Originally Posted By: mx842Thanks your post was very helpful. Don't take this wrong but what you said about the easy access to different ammo for the 68, well the guys that like the 65's say the very same thing.LOL
I'm pretty sure I'm going with the 68 and maybe at some time in the future I'll build a 65 just for grins. Santa Clause don't know I know it, but I'm getting a Rock chucker press for Christmas. I have already bought 223 and 9mm dies just in case and I see a set of 68 dies in the very near future.LOL I have already got my loading bench built just waiting for Santa to come by Christmas morning so I can mount it.
I got away from rifle shooting a long time ago because we use shotguns for deer around here but have always wanted to get back to shooting my rifle but finding a place suitable around my neck of the woods is hard to do. Then I got hooked on the AR wagon and it's been down hill, or up hill depending on which way you look at it LOL, and when that happened a whole new world opened up for me.
I have some friends from all over the country and have the chance now to go to different parts of the country to hunt all different sorts of game and the AR platform is perfect for what I want out of a shooter. Thanks for all of your help.
I would ask to see where that "easy access" to Grendel ammmo
is? For 6.8 ammo, go to Silver State Armory, or Hornady,
and I think even Remington has some 6.8 ammo. Grendel, not so
much.
As for what to ask for in a barrel, I would look at a 1:11
twist, although a 1:10 with a SPC II chamber, would be OK.
For the 1:11 twist barrels, I don't think any will have the
old SAAMI chamber, since when barrel makers switched to the
slower twist, they also switched to the SPC II chamber at
a minimum. Some went with a third generation chamber like
the DMR.
My perfect 6.8 barrel would be a 1:11 twist stainless
barrel with a DMR chamber. I have a 1:10 twist chome/moly
with a SPC II chamber now, and I get decent accuracy, and
velocity, out of it. As for chrome lined, I wouldn't get one
unless I going into combat with the rifle, where it was
going to get shot hot.
As for hunting, a 110 gr. Barnes TSX, from a 6.8 is easily a
good deer rifle. And it is a better choice over the popular
243 Win, IMHO, for the recoil sensitive. For elk, and black
bear, it wouldn't be my first choice, but within reason, it
will do. I intend to drag mine along on the next WY speed
goat hunt. For speed goats, I am considering the 85 gr.
Barnes bullet, but for deer it will be the 110 gr.
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