Greetings from 65 miles west of Chicago
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Hello 65Grendel forum members,

I'm Junior, and I love shooting sports. I shoot steel and paper targets out at the club I belong to. I'm not a hunter, it's something I've just never had the desire to try. That said, I totally understand why we need hunters and how essential they are to the eco system. I love spending a lot of time out at the club shooting both pistol and rifle.

I got my first 6.5 Grendel a few months ago and haven't put too many rounds through it as I'm recovering (slowly) from a total left hip replacement. It's a poverty pony (20" fluted stainless barrel, 17" MLOK rail) complete upper from BCA (yikes) that has only been fed a diet of the poverty pony Wolf 100 grain cartridges thus far. It's mounted to an Anderson lower with an MBT trigger and a Strike Industries flat buffer spring, with a Luth MB3 stock. It's topped off with a Vortex Diamondback Tactical 6-24x50,( I love this scope) mounted in a Burris PEPR QD. Best group I've been able to get so far was just over 2 MOA, (more luck than skill) with the average being closer to 3 - 3.25 MOA. Worst group so far (5 shot) was about 5 MOA (ouch) All from the bench with a rest. I've only taken it out to 200 yards so far, and it was ringing steel pretty consistently at that distance.

I'm waiting on Black Friday to see if I can catch a nicer barrel at a decent price. Also hoping to catch a deal on some quality brass cased ammo for this upper. I've been reading through the forum a bit lately, and there's a ton of really great info here.
Thanks to all for sharing it.

Junior
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#2
Welcome to the clan, Jr, from the great nation of Texas! For Wolf ammo, your groups aren't "so" bad. After you've run a hundred or so rounds thru it, get some real ammo and give it a try. Take's about aa half a box for the barrel to season to the new ammo but you may start getting pretty good groups.
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Welcome to the forum Junior! Barnaul who manufacturers the steel case ammo for Wolf are now selling this ammo under their company name in the USA. Barnaul’s web site list the accuracy of their 100 FMJ 6.5 Grendel ammo as 3 MOA. You can get Hornady American Gunner 200 round boxes of 123 grain BTHP for decent prices and Hornady 123 grain black ELD-M for around $18 a box of 20 rounds online. I’m outside the Chicago metro area and can get ammo shipped to my house. You might be out of luck ordering online if your in Cook County.
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#4
Welcome to the horde sir.
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