LaRue 6.5 Grendel Rifles

[Mrvmax17]

I got in my 6.5 upper kit from Larue (for some reason they are shipping the lower separate), I guess they finally got some buffers and boxes in (see my previous post for that story). So I had planned on assembling the upper tonight and putting it on my RRA lower and working on some loads this weekend. I got it all together and the muzzle brake would not thread on. After looking at it for a minute I realized the brake was too big for the threads and then it hit me, the barrel must be the wrong caliber. So I had to pull off the hand guard to look at the barrel for the caliber. Sure enough, it was a 5.56 barrel. I looked at my order and it does state 6.5 Grendel. Now I have to clean loctite off all the threads and wait for the goofballs at Larue to send me the right barrel. I learned the hard way that I should have checked before assembling. Maybe now I can get them to ship out my lower and add the correct barrel to the package.