Hunting & Fishing The Grendel finally drew blood!

[Sauce787]

I finally put a yote down with the 6.5! Took the half mile hike to my favorite deer spot and set up the call. Sat maybe 10 minutes before I started calling. Made it about a minute through a 2 minute cotton tail calling sequence and had two of them crest a hill about 125 yards out. Yote 1 dropped where he stood and the second made it back over the hill before I could get on him. Building the gun myself made the hunt sooo much sweeter.

 

[coldboremiracle]

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Nice work, how about some details on the gun?

 

[mdesign]

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Good job!

 

[7mmRM]

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Good job!!

 

[Wyfox]

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Congrats, nice looking stick too.

 

[Sauce787]

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The gun was a project for gunsmithing school. It's a palmetto lower with a magpul prs, larue grip, and geissele dmr trigger. the upper is a white oak with a stainless green mountain barrel I contoured from a blank, chambered in 6.5 grendel, crowned, and threaded for the barrel extension. Then duracoated in a 2 tone fde and coyote brown. To top it all off is a Leupold vx-r patrol 3-9 in an American Defense 1 piece mount.

 

[Sauce787]

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p.s. thanks for all the praise guys and sorry the pics are so grainy. The iPad was the only camera I had available at the moment.

 

[jcfd2201]

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Way to get it done!! I love the Grendel and the 6WOA for yote whacking! Looks like a good solid build and it obviously works well.

 

[Sauce787]

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The 6.5 Grendel is an absolute joy to shoot. Extremely accurate, low recoil, and the loads I've got worked up are surprisingly quiet. I saw the coyote drop and the first thought through my head was "that wasn't as loud as I thought it'd be!"

 

[ToolsoftheTrade]

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Congratulations! Nice looking yotr, I felt the same way when I got my first with my general build, what load are you using?

 

[Accusource8541]

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Nice looking rifle! I working on a Grendel build too.

 

[Sauce787]

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the load is 123gr a-maxes with 28 grains of 8208 in Hornady brass

 

[ToolsoftheTrade]

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Here is my 1st blood with my grendel build, I'm using the 95gr Vmax with 8208, work great. Need to develop my 123gr load.

 

[Sauce787]

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I'd really like to give the 123gr sst's a try compared to the a-max. The effect on coyotes would probably be minimal but it would still be interesting.

 

[InsidetheStorm]

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Bad news guy... thats someones Australian Shepard... Bummer.

Nice dog though.

 

[Sauce787]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: InsidetheStorm</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Bad news guy... thats someones Australian Shepard... Bummer.

Nice dog though. </div></div>

THAT explains why it was carrying a tennis ball in its mouth.... oops

 

[gonzaga]

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I haven't put any fur down with mine yet. That's a nice looking rifle. You should be proud, not too many people can do what you have done. Not any that I know anyway.

 

[Strykervet]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sauce787</div><div class="ubbcode-body">the load is 123gr a-maxes with 28 grains of 8208 in Hornady brass</div></div>

I have one that is basically a KAC rifle with a Satern bbl. I get .33MOA using 100gr. Hornady AMAX and Lapua brass. Primers are CCI military and powder is AA1680 (I think it is 1680). For some reason, this is the most accurate load I've found.

Bill Alexander told me that the 120gr. (Berger or Nosler) is the best bullet in his tests. I haven't tried his recommendation yet, but others still only give me about .5-1MOA (including one of the SMK's). Not bad, but once you taste that one hole 5 shot group it's hard to go backwards.

The optimum weight for my rifle should be 120, as I had the rifling cut specifically for that, but turns out it likes 100gr. AMAX best. And not at all seated according to spec., it is some made up shit I went with to get it to chamber properly. Go figure.

Best damn AR caliber there is if you ask me. I'll be building another for sure.

 

[Sauce787]

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I'll have to give those 120gr bergers a try. Ive got a gift certificate for three one hundred round boxes I need to get sent in.

 

[warbird2006]

Congratulations