6.5 Grendel barrel recommendations

[Campt413]

I'm wanting to build a light weight 6.5 Grendel for deer hunting. I have my scope picked out (luepold vx-6hd) and pretty much the rest of the gun, but I was wanting to know what y'all recommend as far as barrels go. I'm looking for 18"-20".

Thanks in advance

 

[Jsp556]

ARP for anything less than Krieger, Satern, or any other Cut rifled custom barrel.

20" 6.5 Grendel - Hi-perf 3R rifling

ar15performance.com

 

[blackblue]

Happy with my 20" ar15performance. Running a VX6 on it also. https://ar15performance.com/inc/sdetail/38016/41933

 

[bobke]

A Wilson Combat 20” I picked up earlier in year is proving quite accurate and they were on sale this weekend at very good price point.

 

[hlee]

JP

 

[Mwalex]

Lilja

 

[Jsp556]

Smashed him with an 18” ARP barreled Grendel

 

[bobke]

Nice. What load did you use?

 

[jasewhitehead08]

give TBOX barrels a look. They put out an outstanding product.

 

[hoop12]

+1 for ARP. My Grendel has an 18” ARP barrel and I love it. Great shooter

 

[Jsp556]

Nice. What load did you use?

Hornady Black 123 gr eld. About 180 yard shot quartering away. Bullet entered on the left at about the 3rd rib and exited through the right shoulder. He made it about 25 yards and crashed.

 

[Sniperwannabee]

A Wilson Combat 20” I picked up earlier in year is proving quite accurate and they were on sale this weekend at very good price point.

x2

 

[L-Ray]

I bought a 18" Wilson Combat for my build. Aero Enchanced upper and 15" hand guard.

 

[CaptNemo]

Look at the Liberty Barrels as well, they are button rifled Saten barrels.

 

[kingzero]

I had Craddock Precision spin me a 16" Grendel barrel on a Criterion blank. It's proven extremely accurate with factory Hornady ammo.

 

[Campt413]

Well I ended up buying a Wilson combat 20" Fluted hunter barrel on sale for my build. Some of the other recommendations were alittle higher than my budget allows right now.

I'm very impressed with the barrel so far. Having the gas block dimple is nice and everything else looks great.

 

[YotaEer]

I recently built a new upper based around a 16” Wilson combat barrel. Excited to try it out

 

[Greg Langelius *]

I have a pair of AR Stoner Uppers. One is a factory built 20", the other is a 24" homebuilt using AR Stoner parts.

The barrels are from AR Stoner stock, a Midway in-house brand name. Various builders are suspected; one was Bear Creek. Some credible suggestions are Liberty, a button rifled division of Satern.

Once set up and being prepared of first outing, both the 20" and the 24" were borescoped using the Teslong unit. No obvious blemishes were noted.

Load testing is in progress, and a barrel contact issue was found and fixed for the 24". Too early to cite group diameters, but it looks like Sub-MOA is a real possibility. How much "Sub-MOA" will turn out to be is still undetermined.

Loads are being tested with the Speer 90gr TNT, Hornady 95gr V-Max, and Speer 120gr Gold Dot; with W748 for the propellant, Starline Brass, and CCI/Win Primers.

Greg

 

[SD Carpenter]

I run an Odin works, more then happy with it.