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Greetings Gentlemen and Gentleladies - IronWapiti - 05-26-2021
Howdy from northwestern Colorado. Been kicking around the idea of getting a 6.5 Gren. for a couple of years. Finally bit the bullet & purchased an upper from Sanders Arms. After ordering the upper I cracked open an adult malted beverage, sat back and thought " You idiot! you have no brass, only about 500 6.5 bullets less than 140 gr. and no dies, I do have a fair assortment of powder. Welp, I called in a few favors, stood on my head,and cajoled some old contacts and came up with dies, a nice supply of brass, and a goodly supply of 123 gr. lapua scenars. Long story short I received the upper on friday. Had dies on hand & a few pieces of starline brass so threw a load together. Had a cheap Nikon 3x9 & rings in the parts box so threw it on the rifle & headed out to see what it'd do. Was very pleasantly surprised. got in 5 3 shot groups with winds gusting 10-25 mph from 8 o'clock they averaged right at 1 moa. largest was 1.33" smallest .80. Largest was my fault I dropped the third shot low at 4 o'clock. Needless to say better optics, a bipod & other sundry accoutrements are on the way. I hope you'll all have patience with questions to the forum in the future as there will be many.
Regards
Greetings Gentlemen and Gentleladies - jasper2408 - 05-27-2021
Be very careful IronWapiti, the Grendels are addictive and have a bad habit of multiplying on you.
Welcome to the forums.
Greetings Gentlemen and Gentleladies - sundowner - 05-27-2021
Welcome to the horde from Wisconsin , I have a 18" Sanders barreled upper and love it .
Greetings Gentlemen and Gentleladies - just_john - 05-27-2021
Welcome to the clan, IW, from the great nation of Texas! Ask away, we all did at one time or another.
Greetings Gentlemen and Gentleladies - VASCAR2 - 05-27-2021
Welcome to the forum Iron Wapiti!
Greetings Gentlemen and Gentleladies - kmon - 05-27-2021
Welcome to the Horde, Lots of good helpful members here
Greetings Gentlemen and Gentleladies - Bjorn - 05-27-2021
jasper2408 Wrote:Grendels . . . have a bad habit of multiplying on you.
Grendels breed?
Welcome to the forum IronElk.
Greetings Gentlemen and Gentleladies - IronWapiti - 05-28-2021
Thanks for the welcome Gents. Am really looking forward to getting to know this little cartridge. Lord knows I love the 6.5x55 & .264 win. Better optics & mount arrived today, got em mounted so looking forward to this weekend.