11-14-2015, 02:17 PM
Seems like I remember reading a thread similar to this topic on the old forum before it got trashed by hackers. I knew Stan was unable to do another evaluation but I think this test would make intersting reading. I've always been intrigued by these types of firearms questions. I guess that's why I've shot a lot of jugs of water over the years plus a couple of junk cars.
I think a test like the one mentioned above would just validate how close the performance is for the 6.5 Grendel and 6.8 SPC. I read somewhere that European Countries (Maybe Hague Convention interpretation) expects a FMJ bullet to stay intact upon stiking a target and not fragment or expand. The PPU 6.5 Grendel 110 grain FMJ certainly fits into that requirement after I recovered a bullet shot through water.
With the current political climate and the EPA I don't see the US military adopting another lead core FMJ bullet in the future. I think the concern for lead is grossly overstated, look at all the battle fields in the world where millions if not billions of lead bullets were expended. I can't see any evidence to show the lead ammunition has made these old battle fields uninhabitable today, heck, there still fighting over the same areas like Crimea.
I think a test like the one mentioned above would just validate how close the performance is for the 6.5 Grendel and 6.8 SPC. I read somewhere that European Countries (Maybe Hague Convention interpretation) expects a FMJ bullet to stay intact upon stiking a target and not fragment or expand. The PPU 6.5 Grendel 110 grain FMJ certainly fits into that requirement after I recovered a bullet shot through water.
With the current political climate and the EPA I don't see the US military adopting another lead core FMJ bullet in the future. I think the concern for lead is grossly overstated, look at all the battle fields in the world where millions if not billions of lead bullets were expended. I can't see any evidence to show the lead ammunition has made these old battle fields uninhabitable today, heck, there still fighting over the same areas like Crimea.