11-18-2012, 09:27 PM
A short review of the rest:
For starters I shot 1,000% better with it than I could without it. There are a couple of things I need to address for getting the most out of it. 1st I need a good bench or table top to support it, for today's run I used a B&D Workmate that did OK but I left the rubber tips on the rest and they cause a little wobble. 2nd the bag on the front of the rest is loose, it's held by 2 Velcro strips to the support but it can slide around. I'm going to add a strip to the bottom of the bag and the top of the support to stabilize it better. The butt plate support end is pretty wide and it fit the Tapco rubber pad on the 5.56 carbine stock perfectly on the Grendel's A2 stock I put some folded paper on each side to lock it in better. The up and down wheel was smooth and would make very fine adjustments. Should note that you can't use the longer mags like 30 rounders, 20s work fine. I'll flesh this out more after I address the table and the bag changes.
Couple of side notes on ammo:
One the Grendel / .264 LBC shoots great and this was with the 120 Wolf MPT ammo I was able to keep a 5 shot group on a 1 inch dot at 60 yards pretty much every time. I'm saving the Hornady for finial testing once I've got a little better set up.
On the other hand the 5.56 Wolf ammo (55 gr. steel case) and my carbine did not love each other and I was thinking I might need to move it along to a new owner till I took out some of my very limited supply of M855 and some 223 Hornady ammo. Both of those shot fine 1" groups out of the carbine, my old Bushmaster rifle with the 20" barrel always did fine with the Wolf but this DPMS 16" carbine has no real love for it.
For starters I shot 1,000% better with it than I could without it. There are a couple of things I need to address for getting the most out of it. 1st I need a good bench or table top to support it, for today's run I used a B&D Workmate that did OK but I left the rubber tips on the rest and they cause a little wobble. 2nd the bag on the front of the rest is loose, it's held by 2 Velcro strips to the support but it can slide around. I'm going to add a strip to the bottom of the bag and the top of the support to stabilize it better. The butt plate support end is pretty wide and it fit the Tapco rubber pad on the 5.56 carbine stock perfectly on the Grendel's A2 stock I put some folded paper on each side to lock it in better. The up and down wheel was smooth and would make very fine adjustments. Should note that you can't use the longer mags like 30 rounders, 20s work fine. I'll flesh this out more after I address the table and the bag changes.
Couple of side notes on ammo:
One the Grendel / .264 LBC shoots great and this was with the 120 Wolf MPT ammo I was able to keep a 5 shot group on a 1 inch dot at 60 yards pretty much every time. I'm saving the Hornady for finial testing once I've got a little better set up.
On the other hand the 5.56 Wolf ammo (55 gr. steel case) and my carbine did not love each other and I was thinking I might need to move it along to a new owner till I took out some of my very limited supply of M855 and some 223 Hornady ammo. Both of those shot fine 1" groups out of the carbine, my old Bushmaster rifle with the 20" barrel always did fine with the Wolf but this DPMS 16" carbine has no real love for it.