10-11-2011, 03:07 PM
264lbc seems to me to be little more than a corporate slap in the face aimed at bill. I can't see something like that (and history bears this out) as being liable to gain much traction in its own right. It's only purpose was a way to get around the trademarking of Grendel. Fact of the matter is that grendel has plenty of ammo available (despite not being available at my local gunshop) and I hadn't even heard of 264LBC until I got into 6.5grendel anyway.
It's a little like the 6.5mm Remington Magnum. The 264 win-mag came out first and while both exist, only the win-mag is thought about much today. The 6.5rem-mag was not something you could put into a 264 winmag chamber but the same rules apply. If the first one gets traction the johnny-come-lately's will be relegated to obscurity. The only fortunate bit for owners of LBC chambers is that they can shoot grendels out of them.
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It's a little like the 6.5mm Remington Magnum. The 264 win-mag came out first and while both exist, only the win-mag is thought about much today. The 6.5rem-mag was not something you could put into a 264 winmag chamber but the same rules apply. If the first one gets traction the johnny-come-lately's will be relegated to obscurity. The only fortunate bit for owners of LBC chambers is that they can shoot grendels out of them.
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