6mm Grendel Group Design Project

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The 6.5mm (.264") is midway between the beloved 30 cals for us old timers and the newbies 5.56mm. It is just the ideal compromise. Target shooters are looking for the last tiny advantage so the 6mm has value to them.

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14 years ago, I would have been fine if they had first presented us with a .25 or .27 Grendel, but, heck, then again why not .26? .26 cal exactly splits the difference between .22 and .30. The intermediate of intermediate cartridges! Supreme efficiency balancing bullet mass, ballistics, and recoil.

I consider the 6.5 Grendel the best assault rifle cartridge possible within the confines of the AR platform, given high-capacity, double-stack magazines with a max 2.300 COL. This is why I love it.

It is also the best multi-role hunting cartridge in that platform.

It is also very good for informal target shooting, but technically and competitively speaking, is edged out in both drop and drift by a 6mm in the same case. (Or, as I've proposed above, a case stretched from 38.6mm to 40.4mm.)

So the 6.5 Grendel is a fantastic AR hunting round that can also be used for target shooting.

My proposed 6mmAR Turbo Stretched is a fantastic AR target round that can also be used for hunting.

Now, if we could get some of the newer hybrid, optimized ogives on long-range friendly 6.5mm 115-123 grain HPBTs, I think we could give 6mms a run for their money. Every time the major bullet makers come out with a "new" 6.5mm bullet with the same old fat, lazy tangent ogive (hello, Hornady 123gr ELD-M), I'm like, "Nooooo!!! Just put the Berger 140 Hybrid nose or Sierra 150 SMK nose on a 6.5mm 115gr and let us have a bit more velocity from the smaller Grendel case with a super sleek ogive. Why can't they just do it right the first time? It's so simple."