Not without explaining your reasons for why. If you are going to take a side so emphatically, produce your evidence.I'm sorry
The 6.5 Grendel is the better cartridge. End of story.
Not without explaining your reasons for why. If you are going to take a side so emphatically, produce your evidence.I'm sorry
The 6.5 Grendel is the better cartridge. End of story.
Grendel= ability at moderate to longer ranges.Not without explaining your reasons for why. If you are going to take a side so emphatically, produce your evidence.
And it looks like you had fun doing it!I’ve killed a few deer and a bunch of pigs with my 6.8.
Grendel= wider range of bullet weight for reloaders.
I don’t have any insight, but I am currently making this decision myself. Started on the 6.8 side, but now I’m leaning 6.5. My build would primarily be for punching paper. The above information has been helpful.
My Howa Mini spits out 130 grain bullets from my 6.5 Grendel at 2450 with incredible accuracy. The downrange velocity and energy of that bullet will easily overtake a 30/30 at 100 yards, and my beloved 30/30 is no match for the little Grendel at longer ranges.I posted this on another forum.
After consulting with various reloading manuals I've found that the one limitation to the 6.8 SPC is bullet weight. Max recommended is 115grainers although Hornady makes a 120gr. bullet with a short ogive that will work.
As I understand it LMT makes a rifle dedicated to the 6.8 but requires it's own magazines that are wider to except longer cartridges.
SPC shoots 115gr. bullets to 2600fps. While the Grendel shoots 123gr. to around 2400fps. Think I'm better off with a 150gr. 30/30. View attachment 825722
And it looks like you had fun doing it!
Not sure what bullet you plugged in to get your chart, but all the 110-115gr 6.8 loads I plugged in dropped from supersonic around 800 yards, there are 1/2 dozen 6.5 loads that are supersonic to 1k and there's almost 10' difference in drop between the 115 nosler 6.8 load and the 123gr Hornady black 6.5 in favor of the 6.5I put this together a few years ago. Add bullet weight to the 6.8 and you gain a little BC and lose commensurate speed, so they only get tighter together downrange. Add barrel length to the Grendel and you pick up some speed, making up for some early energy lag... nothing to get excited about. Want to see something interesting, throw the 6.5 Creed and 308win on top of this - there’s a difference between those two. No appreciable difference between these two.
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Not sure what bullet you plugged in to get your chart, but all the 110-115gr 6.8 loads I plugged in dropped from supersonic around 800 yards, there are 1/2 dozen 6.5 loads that are supersonic to 1k and there's almost 10' difference in drop between the 115 nosler 6.8 load and the 123gr Hornady black 6.5 in favor of the 6.5
I was using loads listed in my Streloc pro app, I don't have a dog in the fight. It sure seems that 6.8 guys are into coolaid.I don’t recall exactly what bullet I used, but I can say I think you picked a very modest 6.8 load, or you’re comparing a 16” SPC load to a 24” Grendel - or maybe some old SPC Spec I data. Been loading and shooting these rounds for over 15yrs, not just looking up numbers online.