Wolf to Make 6.5 Grendel Uppers. Read the Article.

[mp510]

it's $10 and change for a box of 20 at Cabela's, so I'm sure you could find it cheaper somewhere. $10-$11 for Grendel ammo is less than half of what AA is selling theirs for. Now, AA does use Lapua brass and bullets and top quality powder, so it's to be expected.

That definetely isn't too bad at all. on par with factory '06.

I was getting hopeful when I saw they were coming out with .30 carbine, but it ended up at the same price as UMC.

 

[HorseSoldier]

Fact checking seems to be a dead art in the media these days, though the gun rags may have seen that art die earlier than others.

 

[aubie515]

It goes to show that you shouldn't always believe what you see or hear at times. Wolf imports ammo, so building AR uppers sounded a bit of a stretch, but hey stranger things have occured.

 

[Reginhild]

Just got a reply back from Wolf in answer to my query about the veracity of the article.


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From: "WOLF Performance Ammunition" <[email protected]>
To: ********
Subject: RE: Wolf AR upper in 6.5 Grendel?
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:23:59 -0700

We never had plans on manufacturing the AR-15 upper receivers, only the
actual 6.5 grendal ammo itself.

Of course, the reps that answer the emails have also known to be wrong. Could be a different division from wolfammo.com and those guys have no knowledge of an up and coming project.

David Fortier, who wrote the article, always has stuck to facts in the past.

 

[Reginhild]

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There are already grendel uppers in the $500 price range, so I doubt that Wolf will be able to offer it any cheaper.

Where? I'm interested - VERY interested.

I agree...I'd snap that up in a New York minute. About $800-900 is the cheapest I've seen.

Alexander Arms sells their 14.5" and 16" Tactical 6.5 Grendel Model uppers for $580....of course they seem to have a 4+ month waiting list right now due to demand.

 

[Lichter]

If Bill Alexander had named it something cooler like 6.5 Warrior or 6.5 Destoyer rather than 6.5 Grendel, then he would probably be selling more rifles. Marketing is important ..............

I think Grendel is a pretty cool name, after all Grendel man eateing monster who was killed by getting its arm ripped from its socket by Beowulf. I guess somebody up at AA is into old english literature

 

[iamkris]

I, for one, hope that it is true because the current manufacturers have priced the uppers or barrel/bolt sets at a level that will keep me from buying one...too many other gun priorities.

That said, I'm not going to hold my breath. From a business perspective, that would be an somewhat odd upper to start with. I highly doubt they would make it themselves...most likely just be the marketing front. It is a relatively open field so they wouldn't have much competition...but I also am not sure they would have enough of a market to justrify this being their only offereing. Granted, if they started in the 5.56 or 6.8SPC area, it is already crowded (there are already high precision, specialized and budget offereings out there) and they would have a tough time making a dent.