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Up for grabs is a brand NEW, NEVER FIRED complete 16" 6.5 Grendel rifle complete with match grade 1:9 barrel. Asking $760 local (NVA); or $790 shipped to your FFL. Willing to sell the complete upper for $650 local; $670 shipped. Only willing to sell so long as the item I'm looking to buy is for sale. If that ends, this ends.
I have it listed locally on Armslist and on Gunbroker. Check Gunbroker for prices on these. Lowest one they have is a strip down Olympic Arms for $750+ shipping. Go stainless, throw on a decent free-float rail, nice muzzle device, and anything other than a milspec collapsible stock, and you've far exceeded the $1200 mark (pushing $2k).
The 6.5 bullet is a real gem--bucks wind, flies straight, and this round from this barrel has a maximum point blank range of right around 250 yards. It is an inherently accurate round, and although I cannot personally attest to how THIS gun shoots, Radical Arms match barrels are capable of some good shooting. The pic at the end is a photo one of the guys at the shop sent when I asked about their match barrel accuracy--it's a 5 shot group from a 223 with match-grade 77gr ammo fired from 100 yards that are all more or less in one ragged hole. Given that the looooong 6.5 bullet is so much nicer shooting than the anemic 223, I gotta believe that this 6.5 is capable of similar results. The Hornady 123 gr SSTs or AMAX (similar in the way they fly) should be amazing. Now that Bill Alexander has released the name and the round is SAAMI spec-ed, watch for prices to keep dropping. Wolf sells soft point Gold 200 rnd packs for about $120-150; PPU has ammo at Palmetto State for $13 a box; and the Hornady rounds can be had for $19 a box or better--just like any other decent hunting round. Wolf is or has released cheap steel cased ammo too. About $0.30/round for plinking at the range without breaking the bank--right around the price of a box of 7.62! It's even beginning to show up occasionally at the local sporting goods store along side the 300 BLK and 6.8 SPC
If you want a GREAT hunting AR, hard to do better than this one with the 16" barrel--compact, light weight, accurate, and maneuverable. Hornady's factory SST loads have you right close to 1000 ft-lbs at 300 yards with a 16" barrel. Drops to 831 ft-lbs at 400 yards, so you are really looking at an effective deer/hog rifle out to about 350 yards with an AR. People whack Caribou and Elk with this round, although I'd suspect you'd not want to push those shots out too far--not sure what the minimum recommended energy is for elk. Hornady's factory load has only 8.7" of drop at 300 with a 200 zero. Load it up with 103 gr bullets and shoot coyotes out another couple hundred if you want, I suspect.
Plenty of ballistics charts, trajectory graphs, and all other sorts of scientific hoopla to demonstrate the unspeakable awesomeness of this round. This was designed as a hunting round with military characteristics and it really does fall smack-dab between the 223 and 308, doing a better job than either round in almost every situation. The 6.5 uses standard 10 rd Magpul mags or modified 25 rd 223 magazines set up for either 6.5 or 6.8 (both cycle just fine in the 6.5).
C'mon! Pull the trigger
Prefer DISCRETE Paypal since I'm dealing with time constraints (Paypal will cancel both our accounts if they believe it's a gun); I'll eat the fees if you prefer to not send feeles (just let me send an invoice). I am also willing to accept PMO (USPS only; must clear before I ship).
Must be at least 21 and living in a free state. Your FFL needs to take shipment from an individual and I will need a copy of their license. First unequivocal "I'll take it" followed by a PM or email gets it. Please keep all questions, comments, offers, or jokes private. Thanks for looking!
Radical Arms (They make a mean weapon)
16" Stainless Steel Match Grade Barrel 1:9 Twist
Low-Pro Gas Block
12" Free Float Hybrid Rail
Custom Stainless Pepper Pot Break
M4 Forged Upper receiver
Mil Spec Bolt Carrier group
Standard Charging handle
Luth-AR Modular: MBA-2 Skeleton Stock (set on a fixed A2 buffer tube; Luthar sells adjustable cheek and butt stock kits if you want to trick it out further--perfect length of pull for me as is, so I didn't bother)
Forged Lower
Crisp single stage trigger with no creep; breaks clean at about 5 lbs
Added an angled foregrip for your using pleasure--comfortable, but the screw's a bit long (nothing 2 minutes with a dremmel can't fix).
