Thread: The grendal. Is it dying?

If Sako were to bring out a variant in their extra small (223) sized carbonlite its place would be cemented.

The whole thing of the grendel is to be in a short light rifle. If you use a 308 size action then you're so much better off with a 260Rem.

The main drawback is the low velocity making it marginal to get bullet expansion . Again, a 24" barrel is flattering but the forte of this cartridge is the 16 incher.. so there is probably a bit more specialized bullet development to be done by the manufacturers I think.

The American market will no doubt drive factory ammo supply. Have a look at the 65grendel forum and make your own call.

Like Matthias, I reload and have a good supply of brass so am sweet for the life of this barrel. But I didnt commit to it till I saw factory ammo on the shelves. I've used hornady SST and had a feeling it wasn't expanding well enough. I've tried a few rounds of the black box ELD-M which is supposed to be for target use but is seemed to expand well. Made a hole about 2/3 of what the 7mm08 does.

The other thing to take into account is trajectory , which is more loopy than most are used to. It means you need to use a rangefinder if you want to shoot past 100-150m compared to 150-200m for a 308 class cartridge.

It's not a good cartridge for "youth" . You need a good average level of stalking and shooting ability .