I picked up an AR in 6.5 Grendel, it has a 20” barrel with 1:8 twist. and I am looking for bullets that people have had the best accuracy with. I plan to hunt pigs and deer. Thanks
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I picked up an AR in 6.5 Grendel, it has a 20” barrel with 1:8 twist. and I am looking for bullets that people have had the best accuracy with. I plan to hunt pigs and deer. Thanks
The 1-8" twist will handle and stabilize a lot more bullet than the cartridge will use effectively.
120s are probably going to be as good as it gets for keeping terminal effect .
140s will see good long range retention of energy but it will be past 300 yd before you see the advantage.
160s while stable will be both deep seated and closing on subs if there is data .
I would stay away from anything premium and stay with cup and core types .
Sierra avoiding the Kings should be good .
Hornady interlocks will be good .
The Grendel is a cartridge that is much like the other Armalite design cartridges it will allow many of the designed for the caliber target HPs because of it's reduced velocities make fair game bullets within reason.
I have a 22” 1-8” twist Grendel. I’ve had excellent results with Barnes 100gr TTSX @2800fps, and Hornady 123gr SST @2550fps. I haven’t shot anything but paper with these loads but they are very accurate.
I have some Nosler 120gr ballistic tips that I’m going to try next (when I get around to it). I also have some Hornady 95gr VMax that are on the list.
The bullet I really want is the Speer 120gr gold dot, if I can ever find any.
In my opinion, the Grendel is at its best for hunting with 100-120ish grain bullets, any more weight and velocity starts falling off fast.
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I loaded 129 interlock and seems to be long for my Gun. I have some 95 gr. V max and 123 gr. SST. I am going to load a few of each in the next few days and will post results.
Excellent. I’m looking forward to hearing about it. What powders are you going to try?Quote:
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II have CFE223, BLc2, and Benchmark. Also found some 100 and 120 gr. Nosler BT.
You should get some good results with those. I really like benchmark.
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Jeffrey- What part of North Texas are you in?
Denton.Quote:
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Denton !? That's DFW not Northern. :)
Yup. DFW is part of North Texas. Are you from around here somewhere Harter?Quote:
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120 north of Texarkana.
Used to have inlaws in Denton and Honey Grove .
My daughter is down in San Antonio, I pass through once in a while.
I drove across 40 a couple of dozen times been down to Crockett and Gonzales a few times.
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I finally got out to the range and shot the Grendel. I loaded Hornady 129 gr Interlock, Hornady 95 gr. V-Max, and Nosler 120 BT. Attachment 1859Attachment 1859Attachment 1860Attachment 1861
The groups are not what I wanted, it was cold and I did not have enough of a coat. Going to load up some more and give it another try on a warmer day.
Looks like the vmax was trying to be ok. I’m curious what seating depth you were using on the 120gr ballistic tip?
The weather is supposed to be beautiful Sunday.
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I am working overtime today (Saturday) have my regular shift tomorrow and work more overtime on Monday. I will look and let you know the OAL. I am going to repeat these loads to see if they react the same on a warmer day.
Work gets in the way of so much fun stuff.
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My starting length after measuring my chamber is 2.635".
Nosler recommends 2.245” for the 120gr ballistic tips. The reason I bring this up is because of the horizontal stringing in that group with the ballistic tips. A lot of times horizontal like that can be fixed with seating depth. It may be worth trying the Nosler seating depth to see what happens.Quote:
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