02-23-2014, 11:17 PM
Personally, reading the (yet another) Grendle copout on the Satern website makes me wonder how this guy stays in business. Seems just about everyone else can make Grendel barrels work. Satern & CSS have fights with AA, and then do their own thing. From there out there are issues with their barrels that others do not have. Les Baer did have an issue with early Hornady brass/ammo along with CSS, but seems to have resolved this.
His rep is too good for this to be competency issues.
My read: Satern & CSS know exactly how to prevent this type of issue, but chose not to just to stick it to AA and the Grendel due to bad blood. It's a small part of their business, and probably probably a pain. I don't think they wake up and gloat how can they stick it to AA. But if they encounter an issue, rather than figure out how to address it like they do for other calibers, they just blame it on AA. Then post a cop-out like the most recent one. Which is half their version of history and an implication that AA screwed up.
One of the advantages of the Grendel is the compound throat. It works well with many bullets and seating depths. I've seen this repeatedly with grendel barrels from 3 mfgs including AA.
So Satern is doing something different. Cut a different reamer, interpreted the prints differently or something. But other mfg's are not having issues with the throat.
His rep is too good for this to be competency issues.
My read: Satern & CSS know exactly how to prevent this type of issue, but chose not to just to stick it to AA and the Grendel due to bad blood. It's a small part of their business, and probably probably a pain. I don't think they wake up and gloat how can they stick it to AA. But if they encounter an issue, rather than figure out how to address it like they do for other calibers, they just blame it on AA. Then post a cop-out like the most recent one. Which is half their version of history and an implication that AA screwed up.
One of the advantages of the Grendel is the compound throat. It works well with many bullets and seating depths. I've seen this repeatedly with grendel barrels from 3 mfgs including AA.
So Satern is doing something different. Cut a different reamer, interpreted the prints differently or something. But other mfg's are not having issues with the throat.