MechaDragon
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5.56x45 has never been more than half what Grendel was at the same time. There has never been anything like parity in their cost. The scale of 5.56x45 production has always dwarfed 6.5 Grendel, and the only way 7.62x39 was ever as cheap as 5.56x45 was because of cheap steel-cased ammo imported from countries in economic shambles. Those countries never produced 65 Grendel.
You don't handload do you? It seems like you're just running a keyboard writing about this mythical SBR in your imagination, but you have no experience with SBR's in any chambering, no experience with handloading 6.5 Grendel or any other AR intermediate cartridge, and I doubt that you even have any substantial experience with a standard AR in the most common barrel length and chambering.
If you want an SBR in an unusual chambering, they're built using custom barrels. What's "offered" doesn't matter. You can't expect to get the best performance without handloading. Factory ammunition isn't going to be suited to short barrels. It will be produced with powder and bullets optimized for the great majority of non-NFA item consumers that are shooting them at higher velocity than will ever come out of an SBR.
You would be so much better off getting experience with a 16" AR in 5.56x45 than wishing for the world to make something different more popular. If you want an SBR, get one without trying to re-invent the wheel. You'll have enough to do just to acquire a regular one without unicorn features. Start handloading. Get those three things together and you'll know a lot more than you do now and you'll be able to make a lot better decision about what's really needed.
Did I ever claim I had any real world experience with them? No, I'm doing this research because I'm interested in the cartridge.
I love how people like to tout about real world experience when there's no possible way to have real world experience before buying the gun.
So I have to do as much research as humanly possible to make the correct decision.
I have experience shooting a fair number of calibers through a fair number of platforms but they are all pretty much standard length 16-in barrels when it comes to rifles that my friends own.
If I knew of somebody who had a 6.5G that I could try out I would absolutely do so, however I do not have that opportunity.
And that doesn't mean that I can't learn a lot about it without using it. That's what research is for. That's why experts test things and chart data. So you can learn about something, before you buy it.
I thought that was self-explanatory, But it seems I was wrong and it needed to be explained.
Here you go, the chart between 6.5G and 300BO is in this video. Have fun learning that literally everything I have said here is FACT, not just an opinion.
The opinion is that because of these facts, it should be more popular - THAT is my OPINION.
6.5 Grendel vs 300 Blackout Review & Comparison
0:00 Intro1:54 6.5 Grendel vs 300 Blackout Cartridge History & Development10:17 Cartridge Sizes 12:53 Trajectory & Kinetic Energy16:15 Wind Deflection16:36 R...
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