AR-Stoner 6.5 Grendel barrel short chambered.

[JASmith]

Why does it sound dangerous to work up loads for liberty barrels. Because when I forget somehow, I will put my Lilja loads in a Liberty barrel. ;-(

Yours is an understandable concern, and is the reason many of us have focused on the issues with factory ammunition. Reloaders have multiple options to remedy challenges. It is also the reason for the mantra "know your chamber and create ammunition that is safe for that chamber.

Reloaders owning multiple rifles chambered for the same cartridge face a similar challenge to that faced by the commercial manufacturer. If the possibility that a load is safe in one chamber but questionable in another and the possibility of mixing rifles and ammunition exists, then the prudent course is to configure the ammunition to be safe in all rifles chambered in that cartridge.

The difference between the factory and the handloader is that, while the factory producer works to a standard chamber defined by SAAMI, the reloader can readily work with slight variations of chamber configuration.

To clarify, the core of the earlier debate was the use of SAAMI-compliant factory ammuntion in barrels stamped "6.5 Grendel" which requires that their chambers are also SAAMI-compliant.

The reloader has a lot more latitude, and can easily develop safe loads in chambers that don't quite meet those standards. That is as true of Liberty barrels as it is of any other barrel that comes close to, but might seem a little different than the standard.

The bigger challenge will be what happens if a non-standard chamber stamped "6.5 Grendel" gets transferred to someone who does not reload.

We do not know, but the debate suggests the possibility, that some barrels don't comply with the standard. That is why we need to give folks time and space to sort things out.

In the mean time, know your chamber, load sound ammunition, and shoot a lot!