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Posted: 2/7/2024 4:30:15 PM EDT
Any word on when you guys will come out with 6.5G ammo? Would love to see some Sabre blade bullets at 120ish grains.
Thought there was a thread about this at one point, but can't seem to find it. |
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Originally Posted By Yellowlake: Any word on when you guys will come out with 6.5G ammo? Would love to see some Sabre blade bullets at 120ish grains. Thought there was a thread about this at one point, but can't seem to find it. View Quote Once the steel cased ammo comes out, then 6.5 will follow. I don't have a precise eta at the moment. Thanks, Josiah |
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Palmetto State Armory
3760 Fernandina Rd Columbia, SC 29210 Web Sales: 1-803-724-6950 |
Oldschool tag
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Not fly enough to be halal....
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My supply of Hornady AG dwindles by the day. Save me PSA.
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any updates on timing on steelcase and most importantly, 6.5g?
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Originally Posted By jd2395: any updates on timing on steelcase and most importantly, 6.5g? Thanks! View Quote I was playing around with loaded AAC 7.62x39 the the other day. The 7.62 is very close to launch, then the 5.45 and 54R will be close behind. 6.5 Grendel will be the next round once the steel cased is all out. It is coming together! Thanks, Josiah |
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Palmetto State Armory
3760 Fernandina Rd Columbia, SC 29210 Web Sales: 1-803-724-6950 |
I love it when a plan comes together!
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Looks like AAC Grendel is finally coming to market! Price is higher than I was hoping for, especially for FMJ's, but I have no doubt you guys will sell all you can produce.
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Originally Posted By PalmettoStateArmory: Once the steel cased ammo comes out, then 6.5 will follow. I don't have a precise eta at the moment. Thanks, Josiah View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By PalmettoStateArmory: Originally Posted By Yellowlake: Any word on when you guys will come out with 6.5G ammo? Would love to see some Sabre blade bullets at 120ish grains. Thought there was a thread about this at one point, but can't seem to find it. Once the steel cased ammo comes out, then 6.5 will follow. I don't have a precise eta at the moment. Thanks, Josiah What’s the over/under? January 2025? |
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Originally Posted By TxRabbitBane: What’s the over/under? January 2025? View Quote It is here! https://palmettostatearmory.com/brands/advanced-armament/ammo-reloading/ammo.html?caliber_multi_v2=6.5+Grendel Josiah |
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Palmetto State Armory
3760 Fernandina Rd Columbia, SC 29210 Web Sales: 1-803-724-6950 |
Originally Posted By PalmettoStateArmory: It is here! https://palmettostatearmory.com/brands/advanced-armament/ammo-reloading/ammo.html?caliber_multi_v2=6.5+Grendel Josiah View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By PalmettoStateArmory: Originally Posted By TxRabbitBane: What’s the over/under? January 2025? It is here! https://palmettostatearmory.com/brands/advanced-armament/ammo-reloading/ammo.html?caliber_multi_v2=6.5+Grendel Josiah I’m on the waiting lists, lol. |
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It's interesting that all the General ammo pages say that the bullets (black tip, OTM and FMJ ) were developed with and produced by Hornady. I wonder if that's true of any of the other caliber black tips and OTMs?
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Originally Posted By Gtscotty: It's interesting that all the General ammo pages say that the bullets (black tip, OTM and FMJ ) were developed with and produced by Hornady. I wonder if that's true of any of the other caliber black tips and OTMs? View Quote All Black Tips and OTM are also made in a partnership with Hornady. |
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Awesome. Thank you guys, and thanks for listening and responding gents. We are lucky to have you.
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So.......
"IF" you can make 6.5 Grendel...... "CAN" you make 6 ARC????? If you "CAN", the key question is, WILL YOU??? |
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An ARMED SOCIETY is a POLITE SOCIETY!
