10-24-2014, 06:55 PM
What advantage is served? Picking up 100 FPS, 200 FPS? Why would I go to the expense of adding another Grendel, for which I would have to load different than my current rifles, (when I am VERY satisfied with them!) to pick up such a minimal advantage?
You can't make the Grendel a .260 or 6.5 Creedmoor, there simply isn't enough boilerroom. We already can load bullets that are at max weight for the powder capacity, adding the ability to load a little longer gains us minimal improvement for the expense.
The 6.8 made sense, because they couldn't load a decent BC projectile in longer than Grendel case. We can. And we already have rifles capable of larger cases if we want to load longer bullets. Go to DPMS and get them to run 6.5 Creedmoor in their new .308 platform. Essentially the same weight as most AR15's, but lots more room for powder in that case.
You can't make the Grendel a .260 or 6.5 Creedmoor, there simply isn't enough boilerroom. We already can load bullets that are at max weight for the powder capacity, adding the ability to load a little longer gains us minimal improvement for the expense.
The 6.8 made sense, because they couldn't load a decent BC projectile in longer than Grendel case. We can. And we already have rifles capable of larger cases if we want to load longer bullets. Go to DPMS and get them to run 6.5 Creedmoor in their new .308 platform. Essentially the same weight as most AR15's, but lots more room for powder in that case.
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