Anyone have any experence with Alexander Arms?

[Kachok]

My friend the big bore junkie is now drooling over a 50 Beowulf but that is only made by Alexander Arms, of all the ARs I have shot I have zero experience with them, anyone have any hands on experience they would care to share, are the worth the money or would he be better served to go with the Rock River 458 Socom?

 

[95XL883]

No experience with the Beowolf except lusting after it.

I ordered a 6.5 Grendel upper on 1/2/13. I called a couple of weeks ago and was told it would be another 6 to 8 weeks. The lady was very nice. I ordered some ammo then as they said t was 6 to 8 weeks. My cc hasn't been charged yet for either order.

I'm in no rush so right now I'm happy.

 

[TIMC]

I have a couple of the AA rifles, the big bad Beowulf and the Grendel. Both guns are very nice, the wulf does ugly things to pigs and the Grendel is a super accurate shooting rifle. I have taken a lot of game with these 2 guns and they always get a lot of attention at the range, people always wanting to know about them.
Ammo is hard to find and very expensive for the wulf. I hand load and have a bunch of brass for mine so it is not a big deal.

 

[Goju]

I have (2) AA 6.5 Grendel uppers, on lowers I've built myself. Their uppers are top quality. I have. 16" upper I use for hunting and a 20" mid weight barrel range gun. Both are very accurate. I've also used AA for minor mods that I did not have the tools for the job. Relatively quick turn around times with no problems.

 

[Lloyd Smale]

love my beowulf. Is probably the last ar id part with.

 

[Kachok]

Thanks for the input guys, seems they live up to their billing. I think the 50 Beowulf would be a fantastic sloberknocker for him if he can deal with the 9+lbs weight (he likes to stalk hunt) How does the 50 do on game, does the large caliber make for alot of meat damage or is it slow enough to avoid that problem? Just for my own curiosity how does the performance on deer compare to more conventional cartridges like the 30-06? I would think that a large caliber at modest speeds would be a little less of a bang flopper and more of a very short, very heavy blood trail bullet, but 50 caliber is awful big and might hit hard enough to put them down where they stand even at only 1800fps.
Some day I would love to have a 6.5 Grendel but I am so broke right now my wallet hurts just thinking about it. An 18" 6.3lbs superbly accurate AR with a legit 300+yd effective range would make for one helluva hunting carbine especially in hog country.

 

[TIMC]

I wouldn't call the Wulf an effective 300 yard gun, a stretch at 200 since it has a trajectory like a softball in a slow pitch game.

This is my 300 yard plus pig killer, DPMS LR308 with Leupold Mark 4 6.5-20x50mm scope.


The Grendel is capable of reaching way out there at great accuracy and does well on anything I put it on.
Here are a few evil black rifle hunting picks...

 

[Kachok]

I was talking about the 6.5 Grendel being a 300+ yard gun, the 50 is a 150-200yd gun from what I understand.

 

[joustin]

They seem to be a quality product. I'd vote 458 SOCOM as I've heard the 50 is harder to load for. But I like a challenge so I might go 50.

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[TIMC]

I was talking about the 6.5 Grendel being a 300+ yard gun, the 50 is a 150-200yd gun from what I understand.

Yes the Grendel is definitely good for that, she is just getting warmed up at 300 yards and capable of shooting very well at several times that. I can highly recommend it. Since I don't have the opportunity to shoot more than 400 yards where I hunt I chose to run the 129 grain SST's out of my Grendel and does excellent with that bullet.

 

[Kachok]

Oh yeah I know the Grendel is still super sonic to 1,100 yards, and still meets my standards (full expansion and 1,000+ ft/lbs) out to 400 yards in a long barrel and about 350 in a carbine, very impressive for an intermediate cartridge.

 

[backbencher]

I have a .458" upper on order for someone's birthday present, I chose it over the Beowulf purely on mags - a .458" uses a standard AR mag, .450" Bushmaster & the Beowulf you have to tweak the mag lips a bit.

 

[TIMC]

I have a .458" upper on order for someone's birthday present, I chose it over the Beowulf purely on mags - a .458" uses a standard AR mag, .450" Bushmaster & the Beowulf you have to tweak the mag lips a bit.

Not really, My Wulf will take standard mags all day long and function just fine but it does scratch up the brass a bit.