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I’ve been refreshing the page probably five times a day hoping to finally see it in stock lol
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Originally Posted By Jman_JJE: All Black Tips and OTM are also made in a partnership with Hornady. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Jman_JJE: Originally Posted By Gtscotty: It's interesting that all the General ammo pages say that the bullets (black tip, OTM and FMJ ) were developed with and produced by Hornady. I wonder if that's true of any of the other caliber black tips and OTMs? All Black Tips and OTM are also made in a partnership with Hornady. Is the BC for the 140gr OTM similar to Hornadys 140gr BTHP (.580)? |
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Originally Posted By PalmettoStateArmory: Once the steel cased ammo comes out, then 6.5 will follow. I don't have a precise eta at the moment. Thanks, Josiah View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By PalmettoStateArmory: Originally Posted By Yellowlake: Any word on when you guys will come out with 6.5G ammo? Would love to see some Sabre blade bullets at 120ish grains. Thought there was a thread about this at one point, but can't seem to find it. Once the steel cased ammo comes out, then 6.5 will follow. I don't have a precise eta at the moment. Thanks, Josiah Will this be a copy of the 100 gr Wolf spec ammo? Reason I ask is the Wolf 100 gr ammo is interesting. The bullet profile is a copy of the exceptional SMK 107 HPBT - which is worth a look, the light weight of that bullet made it very fast (short flight-time) and it has a sleek BC, giving it quite good flight ballistics. And then, for reasons I haven't figured out yet, The Russian's ran 0.262 diameter bullets, not 0.264 - which not every gun shot so accurately. On the other hand, the 123 gr baseline bullet is also a great bullet weight and profile for 6.5 Grendel. Only reason I like the 100/107gr better is it's flatter and faster, for shooting at the distances and range that someone's likely to be shooting steel-cased ammo. |
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Originally Posted By lazyengineer: Will this be a copy of the 100 gr Wolf spec ammo? Reason I ask is the Wolf 100 gr ammo is interesting. The bullet profile is a copy of the exceptional SMK 107 HPBT - which is worth a look, the light weight of that bullet made it very fast (short flight-time) and it has a sleek BC, giving it quite good flight ballistics. And then, for reasons I haven't figured out yet, The Russian's ran 0.262 diameter bullets, not 0.264 - which not every gun shot so accurately. On the other hand, the 123 gr baseline bullet is also a great bullet weight and profile for 6.5 Grendel. Only reason I like the 100/107gr better is it's flatter and faster, for shooting at the distances and range that someone's likely to be shooting steel-cased ammo. View Quote The only 6.5 Grendel that we are doing will be brass cased. Thank you, Josiah |
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Palmetto State Armory
3760 Fernandina Rd Columbia, SC 29210 Web Sales: 1-803-724-6950 |
What was the price point? It is all sold at the moment.
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Still refreshing this page daily hoping to see “in stock”
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It's live on the website. I just ordered 8 boxes, some of each of the 3 types.
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Got my order in! Hopefully between the OTMs and BTs my rifles like one or the other. I do hope they offer a light for caliber loading down the road. A polymer tip 100ish load like the 100 ELDVT or 105 blitzking would be amazing.
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I keep missing it in stock and I'm down to about 2.5k of wolf for plinking and a few hundred of good stuff
God bless psa |
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Fuck fuck fuck.
I missed it. That shit sold out instantly, |
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Well the black tip sold out before I could complete my order...
I wonder if it is the ELD-M or the SST bullet? All good - you know they have to be running the fire out of it and it will be back in stock! Red |
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On the bright side, this level of demand will help ensure that PSA churns out more Grendel in order to find what will level the market. Then they can keep pace, and know when to move on to other calibers, which is very exciting on its own.
Lucky I was able to get an order in while it still showed "in stock." |
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Originally Posted By 55Kingpin: On the bright side, this level of demand will help ensure that PSA churns out more Grendel in order to find what will level the market. Then they can keep pace, and know when to move on to other calibers, which is very exciting on its own. Lucky I was able to get an order in while it still showed "in stock." View Quote Yep. It selling out so fast is a good thing. Because unlike the other jackasses - they will make more. And ramp up production to meet demand of they have to. Possibly this will reenforce the market desire for steel cased ammo as well. |
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I saw it out of stock, then checked a few mins later and it was in stock
Ordered 200rds to try out. |
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Originally Posted By lazyengineer: Yep. It selling out so fast is a good thing. Because unlike the other jackasses - they will make more. And ramp up production to meet demand of they have to. Possibly this will reenforce the market desire for steel cased ammo as well. View Quote I sincerely believe PSA is on a noble mission, and being ran by very competent leaders. I look forward to seeing more of that return in our great country. |
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I want to see this plentiful and in stock readily, then I want to see them switch some of this tooling over to 6arc. That round would be amazing if it had affordable ammo, much like Grendel.
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I bit for half a case of the 120 FMJ.
