LaRue 6.5 Grendel Rifles

[danm]

Wow, gorgeous!!! So range today?!?!?!?

[NugginFutz]

Unlikely, as LRRPF52 is still recovering from a torn achilles tendon. Heal faster, Dude!!!

[danm]

Unlikely, as LRRPF52 is still recovering from a torn achilles tendon. Heal faster, Dude!!!

Ouch... must've missed that... Nasty injury, I had a buddy in high school that cut his completely when he slipped on his bmx pedal...

[BjornF16]

LaRue Deep Hole Drilling:

Interesting video, but that doesn't tell me how they rifle the barrel, only drill the initial hole (unless I missed something in the video)

[carlhwv]

LaRue Deep Hole Drilling:

Interesting video, but that doesn't tell me how they rifle the barrel, only drill the initial hole (unless I missed something in the video)

I'm pretty sure polygonal rifled like Lothar barrels that were usd b fore bringing the barrel process in hous..

[Cleric]

So I have been debating a Grendel for a while. I cracked and bought the larue. I have always wanted a larue and thought this was a good value. My plan is to make this my hunting gun. To start will use hornady sst

[danm]

So I have been debating a Grendel for a while. I cracked and bought the larue. I have always wanted a larue and thought this was a good value. My plan is to make this my hunting gun. To start will use hornady sst

Awesome! When's range time???

[LRRPF52]

Unlikely, as LRRPF52 is still recovering from a torn achilles tendon. Heal faster, Dude!!!

This past year has been pretty rough on me and my family.

First had a stroke last August, got diagnosed with a life-changing auto-immune disorder that attacks my anti-clotting factors, then snapped my Achilles in May. It's been extremely difficult on my wife.

We just think we're getting a handle on things, when the ceiling bows out into a bubble downstairs. Water leak, which needed to be repaired. I can't help much at all other that stand around and look useless, while we have to call on help from others.

Out of the blue, I get an email from Mark LaRue that he's sending me a Stealth 2.0 rifle. Everyone here knows I'm probably the last one that needs another 18" Grendel.

This gift really lifted our spirits, and reminded me that I needed to be more generous to others. I can't think of the last time someone ever did something this nice for us.

[Fredman]

Sorry to here you're having health issues LR, hoping for a fast recovery. I'm 57 and dodging issues( minus back issues). I've got a close friend that has leukemia , and another that had chest pains and found out he had three arteries completely blocked. You never know what's around the corner. My secret, eat, drink, and be merry!

That was a stellar thing for Mark Larue to do. If you have too many ARs and no room, my address is......

Good luck!

[Cleric]

Awesome! When's range time???

Truth be told will be a while. Can't figure out which optic...

Thinking either 1-6 pst2 or 1.5-8 xtr2

May just slap a 4-16 pst1 I have laying around for fun

[stangfan94]

This past year has been pretty rough on me and my family.

First had a stroke last August, got diagnosed with a life-changing auto-immune disorder that attacks my anti-clotting factors, then snapped my Achilles in May. It's been extremely difficult on my wife.

We just think we're getting a handle on things, when the ceiling bows out into a bubble downstairs. Water leak, which needed to be repaired. I can't help much at all other that stand around and look useless, while we have to call on help from others.

Out of the blue, I get an email from Mark LaRue that he's sending me a Stealth 2.0 rifle. Everyone here knows I'm probably the last one that needs another 18" Grendel.

This gift really lifted our spirits, and reminded me that I needed to be more generous to others. I can't think of the last time someone ever did something this nice for us.

I might not have a sweet rifle to give you but you do have my thanks. It was your well thought out posts and endless useful information and advice that got me interested in the 6.5G in the first place. 30 minutes ago I finished building my first grendel AR and I can't wait to hit the range! Thanks for what you do and keep it up!

[DuneShoot]

Hope all ends up well for you.
Looking forward to your range report when you're able.

[carlhwv]

I might not have a sweet rifle to give you but you do have my thanks. It was your well thought out posts and endless useful information and advice that got me interested in the 6.5G in the first place. 30 minutes ago I finished building my first grendel AR and I can't wait to hit the range! Thanks for what you do and keep it up!

Goes double for me. I never heard of a Grendel let alone dreamed of building an entire rifle before reading your stuff LR. Now that I've built two I can honestly say that while I love LaRues stuff...I've got more than one....that my current Grendel, while maybe not looking as pretty, shoots so well I can't justify spending 2k on another one. Without your guidance no way in hell would this have been possible. Get well soon and thanks for all you do to make us all better.

