Why a 6.5 Grendel in a bolt action?

[stokesrj]

Here is one of the reasons I built a 6.5 Grendel bolt gun, gilt edge accuracy. Just try to do this with an AR.




The top pic is a five shot group fired at 100 yards from the bench with my 6.5 Grendel Kelbley Stolle Panda action prone gun. It is the Panda action, polished aluminum, right port with a Krieger barrel chambered by Bench Rest Hall of fame, Speedy Gonzalez with a PTG reamer by the way. The action and barrel are mounted in a McMillan, Anschutz prone stock, has a Timney 2 oz bench rest trigger, and is topped with a Night Force 15-55X Competition scope.
The load, in the top pic and the bottom group in the top target of the second pic, is an 81.5 grain Cauterucio bullet, 32.0 grains of H335, Wolf SRM primer, Alex Arms Brass set for .002" of neck tension, unturned, 2.157" COL and 1.646" base to ogive.
I was doing some load development this morning and tried a half dozen loads, the worst of which shot around 1/2 MOA and several were in the 1s and 2s.
I haven't shot this rifle in a couple of years and decided to dust it off for a match tomorrow.
Bob