Whitetail AR: Alexander Arms’ Game-Taking 6.5 Grendel

By Jay Langston

Anything but a stock 16-inch barreled AR chambered in .223 Remington/5.56mm NATO often takes months after it is ordered to be delivered to your local gun shop. These are the times we live in, where the demand for semi-custom rifles is so great that production backlogs and long waits are common. One rifle that is well worth the wait, if any, is an Alexander Arms model chambered for the 6.5 Grendel.

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When I received this assignment to review this Alexander Arms rifle chambered in the “new” 6.5 Grendel, I wasn’t unfamiliar with the rifle or cartridge. Over the past few years, I have tested and evaluated five different AR-platform rifles chambered in this cartridge that were built by four different manufacturers. As a fan of .264-caliber bullets for long-range shooting and hunting whitetail-sized game, it didn’t take very many rounds downrange to realize this cartridge was a winner.

This year marks the 12th anniversary of the 6.5 Grendel. In January 2003, Bill Alexander and Lapua engineer Janne Phohjoispaa began working together to design and finalize the dimensions of the 6.5 Grendel cartridge. Their initial thoughts of basing the cartridge …Read the Rest

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