I have it listed locally on Armslist and on Gunbroker. Check Gunbroker for prices on these. Lowest one they have is a strip down Olympic Arms for $750+ shipping. Go stainless, throw on a decent free-float rail, nice muzzle device, and anything other than a milspec collapsible stock, and you've far exceeded the $1200 mark (pushing $2k).
The 6.5 bullet is a real gem--bucks wind, flies straight, and this round from this barrel has a maximum point blank range of right around 250 yards. It is an inherently accurate round, and although I cannot personally attest to how THIS gun shoots, Radical Arms match barrels are capable of some good shooting. The pic at the end is a photo one of the guys at the shop sent when I asked about their match barrel accuracy--it's a 5 shot group from a 223 with match-grade 77gr ammo fired from 100 yards that are all more or less in one ragged hole. Given that the looooong 6.5 bullet is so much nicer shooting than the anemic 223, I gotta believe that this 6.5 is capable of similar results. The Hornady 123 gr SSTs or AMAX (similar in the way they fly) should be amazing. Now that Bill Alexander has released the name and the round is SAAMI spec-ed, watch for prices to keep dropping. Wolf sells soft point Gold 200 rnd packs for about $120-150; PPU has ammo at Palmetto State for $13 a box; and the Hornady rounds can be had for $19 a box or better--just like any other decent hunting round. Wolf is or has released cheap steel cased ammo too. About $0.30/round for plinking at the range without breaking the bank--right around the price of a box of 7.62! It's even beginning to show up occasionally at the local sporting goods store along side the 300 BLK and 6.8 SPC
If you want a GREAT hunting AR, hard to do better than this one with the 16" barrel--compact, light weight, accurate, and maneuverable. Hornady's factory SST loads have you right close to 1000 ft-lbs at 300 yards with a 16" barrel. Drops to 831 ft-lbs at 400 yards, so you are really looking at an effective deer/hog rifle out to about 350 yards with an AR. People whack Caribou and Elk with this round, although I'd suspect you'd not want to push those shots out too far--not sure what the minimum recommended energy is for elk. Hornady's factory load has only 8.7" of drop at 300 with a 200 zero. Load it up with 103 gr bullets and shoot coyotes out another couple hundred if you want, I suspect.
Plenty of ballistics charts, trajectory graphs, and all other sorts of scientific hoopla to demonstrate the unspeakable awesomeness of this round. This was designed as a hunting round with military characteristics and it really does fall smack-dab between the 223 and 308, doing a better job than either round in almost every situation. The 6.5 uses standard 10 rd Magpul mags or modified 25 rd 223 magazines set up for either 6.5 or 6.8 (both cycle just fine in the 6.5).
C'mon! Pull the trigger
Prefer DISCRETE Paypal since I'm dealing with time constraints (Paypal will cancel both our accounts if they believe it's a gun); I'll eat the fees if you prefer to not send feeles (just let me send an invoice). I am also willing to accept PMO (USPS only; must clear before I ship).
Must be at least 21 and living in a free state. Your FFL needs to take shipment from an individual and I will need a copy of their license. First unequivocal "I'll take it" followed by a PM or email gets it. Please keep all questions, comments, offers, or jokes private. Thanks for looking!
Radical Arms (They make a mean weapon)
16" Stainless Steel Match Grade Barrel 1:9 Twist
Low-Pro Gas Block
12" Free Float Hybrid Rail
Custom Stainless Pepper Pot Break
M4 Forged Upper receiver
Mil Spec Bolt Carrier group
Standard Charging handle
Luth-AR Modular: MBA-2 Skeleton Stock (set on a fixed A2 buffer tube; Luthar sells adjustable cheek and butt stock kits if you want to trick it out further--perfect length of pull for me as is, so I didn't bother)
Forged Lower
Crisp single stage trigger with no creep; breaks clean at about 5 lbs
Added an angled foregrip for your using pleasure--comfortable, but the screw's a bit long (nothing 2 minutes with a dremmel can't fix).
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