{"id":126,"date":"2014-05-31T09:28:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T16:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/?p=126"},"modified":"2014-05-31T09:38:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T16:38:45","slug":"pair-of-grendels-at-the-range-good-news-and-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Pair of Grendels at the Range: Good News and Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took a 2 hour drive to go to my rifle range which really is just the closest BLM land you can shoot solid projectiles on. \u00a0Shot a few of my builds. \u00a0I really like to shoot my rifle builds and I\u00a0do it pretty infrequently. \u00a0 This time around I took a good\u00a0number of rifles that I have never fired before. \u00a0I want to mention the tale of the two grendels I brought out. \u00a0I built the Grendel pistol just recently from a Liberty 7.5″\u00a0barrel from Satern Machine. \u00a0Before that I built a Model 1 Sales kit\u00a0with an 18″ fluted barrel. To be honest from the quality of the parts I expected issues with the rifle build and hoped the pistol could just require some fine tuning of spring weights.<\/p>\n

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My\u00a0two Grendels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I started with the pistol. \u00a0I brought 200 rd of Hornady SST ammo for this trip. \u00a0I usual put 2 rounds in a gun the first time just to see what it does and it was perfect. \u00a0Ejected nicely dropping the brass up to 10 feet to my 2 o’ clock \u00a0position. No signs of bulged cases. \u00a0All looked great. \u00a0It then devoured the first 10 round mag with no issues shooting offhand at as 100yd 8″ steel plate. \u00a0I wasn’t trying to be a marksman but I did hit the plate a few times. \u00a0I found the Magnifier I had on it to be a pain with the eye relief and very narrow “Sweet Spot” my eye had to be to see through it well. \u00a0Just went to the red dot only and the second mag waspure heaven. \u00a0At this point I was thinking to myself this is the greatest weapon I have ever built. \u00a0Short and Handy, \u00a0easy to aim, packs a punch and has light recoil. \u00a0Thanks the the krinkov flash hider the muzzle blast was very mild as well, far less then an AK pistol I had shot before.<\/p>\n

Mag 3 had a full battery lock, fail to extract. \u00a0After some serious tugging I got the bolt back and the shell popped out. \u00a0No obvious deformations on the case. \u00a0 Got another right after that. \u00a0At that piont I field stripped the pistol and lubed it up nice and wet. \u00a0Tried a few more, but they all failed to extract. \u00a0\ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

So I went to the Grendel Rifle. \u00a0Model 1 sales calls these “6.5 Sporter” and that is what it says on the barrel. \u00a0These have a mixed reputation on the forums, some pretty bad. \u00a0I expected this guy to have issues. \u00a0But it did exactly what it was supposed to do, go bang every time! \u00a0The Leupold scope was near dead on and I nailed the 8″ plate every time I tried. \u00a0It was fun in rapid fire, but had a bit more reciol than a 5.56 in quick shots. \u00a0The only thing I didn’t like about my setup was the cheesy plastic magwell grip was interfering with reloading my puny 10rd mags and the muzzle break loosened. \u00a0Still a thoroughly fun rifle that seems pretty darn accurate!<\/p>\n

Now I need to take a good look at the pistol and try to figure out what the issue is. \u00a0I was reading that on some Grendel barrels the throat may not be long enough causing the brass to hit the rifling. \u00a0Or is could be something as simple as the gas block\u00a0moved.<\/p>\n

Last thing I\u00a0wanted to mention was I was shooting at an Action Target ar550 steel plate. \u00a0In the past 5.56 \u00a0is a small smudge and .308 have left nice fat marks on it, but the grendel actually made small craters. \u00a0In the future I will not use steel targets for these guys. \u00a0Besides, I really mangled my targets legs when trying to shoot quickly. \u00a0I should grab a pic of some of the damage.<\/p>\n

None the less, the 6.5 Grendel in the AR package seems like the coolest\u00a0option out there.<\/p>\n

-Rob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took a 2 hour drive to go to my rifle range which really is just the closest BLM land you can shoot solid projectiles on. \u00a0Shot a few of my builds. \u00a0I really like to shoot my rifle builds and I\u00a0do it pretty infrequently. \u00a0 This time around I took a good\u00a0number of rifles that I have never fired before. \u00a0I want to mention the tale of the two grendels I brought out. \u00a0I built the Grendel pistol just recently from a Liberty 7.5″\u00a0barrel from Satern Machine. \u00a0Before that I built a Model 1 Sales kit\u00a0with an 18″ fluted barrel. To be honest from the quality of the parts I expected issues with the rifle build and hoped the pistol could just require some fine tuning of spring weights. I started with the pistol. \u00a0I brought 200 rd of Hornady SST ammo for this trip. \u00a0I usual put 2 rounds in a gun the first time just to see what it does and it was perfect. \u00a0Ejected nicely dropping the brass up to 10 feet to my 2 o’ clock \u00a0position. No signs of bulged cases. \u00a0All looked great. \u00a0It then devoured the first 10 round mag with no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}