10-29-2013, 12:45 AM
middle man Wrote:I'm the "MSR product specialist" for a national firearms distributor...Grendel is growing, yet remains very niche. Hornady only started producing the factory loaded ammo in late 2012, then the hyper market hit and derailed everyone's carefully laid merchandising plans for 2013. Visiting a dealer recently, I found Lapua Grendel brass in stock. The market is very much normalizing and manufacturers are thinking about niche products again.
What major manufacturer would you like to see a 6.5 Grendel from?
Hornady announced the factory 123gr A-MAX in November of 2009, and we started seeing it shipping in Q1 of 2010. I know I started buying it as early as early 2011, if not sooner. The 123gr SST was a Q4 2012-Q1 2013 introduction, with a group buy through this forum numbering tens of thousands of projos.
I would actually like for Federal to get on board with Federal Fusion, as well as an economy multi-purpose bullet.