Tl;dr: I am not an AR guy but want to build a light 6.5 Grendel and need help picking a barrel
Long story:
I do gun runs and PRS. I’m not great at either, usually middle of the pack. I shoot matches because I enjoy them, not because I’m chasing first place.
I’ve gotten myself in an annoying place. Gun run coming up? Gonna shoot my Tavor a bunch. Then PRS or a DMR match is coming, time to switch to my TRG.
I feel like I’m always jumping around and never mastering my rifle. Years ago when I was just shooting a bolt rifle, I felt like I handled unknown distance and ranging a lot better than I do now.
What I want to do is build the lightest functional 6.5 Grendel AR that can do both match styles ok-ish. That way I can just shoot one rifle the whole damn year.
My problem is that I don’t know ARs. Who makes decent barrels and what profile should I use? I don’t want to go so light that it can’t handle a 10-20 round stage. But I don’t want the rifle to be over 10lbs. And in reality it’s usually awhile between rifle stages so it will have some time to cool down.
*edit* Price is somewhat of a factor. I would love to run a carbon fiber barrel but dropping $800 for a barrel alone is too much when I also need glass and all upper parts. I’d like to be around $1k or less for the whole upper (before scope). With savings on the upper used towards the glass.
Long story:
I do gun runs and PRS. I’m not great at either, usually middle of the pack. I shoot matches because I enjoy them, not because I’m chasing first place.
I’ve gotten myself in an annoying place. Gun run coming up? Gonna shoot my Tavor a bunch. Then PRS or a DMR match is coming, time to switch to my TRG.
I feel like I’m always jumping around and never mastering my rifle. Years ago when I was just shooting a bolt rifle, I felt like I handled unknown distance and ranging a lot better than I do now.
What I want to do is build the lightest functional 6.5 Grendel AR that can do both match styles ok-ish. That way I can just shoot one rifle the whole damn year.
My problem is that I don’t know ARs. Who makes decent barrels and what profile should I use? I don’t want to go so light that it can’t handle a 10-20 round stage. But I don’t want the rifle to be over 10lbs. And in reality it’s usually awhile between rifle stages so it will have some time to cool down.
*edit* Price is somewhat of a factor. I would love to run a carbon fiber barrel but dropping $800 for a barrel alone is too much when I also need glass and all upper parts. I’d like to be around $1k or less for the whole upper (before scope). With savings on the upper used towards the glass.
