SUBSONIC 6.5 GRENDEL FULL

I really like shooting the Hornaday a123 BTHP for plinking, target shooting. I also ended up with 6.5 Grendel with a 16” barrel and built a lightweight deer rifle. I have also been able to use H110 on some pistol loads and I think on M1 Carbine (I can’t remember at the moment). I spend a while only doing H110 before I switched up, but those two seemed to be what I saw the most. I have only used H110 and A1680 on the 300 Blk so far. I’ve been playing with 125 FMJ for plinking and settled on 125 SST for hunting along with the 120 TTSX. (Subsonic hunting can be done, but lots of things can be done that I can’t do well). I started out wanting to shoot subsonic for hunting but lots of advice I got was to stick to about 110/120 grain and use the Barnes TTSX. In all seriousness, I’m going to keep the short 9” barrel and kept it suppressed, and probably get rid of the other two longer ones (10.5 and 16). Then later while contemplating getting rid of the two barrels, I got an even shorter barrel. So I went to get rid of mine, and then bought a short barrel. (It’s not a bad hunting cartridge, just not as good as it was sold to me as). I was going to get rid of it after seeing that it wasn’t the best hunting cartridge. Started with 300 blk for a cheap entry into hunting. Very serious short range medicine but with the respective Special loadings velocities remain in the 900 fps range making for quite and pleasant plinking. Depending on th4e load that velocity gain can be as much as 400 fps though 300-350 is more the norm, but a 158 grain 357 load will typically clock ~1700 fps and a 240 grain 44 Magnum load will clock in the same 1700 fps range.

SUBSONIC 6.5 GRENDEL FULL

But alas these days I don't have a place to hunt so any meed I have for a mid power deer cartridge remains satisfied with 357 or 44 lever guns and a trusty 30-30, which brings me to this point, if you have an AR in 223 and a 308 bolt gun, why not a lever gun to play with? Pistol caliber lever guns are fun, cheap and with full power ammo (shooting 357 Magnum ammunition rather than 38 Special for example) there is a significant gain in performance because of the exposure to the gas pressure curve because of the longer barrel. The attractive part to it or the 7x wildcat is performance between 223/556 and 308. I was thinking a bit today about a 7x39 wildcat but then thought why not go with 6.5 as the performance would be similar enough and no need to make brass up and no need to shell out extra money for dies.

Subsonic 6.5 grendel