Varminterror
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I could get a bolt gun in 6.5 Creedmoor for about the same money and be able to get better performance in addition to feeding my reloading addiction. Part of the deal is that in my old age my 30/06 is starting to hammer my shoulder.
Sigh getting old sucks.
Like has been said countless times, not much difference, I picked the one that makes the most sense on design strength, and in my mind the 6.8 SPC II won out. I'll take the 5moa of more drop at 1,000 yards for stronger bolt, magazine feeding, larger entrance wound and larger combustion chamber behind the bigger bore size to get the bullet moving quicker.
Look at the shoulder angle difference. 30° (Grendel) vs 23° (6.8). That should be all you need to know if you want to use the cartridge in an AR.
23° is the same as 5.56 x 45 and there's a real good reason for that.
Yeah I suppose if you're to dumb to find the trigger there probably isn't much difference between them.@mavracer - ya know, it's funny, I've used StrelokPro for a long time, and I've yet to find the trigger...
Yes, the 6.8's gonna fall transonic before 1,000 with the 120's. Yes, it still runs into the IPSC's I send it after. Just the same as shooting the 6.5 Grendel to 1200.
So there are bad reports on the Grendel in AR's?
Yeah I suppose if you're to dumb to find the trigger there probably isn't much difference between them.
It's called a Ad Hominem attack where the facts don't support your position.I believe he is trying to tell you that real life experience owning and shooting both to 1000 trumps an app on your phone, and I think most reasonable people would agree.
The one thing about grendel is it can support some pretty long VLD bullets that are available for the other 6.5mm rounds. However, you can't often fit these in a AR magazine.
I have zero experience with the 6.8
Makes a lot of sense.Some bullets fair better passing through the transonic transition than others
In the real world all bullets fall out of the sky it's that whole gravity thing slower they go the faster they fall except in Varmintterror's mom's basement wherewher 6.8 has a ACME super stabilizer.The difference: some people think bullets fall out of the sky as soon as StrelokPro says they fall transonic...
Couple of points I've come across. One report claims the 6.5 grendal has magazine problems in that the fat case tends to wobble around inside the magazine causing feed related problems. The other is the 6.8 being a longer cartridge is limited to 115gr. bullets.
I also read the LMT is making a 6.8 rifle with longer proprietory magazines to accommodate the longer bullets.
6.5 Creed bolt gun is sounding better all the time.
Couple of points I've come across. One report claims the 6.5 grendal has magazine problems in that the fat case tends to wobble around inside the magazine causing feed related problems. The other is the 6.8 being a longer cartridge is limited to 115gr. bullets.
Couple of points I've come across. One report claims the 6.5 grendal has magazine problems in that the fat case tends to wobble around inside the magazine causing feed related problems. The other is the 6.8 being a longer cartridge is limited to 115gr. bullets.
Once again you have to forgive my ignorance but I haven't a clue what a "STANAG " is.
Once again you have to forgive my ignorance but I haven't a clue what a "STANAG " is.
Obviously, 6.8 is NOT limited to 115 gr. bullets as Hornady sells factory loaded 120s.