6.5 Grendel AR

[Superfly]

I am looking to buy or build a 6.5 grendel AR so if anyone has one for sale I am totally interested and if any of you have any suggestions for me on what and where to buy or brands of stuff to buy I am all ears. I would like to keep it under 1500.00 bucks since I have seen so much stuff out there fairly cheap like complete lowers for under 300.00 bucks and so on so please educate me on this because I am the grasshopper when it comes to buying and building these weapons.......
Thanks Fly

[lamrith]

Welcome to the dark side...

Grendel like all calibers you can go cheap or high dollar.  The good thing is the "cheap" stuff is not always bad and Grendel is getting much more popular.  I went with a Brownells 18" barrel and love it.  $300ish WITH matched bolt.  123G amax it shoots sub MOD all day long.  Other guys will spend $600 on just barrel.  The nice thing about grendel is that other than magazines, bolt and barrel it uses all stock AR15 parts.  SO honestly, if you already have an AR, just build an upper.  I put a Primary arms 4-14 FFP scope on it and the pairing works very very well.  Everything else is generic low budget AR parts.  ALG Defense Combat trigger and Troy Alpha rail are only upgraded items.

Check out www.65grendel.com for tons of info.

The great thing about Grendel is you have a big game capable round (6.5 been taking large game for centuries, just be smart about distance/velocities for terminal bullet performance), with fantastic ballistics (drop similar to a 308) and very low recoil so pretty much anyone can shoot it all day long with no fatigue.

[Superfly]

Thanks so Much, I have several AR's and am looking to up the ante before the new regime takes office and trys to take everything...........
Anyways I have always been very curious of some of the very low recoil, very accurate Deer size calibers that alot of people have put alot of faith and stock in and also are alot cheaper to shoot tons of ammo through so that you can become very proficient at long range with a weapon that wont kick your face off................
After I do this one I will be doing a creedmore which I know is on the large frame like the 762 and everything there is so much different because there is no mil spec............

thanks for the ideas and help .......... Fly

[Blacklab]

Love my Grendel 

[fly-by]

Welcome to the dark side...

Grendel like all calibers you can go cheap or high dollar.  The good thing is the "cheap" stuff is not always bad and Grendel is getting much more popular.  I went with a Brownells 18" barrel and love it.  $300ish WITH matched bolt.  123G amax it shoots sub MOD all day long.  Other guys will spend $600 on just barrel.  The nice thing about grendel is that other than magazines, bolt and barrel it uses all stock AR15 parts.  SO honestly, if you already have an AR, just build an upper.  I put a Primary arms 4-14 FFP scope on it and the pairing works very very well.  Everything else is generic low budget AR parts.  ALG Defense Combat trigger and Troy Alpha rail are only upgraded items.

Check out www.65grendel.com for tons of info.

The great thing about Grendel is you have a big game capable round (6.5 been taking large game for centuries, just be smart about distance/velocities for terminal bullet performance), with fantastic ballistics (drop similar to a 308) and very low recoil so pretty much anyone can shoot it all day long with no fatigue.

That's a great build, especially given the deal on the barrel.  Those PA scopes are a good value too.

[Taco280AI]

Might want to look at BCM uppers. Got one for a 5.56 and with a 1-4x I'm getting 5-shot .75" @ 100 and hitting the steel coyote at 430 every time.

[doubletall]

Are you still looking for a Grendel?

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