Second 6.5 grendel build is officially on! 28" ELR build

[mel80]

2000 mr--one of my favorites, great for 224 valkyrie as well (surprised you haven't dabbled in one of those yet).

im toying with ideas for a bolt rifle

6.5 cm 6.5-06 nexto a 30-06

i have a ton of 30-06 brass and also 300 weatherby mag i can convert to 6.5-06 or 6.5-300wm im leaning twards building a 6.5-300wm bolt gun over the 6.5-06 though i just didnt have the dies to convert the weatherby brass on hand atm

 

[mel80]

got to finally test those lehigh defense 110 solids , first 5 loaded at 29g of ppv went 2730 fps , second 5 at 29.3 went 2710 , left side of target is the 29.3 group , on shot#4 my dot fell off and i lost my point of aim for shot #5 . lil stumped on the speed loss but im going to load more of the same 2 charges and see if my results match up , that 29.3 group is money though

 

[mel80]

mag primer testing

i need to continue working up im basing my loads of lehighs data which lists a max charge of 29g of tac , well i know from all my other load data that ppv runs about 1-1.5g more for max on average over tac , unfortunatly i think im done doing any more testing till i get back from vacation in February, i still got to much crap to do before i leave this week i dont think ill have time to do any more shooting


my gut feeling is telline me i should see damn near 2900fps out of the 28inch gren with theese if lehighs data is correct sine they claim 25xx out of a 16 inch barrel with tac

 

[mel80]

200y factory hornday black eld-m ammo with multiple shooters from 1st timers to experianced shooters .

 

[stagpanther]

Nice! I see you have your ABL unit behind the main "lens" as opposed to in front of it.

 

[mel80]

i do dont wanna break the scope , on the hd 2 i have it mounted on the front u can see the adapter on the scope i just dont have the abl mounted to it since i have hat scope on my lil 10.5 pistol build and theres no need for it

lol got tierd of sharing abl's between 2 scopes so now i have 2x abl 1500's and the handheld 1500 lrf