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The 6.5 grendel is an anemic hunting cartridge at best. Why carry around a 10 pound AR platform shooting a less-than-stellar cartridge when you can carry a field-ready bolt action weighing under 7 1/2 pounds that's chambered in something requires far less ballistic guesswork and hits with a lot more authority?
I'd buy a 270 and be done with it. Shoots flat, hits plenty hard, you can find it ANYWHERE. Comes in nice, light, rifles.
Not a Grendel fanboy here and actually don't even own one but technically speaking they are built on a ar15 platform and you would have to put a big arse scope on one to approach 10#. Just sayin.
What you say is true, but it comes at a cost with increased rifle weight, higher cost of ammo (not too much) and more recoil. I've only shot one 300 Win Mag and I didn't notice the recoil, but many people really aren't comfortable with the recoil of an '06 and the 300 is just too much.25 years now with 300 win mag.
It will do as little as your 308. As much as your 30.06.
And then give you another couple hundred FPS if you know how to reach out there.
yes. my AR 308 hunting rifle with 30mm tube scope has a B5 stock on itEver met someone who hunts with an AR who doesnt but a big 30mm tube scope, free floating handguards and some Magpul Multi compartment stock on the back?
with current powder technology, i can load my 308win to factory 30-06 performanceThis is why I have never really wanted, or felt a need for the 7 mm mag and sold my .300, for the cost increase and recoil over the .30/06. the differences are so small, that it's really not worth the effort. Now don't get me wrong, the advantages that make the 7 mm so good are worth it for the few instances where it would out shine the .30/06 but those are rare, and my hunting has thus far never required that performance. Now the .300 w.m. fell between the .30/06 and the .338 W.M and for the cost and recoil as well as a need for more then the .30/06, I find the .338 just works better, especially as the recoil isn't much more then the old .30/06!
with current powder technology, i can load my 308win to factory 30-06 performance
correct. ive only ever ran 150,165 and 168 in 308 win and 30-06 personally.Until the bullet hits 180gr or heavier. But with 150, 165 and 168gr bullets, they are twins. It's obvious that the 308 is still accurate with the heavier bullets, it just can't push them as fast as the '06.
For a fast 180gr 30-06 load, I don't think you can beat RL22.Not quite, the same advances in powder can take the same ( .30/06) bullets faster across the board, and like posted above once you get above 180, it really smokes the .308! How much faster depends on the rifle as much as the loads!