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Thanks for the reply. I did not detect a lot of enthusiasm for those powders. Soooo, I will have to buy something else and would very much appreciate your advice on the most likely powder to succeed in my Grendel. It is a Precision 16" Bartlein and I want to shoot it in the Hathcock Match at Cherry Ridge NJ. 20 rounds in 20 minutes prone and single load which allows me to load long if desirable.
Cherry Ridge has swirling wind that is impossible to read - it just blows in circles, so would speed or bullet be the focus. Mark suggested I try Scenar L 120s.
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lwminton Wrote:Thanks for the reply. I did not detect a lot of enthusiasm for those powders. Soooo, I will have to buy something else and would very much appreciate your advice on the most likely powder to succeed in my Grendel. It is a Precision 16" Bartlein and I want to shoot it in the Hathcock Match at Cherry Ridge NJ. 20 rounds in 20 minutes prone and single load which allows me to load long if desirable.
Cherry Ridge has swirling wind that is impossible to read - it just blows in circles, so would speed or bullet be the focus. Mark suggested I try Scenar L 120s.
LW:
This is getting way off topic.
Go to the Reloading forum and search for 'ideal', 'best', 'favorite'; 'loads', powders'.
Many great responses there.
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LRRPF52 Wrote:If someone is having problems driving a 5.56 M16A4 or M4, they need to go into a non combat arms MOS and leave the gun-slinging to the adults. They are very pleasant rifles/carbines to shoot compared to almost every other rifle out there.
They can approach the recoil compensation from the buffer and spring end, without any tools needed and no messing with loudness.
Hilarious Cory! My wife knew she was complaining too much last night, so she told me to just roll onto my good ear so I wouldn't have to hear it.
The problem with the 5.56x45 is that lacks enough power compared with the 7.62x39. And the 7.65x51 is just too big. We need the 6.5 Grendel.
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No matter how bad we want the Grendel to be standard issue in the military, it isn't going to happen. Unless you are going to get all of NATO to jump on board it is a fantasy. The Corps doesn't really need more toys or newer toys on their service rifles. Give us more ammo to train with. We don't actually shoot very much throughout the year. Give them more ammo and range time and they will be more effective. New toys requires more training and range time, neither of which is received, ever!
