stanc Wrote:Gene,
"Cult of the Grendel" members don't need test results. They have their faith in the (so far unproven) superiority of 6.5 Grendel performance.
Indeed, I have come to think that perhaps the real reason -- as opposed to all the excuses I've been given -- for the continued opposition to my calls for such testing during the last several years is that they fear hard data will disprove their claims.
Stan
WOW....Starting to sound an awful lot like a conspiracy against you Stan! Got your aluminum foil hat on? LOL
It's simple. AA is a little company, with limited resources. Why do a bunch of expensive testing that won't help them sell rifles to the general public?
Sure, we talk about whether it would be a good military cartridge, we think it would be superior, but no one even has had any projectiles that would be used by the military until just recently.
AA can just a barely keep up with the orders they have, so an argument that, "If they would do the testing, they could sell a bunch of rifles to the military or LEO's!" isn't real helpful. They are growing, and doing so in an appropriate manner, but Bill Alexander is smart enough not to gamble his whole ball of wax on a military contract.
We'll get some testing done, and I intend to get some done in the next 12-24 months, but its a ways down on the priority list.
My life is probably not at high risk over whether it will penetrate glass or not, so it will have to wait a bit!
And come on, we know what 5.56 does on glass, in its various iterations. We know what 7.62 does on glass in its various iterations, there isn't much difficulty with extrapolating the physics and believing that that 6.5 bullet with better sectional density and similar construction will do as well or better than either of them.
Got 10 grand or so? I can have the testing done in two weeks. I know just the local guys to do it. Very proficient, national level competitors, experienced in testing procedures.
If not, we'll have to wait until life lets us arrange our schedules.
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. - John Galt