Devils advocate

[Dempsy1]

First of all everything has been fairly well covered, so I will address the SHTF scenario. When I first went into the service they were still issuing Garands. I was 5'6 1/2" tall and weighed 132 #, I regularly carried a 60 or 80 rnd ammo belt plus an 80 rnd bandolier and sometimes 2 bandoliers of 30-06! Much heavier that the Grendel.

Mags are like the ammo, how many are you going to need? One in your weapon and 4 to 6 on you.

The price of ammo, you are probably not going to be doing any reloading so why pick up your brass? Wolf steel is very cheap and throw away cases. No need too worry about wearing out your rifle with the steel cases, just staying alive and one step ahead to the bad guys is going to be good enough.


As has already been said, evaluate your situation, choose the best options, and forget the rest. To my knowledge there has not been a single instance of a do all in every scenario weapon in all of history. How long has the Air Force been searching for the perfect survival gun for Air Crews?

I think what I failed to make clear is that I like and prefer the Grendel, but due to the short comings I listed I cannot get rid of 5.55, I’m not running 3 gun matches with my current grendel ammo-I’d have to switch wolf steel-which I may try but just don’t like. I also just don’t feel as comfortable with the Grendel mags. If those issues were resolved I’d probably get rid of 5.56