6.5 Grendel vs 308 Winchester: Everything You Need To Know 

6.5 Grendel. 75% of the energy of .308 with the same trajectory. Lighter rifle and lighter ammo. If 1900ft/lbs will get the job done, may as well save the weight.

I got a Grendel to test for a kid gun for deer. taken several deer with it and well the 308 stays home and the Grendel goes hunting with me now. If I was shooting over 300 yds I would take the 308. Inside of 200yds where I do most of my hunting I'll take the Grendel.

6.5 Grendel is the ultimate Do-It-All AR-15 cartridge. Short, medium, and long range. Plus, you can build an upper receiver for a lot less than a whole new AR-10 rifle.

My 6.5 Grendel is one of my favorite antelope rifles I have.

FInally the honest comparison i've been looking for.

For SHTF and economics. Carry a .223 pistol 10.5 inch and keep a dedicated upper 6.5 with 18 inch barrel for long range. Best of both worlds. AR 10 is great too and you can add a Creedmoor upper too

I shot around 30 woodchucks last summer with a grendel. Liked it so much I set up a light weight 16 inch barrel as well this fall. Both Wilson combat barrels

They're 6.5 Grendel loads and bullet weights they are far above these and reloading it brings this farther even more. (I've loaded 144gr 6.5 Grendel cartridges with a muzzle velocity of 2,380fps from that smaller case with that heavier projectile.

I've loved 308 all my life, I finally got an AR10 and have since built a 2nd 6.5cm upper. I was bidding on ammo and accidentally bought 6.5 Grendel, so I bought even more & now I've got a barrel. Looking forward to building it into an upper! My grandson will probably learn to hunt with it.

I was a doubter of the Grendel. I met some dude that had one first time shooter bought a 6.5 and I was like why you can't shoot it as much cuz it's expensive. Until yesterday he was gonging it up at 600 yd and I was occasionally hitting it with the 308 in a strong crosswind

Great video. Excellent presentation of the information.

They should have adopted the Grendel for the new military cartridge.

I love both. I built a few grendels cause I wanted something better than 556 out of the ar platform. Wolf is what help grendel take off. Now that wolf ammo is drying up and all is left is the expensive stuff. 308 is cheaper than 6.5 right now sadly.

My go to caliber is 308. But I recently bought a 6.5 Grendel upper receiver.which I have not fired yet.. I like your presentation.

A Hunter that actually does it for a living god a big study on 6.5 Grendel vs 308 for medium to large game and surprisingly said he sold his 308 and will never buy another and goes on to name a long list of reasons and said the 6.5 Grendel penetrates better shoots flatter and just kills better than the 308 and says he chooses the 6.5 Grendel over all others to hunt It’s very interesting if you’re a hunter and although I can’t remember the name of the place I read it I’m sure it wouldn’t be difficult to find but you should check it out

I think I'd great if you did a video on varmint cartridges like 17 Rem and 220 Swift. They're not talked about very often and I would love to hear what you think about them.

Hornady American Gunner is a great value in 6.5 Grendel. Nosler (although expensive) is the absolute best in class for Grendel. It's fantastic, accurate, hard hitting, but expensive ($50+ per box right now).

bravo.thenks

The new Reuger SFAR 308 is a super compact and fun solution. 7 pounds in an AR10 is fantastic and so easy to shoot.

308win is my pick out of 6.5 grendel But I would go with 6.5 creedmore in my AR-10 ⁉️ LR-10 The new best hunting platforms. The mini- grendel Is good for 🧐🦌 hunting for my kid's

I would go for the 308... just the ammo selection and cost.

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.308 cuz it’s more readily available and somewhat affordable and recoil is not that bad if you suppress it!

I can’t understand why more and more people these days believe you need these ridiculous calibers to hunt deer or hogs or really just anything if you listen to them talk. It’s hard for me to take anyone serious that believes it takes these giant calibers, to me it shows that they have little to no experience with hunting any animal and are just repeating whatever they heard from other inexperienced “hunters” on RU-vid or some forum online. People should really do their own research if they’re new to this and go back and look at what the old mountain men used for elk, moose, Buffalo, and everything else and see what it’s ballistics show and when they do they’ll see that most of the rifles they used were less powerful than today’s 9mm pistol round and the ones that were more powerful wasn’t by much and it makes me wanna ask these people if they think they knew more about hunting than the mountain men did. I’m not telling anyone to go hunt elk with a pellet gun but it doesn’t take anywhere near as much to bring down these animals as they’d like to think and history back me up on this one, for instance the world record grizzly bear, at the time, was killed by a little older lady with a 22 long which is even less powerful than the 22lr that’s so popular today so as long as you get experience in whatever caliber you choose to use then you shouldn’t need to worry AT ALL, it’s far more a fact of the hunters experience and shooting ability than it is the caliber. When you say you wouldn’t use the 6.5 Grendel on elk, a simple search on RU-vid will show a young lady that took down a very large bull elk at right at 400yds with the 6.5 Grendel so I’m curious as to what you think about what she did. Thanks for the videos God Bless All

*6.5 Grendel hand loads with Barnes ttsx bullets enter the chat*

Can I use my 7.62x39 AR bolt for 6.5 grendel?

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How about 6.5 Grendel vs 6.8 SPC!

All the data that’s tracked on these only goes out to 500 yds unfortunately. They’re also not considering what happens when you give the Grendel a longer barrel. .308 really starts dropping after 500.

the 556 as a military calibre was a terrible decision except for weight of ammo being carried by soldiers. absolutely pathetic stopping power compared to the 762.

Realistically seems like the Grendel is a top pick for deer and smaller. Technically you have the energy to take an elk at 100 ish yards. Though every damn time i've ever gone elk hunting I cant recall a time the big bastards being closer than 300 or so. Not sure why since almost all my deer have been harvested sub 100. That's just the way it goes I suppose.

We need more comparisons like this I could watch one of these every day bored

I would take 6.5G all day Every day. Easy on the rifle easy on the shoulder easy

6.5 Grendel beats .308 hands down.