I have been over there and also looking up AR loads on Load Data. Just load the BT and Parition and see what I get for accuracy. Expecting the BT to be more accurate. Trying Benchmark right now, as that is what I have in stock.
6.5 Grendel Nosler Bullet Choice - Deer Hunting
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Own two Grendels. One shooting120 ELDM. Other is my deer killer! 85 grain Hammer Hunter at 3000 FPS. Easy out to 350 yards. It hits them like a lightning strike. Its out of a bolt gun, but 16 to 18 inch gas gun should get 2900 without much problem. I'm using Alliant PPV. You will have to work up your own load.
Seeing where 31.7 of TAC works. Not much more out there. May try and duplicate some data from another copper core bullet.
You can push hammers faster than regular copper bullets before you hit pressure. Usually about100 to 150 FPS. Go with a faster burn powder than you would normally use. Tac was not stable with ES. Pretty big variance. Power pro varmint gave the best overall performance. But something else in that burn range might be better for you. I'm getting 2997 to 3017 high and low speed. Very accurate from CZ527. There is data here and on the Grendel forum for load data as well as on hammer time. Good luck.
I was USAF 1971 to 75. When did you serve. If it was another time in history I would have stayed.
1988 - 2008. It was a good time to serve and I understand why the time you were in was rough. Not to much liking to the military back in that time. Would not serve now, though.
Thanks much. It is good to get feedback on what powders are stable and which ones are squirrely.
When I traveled I'd have to be in uniform for military hops but if it was any other air travel I wore civies. You got ugly looks from people when in uniform.
Starting to get like that again.
In my AR they couldn't even muster 2500 fps in a 20 Bartlein barrel. And the accuracy just wasn't there. I find the ABLR to be the hardest bullet to tune across many different calibers/cartridges. As mentioned above the bullet is really too long for the Grendel in an AR magazine. It eats up a lot of precious powder space.
Oddly my wife's 6.5x47 shot them in the .3 with the first load I tried.
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Thats sad. I remember it was 2008 or so and my son had come home from USMC boot camp and was flying out to SOI. We were in the airport bar and so many people were buying us beers we got hammered lol.
Had couple of friends come back from their vacation in Southeast Asia. They had to travel in uniform, and *** holes would be waiting for them in SF airport to verbally assault them. Asking how many babies they killed. These people worked in admin or flight lines. None were even armed. But you were all lumped together, No matter what branch of service you were in. Sorry to derail you post I'll shut up now.
Calvin45
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I'd shy away from the etip out of a cartridge with this low of a velocity. Either of the others will be fine, when in doubt the partition isn't the only right answer but it's pretty much never the wrong one
I like that. Yeah, between partitions and BTs.
