I got two deer last night with this load! A decent size 8-point and a big doe. instagram.com/p/CHrCbiVJgsu/

@Bifistik

3 жыл бұрын

Very nice, is there a video of the hunt coming? I’m hoping to hunt vicariously through you since I can only go 1 maybe 2 times this year.

@veteranironoutdoors8320

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Looking forward to the terminal ballistics report

@RiverBoundXJ

3 жыл бұрын

What was the ranges on em?

@scottt.miller8151

3 жыл бұрын

Did they drop or run off after the shots?

@justinvandee2008

3 жыл бұрын

Sweet and Congrats

Mrs. JRB from the other room "Are you shooting out the window?"

@G5Hohn

3 жыл бұрын

Obviously there's no Mrs JRB. Nobody married has the time or money to do what JRB does ;)

Waking up to JRB is better than coffee, OK almost better than coffee but damn close.

The one dislike is from someone with antlers

I ended up going with AR Comp in my AR-10 .308 loads. Seemed to work best in November in Mississippi. Those Speer Gold Dots are BOSS!

I shot a Coues 8 point last week on the Mexico border in Arizona with the Grendel (CZ 527). 505 yards head on, load pushed a 129 gr ABLR to 2580. The deer moved about 15 yards and fell over. Super nice round for game up to 250lb or so. H335 btw.

They all would kill a deer, but a few would let you pick which hair to shoot. That gun is a shooter.

This is just what I need for my birthday ! A new video from JRB reloading ! THANKS !

Uuuuuuu I am already grabbing a bucket of popcorn and a beer to watch your video....

I just want to say thank you johnny for all the videos, you helped inspired me to get into long range shooting and encouraged me in my load dev. Process you seem like a great guy who really enjoys the art of reloading and the sport of target shooting from the bottom of my heart thank you for these videos ive rewatched all of your 223 videos and probably rewatched all you 308 videos and watched many or your other videos you are an amazing source of information im excited on your 6mm arc discoveries, thanks again from a young man from east TN stay well my friend

Great videos! Very informative!! Would love to see more of the bullet expansion with all the different bullets your trying. Thanks for these videos!!👍🏻

Damn, the money you save me, leads to the money you cost me!! Great videos amigo!

I'm envious! I spent the weekend, and then some, out at camp and mostly saw just a couple of does and a single four-point that I was more interested with shooting with my camera than with my gun. My father wanted to tag along this year, and he managed to get one with his .270.

Ar-Comp gets 2 gold stars out of my rifle, TAC is a very close 2nd! Good to see the Grendel back, if only for a short. Great job Johnny.......BUZZ

This series inspired my buddy. He used a 6.5 Grendel and 120 GD’s over 8208 for opening weekend. Absolutely hammered two does and a buck. That little bullet kicks butt, and so does this series.

One thing I will say about shooting the gold dots. They have a rebatted boat tail. One thing you have to watch out for is when you are seating the bullets make sure you don't load the bullet's boat tail where the bearing surface start below the case shoulder neck junction. If you have developed a donut in your brass the rebate boat tail will catch that donut if you seat it past the donut. You will absolutely feel the resistance when you hit the donut as it catches the rebate edge as if you were seating a flat based bullet. Just an FYI.

I really like the barnes 100gr TTSX for whitetail hunting with the grendel. In front of a heavy drop of H322 or XBR. It has no problem with the whitetails way up nort here in WI. Last year I shot 3 deer with this load. 2 DRT and 1 made it about 30yds. Shots were from 80yds to 130yds.

used my howa mini on several deer, used factory 123 sst from hornady, took one clean at 340, smaller button buck and took an adult doe at 305, gun/bullet preformed far better than i had hoped at that distance, no bullet was recovered from either deer, all the deer i had taken before these two were neck shot at 50 yards or less, glad to see someone else trying it out on deer, i might have to try the 120 speer/ar comp load, when i can find components, thanks for posting the video

Great job as usual Johnny!

Good shooting. I love all things gold dot. They definitely need to start pumping out the projectiles, I'm down to a few hundred myself

I enjoy your videos on the Grendel. I harvested a 10 pointer with a holiday 129interlock and 27.0 grain 8208xbr full pass through at 65 yards

Btw - shooting from inside the house is awesome! #jealous

Band-Aid close-up = Johnny's Reloading Boo-boo

Hope you had a good hunt, I am finally getting to go Wednesday and Thursday of the first week here in Ky.

OK, now I've been through every Grendel video that you have posted!

