyed taking deer with my blackout build, and am hopeful an AR in Grendel may be my retirement setup. If the caliber does what I hope it will, I?ll likely upgrade into a more permanent weapon at some point. I guess I have some hope that this rig will be more accurate than the cost would suggest. We shall see.

[buckpasser]

My browser (Firefox) on my iPad does this with apostrophe or quotes.

OP, best of luck filling your tag. I?ll bet you will. Come back with stories!
...and welcome!

Thank you. I?ll update this thread with accuracy results and I certainly hope to provide some success stories.

[Frontier Gear]

My BCA Grendel barrel was very accurate and took a number of game. I probably should have kept it since they seem to be few and far between. Also $80 for a sub-MOA barrel is a steal if you get lucky enough to get a good one. But I wanted a bolt gun after bouncing brass off the sides of the blind and back into my lap. So it got replaced with a Howa. I hope that your barrel is from the same batch as mine.

[drewthebrave]

Welcome to the club. I got started with a similarly cheap Anderson Grendel barrel because I wanted to dip my toes in the water. Turns out, the water is fine!

I really enjoyed the authoritative "gong" of smacking steel at 300+ yards versus the wimpy "ping" of 5.56. Now I've got another 6.5G upper with a ~ $200 Alexander Arms 18" barrel that's even better, and I'm hoping to take it out on my first real hunt (other than dove) soon.

[buckpasser]

I used the .300 blk primarily for lung and heart shots. Im hopeful that the Grendel will be better for the same shot and a CNS high shoulder capable weapon as well. Am I correct in this thinking? Most shots 60 to 120 yards with 200 being a maximum.

[A5BLASTER]

I used the .300 blk primarily for lung and heart shots. Im hopeful that the Grendel will be better for the same shot and a CNS high shoulder capable weapon as well. Am I correct in this thinking? Most shots 60 to 120 yards with 200 being a maximum.

The grendel will work fine on cns shots at your ranges.

[Rabid Wombat]

I have been very happy with my LaRue MBT-2S straight bow trigger on my Grendel, I can also recommend the CMC triggers but I would take the Larue over the CMC.
If you want to reduce the recoil look at the Surefire procomp 762, they run about $50 but they do a great job at reducing recoil and keeping the muzzle down.

[Kswhitetails]

Passer, here. https://www.larue.com/category/parts...ries/triggers/

You're welcome. You won't beat it, or even get close at the same money. Period. Three options now, curved two stage, flat two stage, and either in single. Good luck.

Do it, you won't be dissapointed. If you are, let me know, I'll buy it from you and pay shipping.