6.5 Grendel PTG Reamer

[NugginFutz]

^^^^ This

Trying to deduce anything from a picture (disregard it not being a Grendel reamer) is ridiculous.

But I think you may be onto something...PTG reamers may not be in SAAMI spec (actually, I already posed that question in the locked thread).

As I see it, the issue here is that some of us have been asking the manufacturer to affirm that their product is in spec. According to the second-hand responses we've been reading in the closed thread, XCR, through rickOshay, (post #112) tells us Steve Satern said "We buy the reamers from PTG and JGS, and they have the print from SAAMI and that's what we follow." and that "As far as the throat goes, we will talk to PTG and JGS to see if there has been a change that we have not been made aware of. ". His follow up to that is related by Tedward, (post #306), when he wrote "(Steve) has taken this concern to PPG (sic), the reamer manufacture (sic), and both of them have aggreed (sic) it is the way the throat was designed by AA and submitted to SAAMI along with Hornady." Bwaites confirmed this in post #497, when he wrote that Steve Satern "...still feels that the chambers are dimensionally correct.".

So, you see, according to the three parties in question (Satern, PTG and JGS), the issue is settled, as far as they are concerned. In other words, it is apparently up to the consumer to prove that the reamer (and resulting chamber) is not in spec, since PTG, JGS and Satern have reportedly taken the position that they are. The key to this would obviously be that when a qualified third party evaluates the reamer, they compare it to the published standard.

Even then, it will be up to Satern or PTG to agree that the findings of that third party are valid, or that the reamer examined is dimensionally the same as the one they are using. Throughout the previous thread, though, nowhere did we hear directly from Steve Satern. Until then, in my opinion, his official position on these reamers (and barrels) is still officially unsettled.

We have been assured, however, that Satern will be making a post on this site, within the next day or so (bwaites, post #497). What it will reveal remains to be seen.