06-05-2011, 01:21 AM
Bought a 6.5 Grendel upper from J&T. It's the heavy 24" stainless 1/9 barrel, free float tube, DoubleStar gas block. Put it on a Rock River lower with 2 stage RR trigger, A2 buttstock, with a RR Hi-Rise scope mount and a 6.5-20 Leupold Vari-X III recently sent to Leupold to have M1 turrets put on. It has a Harris bipod with leg notches and the tilt feature. Shot it the 1st time Thursday shooting only 17 rounds. I started shooting to zero the scope plus cleaning for the 1st few rounds. I only shot one group to get an idea of accuracy to expect. Was shooting Hornady 123 A-Max factory. I only shot a 4 round group and had 3 bullet holes barely touching mostly in a horizontal group with one shot about 1/2" higher center of the other 3. Slight breeze from behind and left, shooting off the bipod and bench. I only shot it at 100 yards. Velocity of the Hornady 123 A-Max in my 24" barrel averaged 2610fps at 10 ft. thru a Oehler 35P. Temperature during shooting was 90 degrees. Plus I'm just an ordinary shooter with little talent.
I understand that the heavy barrel J&T are Wilson barrels. Quality and appearance looks very good and for the price I'm more than satisfied. I wasn't wanting to spend a lot but wanted a good quality upper and J&T/DoubleStar has a good reputation and stand by their products. The barrel looks very slick and cleaned easily. Didn't have time to do any load development. Have Lapua brass, Hornady 123 A-Max and Sierra 123 BTHP's to test using AA2520 and BL-C2 all using RP 7 1/2 primers loading with a standard full-length Redding die set. Hope to do some load work-ups in the near future and hope my hand loads do as well and hopefully better than factory Hornady.
I understand that the heavy barrel J&T are Wilson barrels. Quality and appearance looks very good and for the price I'm more than satisfied. I wasn't wanting to spend a lot but wanted a good quality upper and J&T/DoubleStar has a good reputation and stand by their products. The barrel looks very slick and cleaned easily. Didn't have time to do any load development. Have Lapua brass, Hornady 123 A-Max and Sierra 123 BTHP's to test using AA2520 and BL-C2 all using RP 7 1/2 primers loading with a standard full-length Redding die set. Hope to do some load work-ups in the near future and hope my hand loads do as well and hopefully better than factory Hornady.