I was looking at a Wilson Combat ad in Rifle shooter magazine ! It promotes the useless 300HAM’R cartridge in the AR-15 ! The 6.5 GRENDEL is way Superior in every Respect ! WHY ? would any one want one ? 
JMO RJ
JMO RJ
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I was looking at a Wilson Combat ad in Rifle shooter magazine ! It promotes the useless 300HAM’R cartridge in the AR-15 ! The 6.5 GRENDEL is way Superior in every Respect ! WHY ? would any one want one ?
Short answer it uses a standard 5.56 boltface and more commonly available bullets for reloading.
Well you’re right about bolt face BUT completely WRONG ! about the bullets
and it’s so FAR behind ballistically why would any one want one ? But you are entitled to your opinion. . RJ
EVEN more Useless is the 300 aac cartridge . �� RJ
EVEN more Useless is the 300 aac cartridge .RJ
aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh that's 300 AAC BLK for you
you take that back or I will not read your posts any more
Thanks for starting a thread about my current fave cartridge Jim!
I imported the 16" Stainless Ruger American barrel from Wilson combat through Prophet River. All in it was well under 500$ canadian and is the most consistently accurate barrel I have ever owned from any maker custom or otherwise.
The barrel switches often between my Tikka (same thread pitch as Ruger) and RAR.
Free range pick-up brass easy peasy to convert. 85gr Campros are printing three holes touching at 50yds subsonic with 3.8gr of Bullseye and a Ginex small rifle primer (1040 fps) and .75" at 100yds with 20grs of H110 for 2700 fps supersonic.
I churn out 100rds in no time on my Hornady progressive press.
Did I mention those Cam pro 85gr Tok bullets are 50 bucks for a bag of 500?
Are you still with me? ...here's where things get interesting. If you mess with the HAMR in bolt action rifle with a generous magazine and can load long you unlock extra velocity and are able to run longer bullets than the the AR's working within the confines of a STANAG mag. The Barnes 120gr TAC in the photos are going 2650fps and are will work great for me out to 300yds plus for any deer size animal around these parts. I also have a load worked-up with 120gr Nosler BT's going 2700 fps, my son takes his buck every year the last five years with this bullet in a reduced load 30-06 and it flattens big bucks!
I am so enamored with the 300 HAMR that I currently have a 14" pre-fit barrel on it's way from preferred barrels stateside that will be screwed-on to the Howa Mini pictured below. The Jefferson floorplate has a generous magazine and holds six down.
I imported the 16" Stainless Ruger American barrel from Wilson combat through Prophet River. All in it was well under 500$ canadian and is the most consistently accurate barrel I have ever owned from any maker custom or otherwise.
The barrel switches often between my Tikka (same thread pitch as Ruger) and RAR.
Free range pick-up brass easy peasy to convert. 85gr Campros are printing three holes touching at 50yds subsonic with 3.8gr of Bullseye and a Ginex small rifle primer (1040 fps) and .75" at 100yds with 20grs of H110 for 2700 fps supersonic.
I churn out 100rds in no time on my Hornady progressive press.
Did I mention those Cam pro 85gr Tok bullets are 50 bucks for a bag of 500?
Are you still with me? ...here's where things get interesting. If you mess with the HAMR in bolt action rifle with a generous magazine and can load long you unlock extra velocity and are able to run longer bullets than the the AR's working within the confines of a STANAG mag. The Barnes 120gr TAC in the photos are going 2650fps and are will work great for me out to 300yds plus for any deer size animal around these parts. I also have a load worked-up with 120gr Nosler BT's going 2700 fps, my son takes his buck every year the last five years with this bullet in a reduced load 30-06 and it flattens big bucks!
I am so enamored with the 300 HAMR that I currently have a 14" pre-fit barrel on it's way from preferred barrels stateside that will be screwed-on to the Howa Mini pictured below. The Jefferson floorplate has a generous magazine and holds six down.
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No flies on the Grendel, they are respectable and capable. I had a couple but they never hung around long. Expensive boutique brass, expensive bullets in a finicky weight range that were often hard to source and janky feeding due to that sharp angled shoulder. the 300 HAMR also gives me 6 down in my Howa and Ruger flush-fit mags vs 4 if we're talking grendel or any 7.62X39 based cartridge.
I like to shoot hundreds to thousands of rounds per year out of the rifles that I am going to carry hunting or varminting and that means centerfires have to be cheep components and easy to source.
I like to shoot hundreds to thousands of rounds per year out of the rifles that I am going to carry hunting or varminting and that means centerfires have to be cheep components and easy to source.
Lol Rave on Boys ! . RJ
Rave on Boys ! . RJ
Well you’re right about bolt face BUT completely WRONG ! about the bullets
30 cal bullets are hard to find jim? - dan
Thanks for starting a thread about my current fave cartridge Jim!
I imported the 16" Stainless Ruger American barrel from Wilson combat through Prophet River. All in it was well under 500$ canadian and is the most consistently accurate barrel I have ever owned from any maker custom or otherwise.
The barrel switches often between my Tikka (same thread pitch as Ruger) and RAR.
Free range pick-up brass easy peasy to convert. 85gr Campros are printing three holes touching at 50yds subsonic with 3.8gr of Bullseye and a Ginex small rifle primer (1040 fps) and .75" at 100yds with 20grs of H110 for 2700 fps supersonic.
I churn out 100rds in no time on my Hornady progressive press.
Did I mention those Cam pro 85gr Tok bullets are 50 bucks for a bag of 500?
Are you still with me? ...here's where things get interesting. If you mess with the HAMR in bolt action rifle with a generous magazine and can load long you unlock extra velocity and are able to run longer bullets than the the AR's working within the confines of a STANAG mag. The Barnes 120gr TAC in the photos are going 2650fps and are will work great for me out to 300yds plus for any deer size animal around these parts. I also have a load worked-up with 120gr Nosler BT's going 2700 fps, my son takes his buck every year the last five years with this bullet in a reduced load 30-06 and it flattens big bucks!
I am so enamored with the 300 HAMR that I currently have a 14" pre-fit barrel on it's way from preferred barrels stateside that will be screwed-on to the Howa Mini pictured below. The Jefferson floorplate has a generous magazine and holds six down.
Really neat little rifles!!
In the Good Ol' Days-
We have the 300 Whisper to push 240gr'ers subsonic & suppressed.
We have the 300 AAC Black Out by design to push 110-240gr'ers sub or super & suppressed.
We have the 300 HAM'R w/ a slow twist to push 110-150gr'ers sub or super & suppressed.
IF,one is limited to lever platforms(or Bolt-Model 325 Savage) shoot the 30-30 Winchester.
IF, one is NOT limited by the platform, shoot the first 3 aforementioned....I reload/shoot all 4 calibers mentioned.
We have the 300 Whisper to push 240gr'ers subsonic & suppressed.
We have the 300 AAC Black Out by design to push 110-240gr'ers sub or super & suppressed.
We have the 300 HAM'R w/ a slow twist to push 110-150gr'ers sub or super & suppressed.
IF,one is limited to lever platforms(or Bolt-Model 325 Savage) shoot the 30-30 Winchester.
IF, one is NOT limited by the platform, shoot the first 3 aforementioned....I reload/shoot all 4 calibers mentioned.
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