Starting to take the Grendel to distance

[PredatorDown]

I went out on the desert south of home today to try my hand at long range for the first time. Set the 12" gong out at 700 yards, took three shots to get on target, and hit about every other time after that. I know this isn't incredible by any means, but I'm just excited I was able to hit the dang thing with my Vortex Viper PST 1-4x24. The 1moa dot in the center covered about 3/4 of the gong. My Viper 4-16x50 FFP should be arriving any day, and I can't wait to see what the gun can do with a higher power scope.

[BjornF16]

Tell us more about your stick!...(with pics).

Looks like they were hitting with authority!

[PredatorDown]

They were definitely smacking hard. Had around a second of flight time, and After watching impact I could pull out my earplugs before hearing the ping. I could hear it with them in, but it was just cooler to pull them out and get the full effect

Boomstick is:

Stag Arms lower
Vltor MUR upper
JP Enterprises 22" barrel with their large profile brake
Midwest Industries Gen 2 SS extended rifle handguard
Geissele SSA-E 2 stage trigger
NiB BCG
VLTOR A5 buffer kit
Magpul ACS stock

Load was:
Hornady Brass
Hornady 123gr Amax
29.5 gr of BL-C 2
Federal Premium Small Rifle Match primers


Barrel and brake were cerakoted, the rest of the gun was dipped in Kryptek Highlander. Built it for long range coyotes, so we'll see how she does this winter. I'll have plenty of bench time to learn the gun and work up a load before then.

[txgunner00]

Nice!

[Y85]

Nice looking rifle - did you do the Highlander dip yourself?

[LRRPF52]

Welcome. Nice to see someone else stretching the legs of this round. I was shooting it out to 1500yds on my last outing, which was an invitational only precision rifle competition I was spotting for. We played around at the end at 1500yds. I really need an MOA cant for my set up before I do any more of that.

I do know that my 16" will hit repeatably and predictably at 1200yds, with a high probability of hit on an IPSC at 4400ft ASL, 80 F.

[usmc1371]

That is one good looking rifle. Nice report also.

[PredatorDown]

I didn't do the dip myself, had a local gun shop do it.

LRRPF52, that's incredible to be able to hit at that range. What load are you using? I'm hoping to be able to consistently make hits at 1000yds, but given my chosen scope I'll most likely have to go with an MOA cant mount as well. I've been looking at the AADMOUNTs, but I can't tell if they are out of business, discontinued, or just plain out of stock everywhere.

[lrgrendel]

Nice rifle!
I have an Aadmount. Love it. You could not brake that mount if you hit it with a hammer!! Great warranty as well. Have you tried emailing them?

[waveslayer]

Nice rig, I took my 24" AA out to 1 mile yesterday, like LRRPF52 said, I need another 20 MOA. I was able to hit once, out of 9 shots. I didn't have enough elevation out of my turrets and using my MOAR reticle I still didn't have enough. I ordered a riser to quickly attach on my gun if we go out to a mile again, hopefully that will give me enough elevation to be able to acutally visual see the steel at 1 mile.

But shooting the Grendel at 900-1000 was impressive also, I thought it did better then my brother's .308. he wasn't happy about that.

[lrgrendel]

What bullet and velocity are you shooting to a mile with? And at what elevation?

[waveslayer]

What bullet and velocity are you shooting to a mile with? And at what elevation?

shooting the 123 Amax, Dens was 2386, temp 77-85 I was out in Barstow. Velocity is 2575 out of a 24" AA upper. using XBR powder. I didn't get a chance to shoot the 120 SMK with CFE at that distance, had to go to work.