New Howa Micro Action- POLL ADDED

[am4966]

Thanks for posting the pictures adamjp! Now if Howa would just get the 6.5 Grendel's to the distributors. I think I'd like to try a Howa 20" bull barrel 6.5 Grendel in a Houge over molded stock. From your pictures the 1500 Micro Action 223 looks like it had the 22" tapered barrel, is that correct?

Yes, I'd like it with a 20"-22" barrel, I'd shoot the factory barrel for a little bit. Until I saved money for a new barrel, I've always wanted a Broughton 5C. But id have to think about what barrel when it came down to it.

[adamjp]

Thanks for posting the pictures adamjp! Now if Howa would just get the 6.5 Grendel's to the distributors. I think I'd like to try a Howa 20" bull barrel 6.5 Grendel in a Houge over molded stock. From your pictures the 1500 Micro Action 223 looks like it had the 22" tapered barrel, is that correct?

I didn't measure the barrel length, but it was the sporter profile and the rifle was very light and balanced well as a stalker, not a varmiter.

As they don't list a barrel shorter than 20in, I'm going with 20in length.

[Drift]

You know, if Howa ever gets around to selling the Grendel as a lightweight hunting rifle to be used on North American whitetail deer, there gonna make a fortune. Factory ammo in multiple varieties will explode onto the shelf of sporting goods stores. Other hunting rifle manufactures will rush to compete and prices will go down.

[SteveFrench]

The comments in this article appear to be from a Legacy Sports rep and they confirm the Grendel for 2016.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/...tion-line/

[kmon]

Very cool, will be glad when they are available

[Drift]

Lets see; 5.6 pounds. 20 inch barrel. So maybe put a 2x7 Leupold VX-R on it. You end up with a hunting rife that weighs in at 6lbs and shoots accurately to 1000 yards. What other production rifle even comes close?

[BluntForceTrauma]

With Hornady already having the ammo on the market with SST and Amax loads and
GMX coming . . . Andy McCormick, President, Legacy Sports International, Inc

Hmmm . . . Did Mr. McCormick actually let something slip about a new Hornady 6.5 Grendel GMX loading or was he only speaking in generalities?

Here's to — please, God, not the existing, too-long 6.5mm 120 GMX — but to a 6.5 Grendel with a dedicated 90, 95, or 100 GMX! (Sneaky, on the forum here, recently drilled a big Minnesota buck with his homemade 6.5mm 77gr GMX!)