10-29-2012, 05:23 PM
Schwag173 Wrote:I believe everything rj just said and would add another consideration. The big bores can be punishing to do a lot of practicing with. An afternoon of putting a couple hundred rounds of .300 Weatherby or even .30/'06 downrange always makes me sore for a day or two afterward. Nobody gives a second thought to shooting an AR that much; 200 rds is almost nothing. A lighter cartridge, like the Grendel, will allow for much more comfortable practice. That practice, hopefully, will equate to better bullet placement. If a shooter does HIS job, the Grendel will do IT'S job.
Holy crap! Ain't no way I'm going to get behind that volume of shooting through a featherweight rifle in a magnum, '06, or even my .270 Winchester. I can do 40 rounds of .270, then I'm done. After 3 rounds of a featherweight .300 Win Mag, I'm no longer having fun, and I have to really sacrifice my shoulder to focus on a great sight picture.
I did this a few weeks ago at the range, shooting at 200yds with my friend's .300 WM, and my 16" Grendel. I had a hard time registering the shots at 200yds with the .300 WM, but was drilling under and around 2" groups with the Grendel, right where I wanted them. I could literally sit there all day and blast away without any recoil issues. I had the strong conviction that every hunter on that range would have been better served with an AR15 chambered in 6.5 Grendel. Everyone else was having a hard time seeing where they were hitting with their magnums as well at 200yds, and those featherweight barrels were heating up.