Need 6.5 throat reamer to rent or buy

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I'd like to get your guys opinion of throating my grendel to 2.38" oal of a 123gr amax to long or should this be as good as I'm thinking for my rig. As far as functioning in my mag no worries there if I can't get the mag modified that much it won't bother me any I can always load them shorter if needed.

2.38" for the 123gr AMAX is way short. I can load that to 2.275" if I want to, but there is no reason for it. 2.260" working COL should be what your chamber allows if it's SAAMI.

The 123gr AMAX is more on the pointy side of ogives, so if it is constrained to that short of a COL, you're screwed with any of the tangent ogive bullets.

Tell your smith to order from Manson in the future when other customers ask for 6.5 Grendel, and you will get a correct reamer. For me personally, no matter what caliber I'm discussing with a smith, the moment he mentioned PTG, it's a deal-breaker for me. I have yet to see a consistent .308 or .223 chamber from them, even if you pay for the "match versions" with specific throat lengths. You will often get the exact opposite of what you ordered, and this complaint is very common among competitive shooters and their smiths.

PTG is fast and cheap. You know how the saying goes about picking one of 3.

I was discussing a .338 Federal build with a smith a few years ago. He insisted on using a PTG reamer since they were so easy to get. I walked away and never talked about it again with him, and that shop plus the parts suppliers lost probably $2000 on a job that would have happened with a Manson reamer.