Thread: 6.5 grandel

Originally Posted by Flyblown

About 7-8 years ago or thereabouts almost overnight this cartridge become really popular with my cuzzies in the central US. All of a sudden they were Grendelling this and Grendelling that and to be honest I didn’t have a clue what they were on about, had to look it up.

Remained pretty ignorant about it (couldn’t really see the point) until I visited last and had a go for myself. They have them in suppressed ARs and use them almost exclusively for head shooting feral hogs at night. Pop pop pop pop pop pop... Its very light recoiling and extremely accurate in a sorted AR rig. I don’t recall what bullets they were using. Far more knock down that a .223 and nowhere near as much drama as an AR-10. For a lightweight night time rig it was an excellent choice and I really really liked it.

I believe the one cuz now uses a 6.5 Grendel in a bolt rifle for close in whitetail deer stalking very successfully. Sub 100m kind of woods shooting, little-ish deer.

Just a few days ago in Taranaki we were using a tricked up AR15 for fallow and goats and I said I would prefer a Grendel over the .223 any day of the week. Cheap ammo would be a problem I would assume.

Flyblown, any advantage over a 7.62x39 for those uses?