Really should have bought one of their other offerings bought just knee jerked it when I saw it available. Came to 400 with tax and shipping. Bought Barnual steel case for 138 half case at one point. Should bought more of that. In any case glad to see AAC making this. |
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Any of you all’s ship? Mine is still processing from their initially going live batch. It’s not a big deal I’m just anxious to get going on these Grendels.
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Originally Posted By doty_soty: Any of you all's ship? Mine is still processing from their initially going live batch. It's not a big deal I'm just anxious to get going on these Grendels. View Quote The second order still says "processing". I'm sure it'll get here and yeah, I'm anxious too. Hoping they are both here by next Friday so I can post some chrono and accuracy tests. My rifle does not seem to like Hornady factory loads, so we'll see how these work. Hornady 123g SST in either "Precision Hunter" or "Black" lines barely stay on a 8.5 x 11 paper. Same bullet over 28.0g Varget for about 2350FPS and we're down to .75". |
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Originally Posted By doty_soty: Any of you all’s ship? Mine is still processing from their initially going live batch. It’s not a big deal I’m just anxious to get going on these Grendels. View Quote I ordered on the 15th, right before I posted here that it was available. I have not received a shipping notice yet. I ordered all 3 types. |
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Is there a gel test video for the 123 Sabre? I saw the PSA video where they shot a gel block but It didn’t show the results.
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Received shipping/tracking info email today. Should deliver on Thursday.
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Originally Posted By Landshark9025: I ordered in two batches. One has shipped, but was delayed by USPS and should be out for delivery today as it says it is at the main hub. The second order still says "processing". I'm sure it'll get here and yeah, I'm anxious too. Hoping they are both here by next Friday so I can post some chrono and accuracy tests. My rifle does not seem to like Hornady factory loads, so we'll see how these work. Hornady 123g SST in either "Precision Hunter" or "Black" lines barely stay on a 8.5 x 11 paper. Same bullet over 28.0g Varget for about 2350FPS and we're down to .75". View Quote I think the white box Hornady is the SST bullet, the black is the ELD-M. |
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Asa Phelps has died.
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Mine is in the mail, should be here Thurs or Fri. Excited to see how it goes
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Between this and the 77gr tipped 5.56, I need to stop buying ammo for a while before the mrs notices the sharp uptick in spending.
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Originally Posted By lazyengineer: Will this be a copy of the 100 gr Wolf spec ammo? Reason I ask is the Wolf 100 gr ammo is interesting. The bullet profile is a copy of the exceptional SMK 107 HPBT - which is worth a look, the light weight of that bullet made it very fast (short flight-time) and it has a sleek BC, giving it quite good flight ballistics. And then, for reasons I haven't figured out yet, The Russian's ran 0.262 diameter bullets, not 0.264 - which not every gun shot so accurately. On the other hand, the 123 gr baseline bullet is also a great bullet weight and profile for 6.5 Grendel. Only reason I like the 100/107gr better is it's flatter and faster, for shooting at the distances and range that someone's likely to be shooting steel-cased ammo. Originally Posted By PalmettoStateArmory: The only 6.5 Grendel that we are doing will be brass cased. Thank you, Josiah View Quote He was asking about the bullet, not the case. |
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I ordered a sample box of all three loads of 6.5g a couple weeks ago, a 250 round box of 77gr AAC 556 and a couple boxes of 308 hunting ammo.
They shipped the 308 immediately, but the 6.5 and 556 didn’t ship. So I’m thinking, okay, 6.5 probably oversold, and I’m waiting on the next batch. Except both the 556 and 6.5 are shown as in stock and available to order. Weird. |
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Asa Phelps has died.
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Originally Posted By FightingHellfish: I ordered a sample box of all three loads of 6.5g a couple weeks ago, a 250 round box of 77gr AAC 556 and a couple boxes of 308 hunting ammo. They shipped the 308 immediately, but the 6.5 and 556 didn’t ship. So I’m thinking, okay, 6.5 probably oversold, and I’m waiting on the next batch. Except both the 556 and 6.5 are shown as in stock and available to order. Weird. View Quote If you PM me your order number, I can take a look at it for you. Thanks, Josiah |
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Palmetto State Armory
3760 Fernandina Rd Columbia, SC 29210 Web Sales: 1-803-724-6950 |
Ordered 3 boxes of 6.5 G this morning for my son. Hoping for good results. For the price, it should be a good seller. Thanks
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