08-15-2011, 07:54 PM
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...I've never seen a plain-jane model reviewed. Standard trigger, barrel, the whole, basic thing.
JW
I own a factory Grendel Entry upper which I purchased to hunt with. It is the basic 19.5 inch barrel, not the Shilen upgrade. I believe the Hunter barrel is the same as Entry, just different handguard (but free floated).
It is very accurate with my handloads (129SST, .5 MOA). It was MOA with factory ammo that I tried (129SST, Lapua 123).
Had I all over to do again, I would go with Shilen option (at the time, I didn't want to wait for the Shilen). Hard to argue with five shots - five whitetails though.
It sits upon a RRA lower that I built up, so can't comment on AA trigger.
Those barrels are heavy, I wouldn't consider them to be stalking guns (at least not all day in the mountains)...but they make great bench and stand guns.
I'm just completing a Grendel stalking gun built from the ground up around 18" double fluted SS barrel (Satern Spartan).