Well the Grendel shot great. The head space issue is over as far as I'm concerned. Talked to reloaders on the range today and most of them head space on their brass, they say that way they know it is spaced right for their cases in that particular rifle. I'm thinking the gauges may be on the large side as the Grendel was intended to be used in an AR, just an assumption. Cases extracted perfectly and no signs of pressure or ?, primers showed no signs of pressure either.

After bore sighting at this target at 50yds the very first shot was low and to the left in the black that you can see. I then followed the bullet hole back to the center of the bulls eye as best I could and set out to see if she would group ... what you see is a 3 shot group that measures .185 according to my calipers, I'm stoked.

Ammo was factory Hornady A-Max 123 gr fodder. No scrubbing of the bore or anything was done, I did run a patch before shooting through it just to get out any particles, or ? that might have been in the bore after manufacture.

The stock was Boyd s Tacticool that I just tightened down in steps but did not use a torque screwdriver, the screws are down hand tight using a small Brownell's handle of their gunsmithing screw driver set.

Scope is a Primary Arms 4x14 FFP

Barrel is a 28 " Douglas 7W contour, 1/8 twist McGowen.

Velocity average was ~2585

Going to another range tomorrow to go after a gong or two.


wll