[carlhwv]

Truth be told will be a while. Can't figure out which optic...

Thinking either 1-6 pst2 or 1.5-8 xtr2

May just slap a 4-16 pst1 I have laying around for fun

I've shot my 6.5G with a Leupold Mark6 1-6, Mark4 4.5-14, and VX6 2-12. As I'm going to be using this as a hunting rifle, max 400 yards, I like the 2-12 the best, as it gives me great close in views, while being able to crank it up for the drop at 400. I'm using a 200yd zero. Still working on the load....looking at the ABLR 129gr and ttsx 100gr.

[ccasanova]

If someone posts some tight groups with factory Hornady Amax or SST I'd pick up the upper.

My heart says please do...wife and wallet says please don't.

[carlhwv]

Uppes are on sale. Have to buy the whole package but it's under 900. Everything but the stripped lower. Someone just posted a 3 shot one hole group in the LaRue thread on Ar15 with a Grendel.

[Kswhitetails]

Well, so much for that HOWA in the works, sorry Brownel's. I may be posting my Grendel in the sale sections on a few boards soon...

LRRP, get well, and get up soon. I ruptured two discs at the base of my spine in July of 16, and am just now getting back to "normal". I am making no plans for this falls game season, I still can't imagine dragging out a carcass... I can empathize with your struggles. This too, will pass. Keep looking up, and keep posting things that make the rest of us envious. Be well, and keep your chin up. You have a Larue to review!

[rabiddawg]

Have truck will travel

Will drag carcasses for an invite

[LRRPF52]

The main thing I am taking away from this rifle after a short range trip on Friday is how smoothly it runs.

I loaded up a mag of Federal 120gr OTM Match, inserted it, and wanted to see how it fed from bolt hold open.

Stripped the cartridge off and into the chamber so quickly and smoothly that it was like butter.

Firing the rifle feels like this is the correct cartridge for the AR15, not .223 Remington. It just had this strange normalcy about how beautifully it functioned to me, based on decades of driving these guns. Honestly, it felt more like a tuned race gun than a rack-grade operating system, even though it uses a standard buffer and recoil spring arrangement, standard weight carrier, and a LaRue low profile gas block. The Tranquillo brake makes this higher-pitched bark that sounds like the Robocop gun or a drill almost. It has a very unique sound on the range, without the obnoxious concussion of most gilled brakes.

My POA never moved more than 1.5" off of initial POA, and the rifle handles so smoothly, I fell in love with it even more first shot. I blasted through several strings of ammo before we had to go, doing rapid 5-round groups using the 1.5-6x Burris with a fairly large dot aiming point in the reticle. I'm going to mount a higher magnification Vortex with a finer reticle and take my time next trip, maybe work up a load with 8208XBR or AR Comp and see what it likes.

My first group was literally in the exact grid location as Mark LaRue's test-fired group. Keep in mind the scope and swag box was shipped separately, and there were marks on the upper rail showing that a scope mount had in fact been installed for test-fire. That level of return-to-zero was astonishing really, and reminds me of the story when Mark did his elk hunt up in Wyoming by showing up without optics mounted, telling the guide it would be ok. The guide was already majorly concerned about a customer showing up with a puny little AR15, and now he doesn't have his scope mounted? Mark told him not to worry, at which point the guide figured this guy must be nuts. 405yd shot on a rather nice bull with a 120gr TSX and all questions were answered after that point.

I'm a skeptic when it comes to all these marketing campaigns and hype, so even with stuff that has proven itself to me, I still remain cock-eyed and am waiting for the failure point at some time.

This rifle makes me feel like someone who spent their childhood and entire adult life learning how to drive and build a hot rod racecar, only to have a performance shop come along and smoke me with theirs.

[NugginFutz]

Curse you, LRRPF52. Curse you and your tantalizing reviews. Oh, wait. What's that other thing? Right! I mean to say "Thank you, for these tantalizing reviews." (My wife curses you, but only because of budget variances induced by reading such information.) Ok, she doesn't really curse you, but she says you should send financial support for the extra dependents in my safe for which you are partially responsible.

Very nice to hear the Larue runs smoothly. Looking forward to your 500 round report.