6.8 spc

theres there is more than a hand full of reamers out there that will shoot the grendal round the 6.5 green doll is one. not to take away from alexander armsas he is the one to bring the round to market but he didnt do anything that wildcaters have been doing since day one. he took a wildcat (6mm PPC) of a wild cat (220 russan) and wilded cated it by blowing the shoulder forward and expanding the neck. there were already 6.5mm PPC and variants out there. He did a lot with the round but also killed it by trying to hold onto the rights to be the only one to make the chamber. The easy way to go around that is do exactly what he did Wildcat his wildcat. add a thou to the length change the neck dia slightly or the neck angle a degree and order a reamer. There are nemerious improved versions of the grendal out there.

If i want a 6.5mm rifle tht does every thing that the grendal does but better on a AK plate form ill just build a 260 remington, OH WAIT I ALREADY AM. If I want to buid a close version to a 6.8 spc that will far excede it ill just build a 7mm-08 OH WAIT I ALREADY AM. its pretty simple to get a 308 length round into a standard AK reciver why keep trying to get more from a small round when a bigger better cheaper version will work. the grendal and 6.8spc both run higher pressures than the 7.62x39 BTW. Your going to haave to mod a reciver and do custom stuff might as well just make it take a 308win length round while your at it. grendal and spc ammo is not cheap so your going to want to reload any way to feed it might as well just reduce loads slightly on a 22-250,243,260, 7mm-08, 308, 338-08, 358-08, etc to get what you want and use cheaper avaliable brass. oh yea there is a 6.8-308 / 270-308 wild cat out there as well nobody really uses it much because the 6.5mm and 7mm bullets are better and more choices.

IMOO the only real advantage the 6.8 SPC or the grendal have over the rounds I mentioned is that they will fit in a AR mag. Carry weight is less but so what Im not taking any thing I build into battel and likely is 99.9% of the readers here. there is nothing a 6.5 grendal can do performanmce wise that a 260 remington cant do better. there is noting a 6.8 can do that a 7mm-08 cant do better. I see no reason the be restricted to AR limitations in a AK that dosent have to have them.

Id like to have a 6.5 grendal in a AK and the 6.8 is not a bad round I just feel the grendal is better. the gains that the 6.8 have at close range arnt treally going to make much of a differance n the real world as your dead or wonded both ways but at 450 yardsthe 6.5 will have a much larger advantage and even more so a 600. i dont know much about war and combate but I do know that if I could see the enemy id like to be able to shoot at them. and the grendal has the advantage. Im a hunter to i want the extra horse power of a longer round and i dont care what the weight differance is. I car how much it costs to shoot and reload and how accurate it is.