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Hi All,
A quick intro;
I've been a hunter since buying my first rifle in 1976 with my first pay packet after leaving school at 15 years old. All of my hunting is for feral animal management, but I eat all of the deer taken and as much wild pork as I have room for in the freezer.
I currently work full time in the local gun store and as a range officer at the attached pistol club. As such I get to see lots of new "toys" and manage to resist temptation most of the time.
A couple of years ago I realised that there were no gaps in my rifle complement and couldn't think of any cartridge I needed. HOWEVER, when a friend whose business is manufacturing high quality jacketed rifle projectiles started making 6.5mm bullets I found that gap. I needed something in a 264 cal.
We had a Ruger American Ranch come into the shop, chambered in 7.62x39 and I was impressed with it's weight, fit and feel and it's compactness. That was the catalyst for my hunt for one chambered in 6.5 Grendel. The Grendel has never become popular down here in the antipodes and our national suppliers had none in stock. Luckily the only gun store I could find in my home state with one in stock was only 1 1/2 hours drive from home so I bought it sight unseen over the phone. The Grendel is destined to become my new light-weight carry rifle for hunting in the hills on foot.
It joins in the safe:
Weihrauch HW97K - 22 air
Benjamin Marauder - 25cal air
Evanix WIndy City - 357cal air
Sportco model 62 - 22LR
Brno No1 - 22LR
Ruger American - 223
SCSA Taipan - 223 (Australian made pump action)
Lithgow LA102 - 223
Lithgow LA102 - 243
Lithgow LA102 - 308
Sportco Hornet - 22 K Hornet
Sportco 33 - 6mm TCU (re-barreled)
Howa 1500 Varmint - 22-250 Ackley
Howa 1500 Varmint - 6mm Creedmoor
Browning BLR - 243
Rossi Circuit Judge - 44 mag
Remington 7600 - 308
Reminton 700 Long Ranger - 25-06 Ackley
Plus several handguns :-)
How many other Aussie are active here?
A quick intro;
I've been a hunter since buying my first rifle in 1976 with my first pay packet after leaving school at 15 years old. All of my hunting is for feral animal management, but I eat all of the deer taken and as much wild pork as I have room for in the freezer.
I currently work full time in the local gun store and as a range officer at the attached pistol club. As such I get to see lots of new "toys" and manage to resist temptation most of the time.
A couple of years ago I realised that there were no gaps in my rifle complement and couldn't think of any cartridge I needed. HOWEVER, when a friend whose business is manufacturing high quality jacketed rifle projectiles started making 6.5mm bullets I found that gap. I needed something in a 264 cal.
We had a Ruger American Ranch come into the shop, chambered in 7.62x39 and I was impressed with it's weight, fit and feel and it's compactness. That was the catalyst for my hunt for one chambered in 6.5 Grendel. The Grendel has never become popular down here in the antipodes and our national suppliers had none in stock. Luckily the only gun store I could find in my home state with one in stock was only 1 1/2 hours drive from home so I bought it sight unseen over the phone. The Grendel is destined to become my new light-weight carry rifle for hunting in the hills on foot.
It joins in the safe:
Weihrauch HW97K - 22 air
Benjamin Marauder - 25cal air
Evanix WIndy City - 357cal air
Sportco model 62 - 22LR
Brno No1 - 22LR
Ruger American - 223
SCSA Taipan - 223 (Australian made pump action)
Lithgow LA102 - 223
Lithgow LA102 - 243
Lithgow LA102 - 308
Sportco Hornet - 22 K Hornet
Sportco 33 - 6mm TCU (re-barreled)
Howa 1500 Varmint - 22-250 Ackley
Howa 1500 Varmint - 6mm Creedmoor
Browning BLR - 243
Rossi Circuit Judge - 44 mag
Remington 7600 - 308
Reminton 700 Long Ranger - 25-06 Ackley
Plus several handguns :-)
How many other Aussie are active here?
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