Johnny, I redid the testing exactly as you did. The only difference is I had an 18 inch Alexander arms stainless barrel. I got almost the same results but N540 was 1.01 inches max spread the rest was comparable. Many thanks for you outstanding video's. I am a proud Patrion Contributor.

Great to see your vids on utube. They are still my favorite place watch you. Congrats on the 2 deer.

@craignmz5264

3 жыл бұрын

Cool Shooters I have to say I am really liking the organizer I bought from you!

@CoolShooters

3 жыл бұрын

@@craignmz5264 Great to hear you like it. I hope everyone is happy who has bought one.

@austintyler7991

3 жыл бұрын

Organizer ? Tell me more

@craignmz5264

3 жыл бұрын

@@austintyler7991 Its called the Hornady Comparator stand. It organizes your headspace and bullet comparators. Great set up. Coolshooters.ca check it out.

Your buffer spring twanging like crazzzzzzy good vid

been waiting to see more Grendel from you

Those really opened up nice. I’ll be picking some of those up if they ever come back into stock

JRB you crack me up! You have a minimum a Redding T-7 and a Hornady LNL, and your using a Lee press to load Lapua brass. I like your videos keep up the good work. I don't have or shoot Grendel or some of the other calibers, but I still watch to see what I can learn

Great to have you back Johnny! I barely got the notification for this video and the .300 Win Mag video you did a couple weeks back today; so I spent the day on and off getting caught up. Do you have any plans to continue your reboot on your "Beginners Guide To Reloading" series? IIRC you only did a couple of videos introducing the equipment and concept before your hiatus. Can't wait to see what content you have coming down the pipe!

"I got a brass catcher that I'm going to put on" BANG!!! TINK TINK TINK "Dang I forgot to put that stupid brass catcher on" LMAO The simple things in life that make you chuckle and I think we all them moments brother.

So excited for a new video. We have a bit different deer loads, mine is a 215 berger hybrid under a helping of rl26 :)

@austintyler7991

3 жыл бұрын

300WM ? 2800-2900 fps ? That RL26 is the cats meow.😆

@dangerranger4323

3 жыл бұрын

@@austintyler7991 21” 300 prc 2900

Better than a cup of coffee!... Buying more of these pills asap

I don't want to sound like a typical viewer who just asks for unreasonable things, but as a someone who doesn't have much to contribute, I am looking into building an AR chambered in .350 legend, and think it would be really cool if you were to make a video expressing your thoughts, or possibly even reloading it and experimenting with some 9mm bullets in the 350 cartridges. Just some food for thought, I've just stumbled onto your videos and really love them, have learned a lot, and am even interested into getting into the hobby myself. Thanks for the inspiration! you sir have earned a new viewer/subscriber for hopefully a long time to come

@whiskeytangofoxtrotover9651

3 жыл бұрын

He already said no 350 on the live feed.

It's the trade off for 6.5 Grendel. It wants to run near the top of the powder charge. So you have to get ugly with the brass to get the best accuracy and acceptable velocities. You gotta beat the brass up. Second thing, if you put a decent gun grease on your buffer spring, you will get rid of the spring rattle noise when you shoot.

@craignmz5264

3 жыл бұрын

Lol that was the first thing I noticed, it sounds like my old Bushmaster. If you watch the newest SOTAR he lubes the crap out of everything, way more that I thought was excessive!

@seanmtactical6069

3 жыл бұрын

@@craignmz5264 LOL, funny you mentioned SOTAR. I use a thicker home brew of his ingredients for the buffer springs on AR's at work. No spoing noise after that. I've actually tried to get an AR to fail from over lube with grease. It's pretty tough. You basically have to go super thick and in the cold.

@Turing_Test

3 жыл бұрын

$20 for a flat wire buffer spring is a good option as well.

I mark where the little retainer button hits on the lock ring so itd thr same. I use the exact same press and die rings. Also, go to home depot and get some all head screws instead of the little Phillips head to tighten the rings. I forget the size. I really miss the old steel bushings with the better Allen screw.

I was listening to the replay of your last twitch stream while I shot my second for the season.

If you are using the labradar with a suppressor I can recommend the recoil operated trigger for the labradar. Works perfectly.

CCI mag primers have a thicker cup. Same as the 41 milspec

For Deer my 6.5 grendel which has a 20" barrel really likes the 100 grain Nosler ballistic tip with 27.5 grains of AR-comp. I know I should not put that load data out there. I dropped the bullet weight to get the velocity up enough to make the bullets perform like they should. Man do they perform. 100 grain pill is plenty for our Whitetails and really accurate. I can push the velocity a little faster but why, it's right at 2500 fps no pressure signs and does what I need it to do. Good luck in the woods!

I imagine you could get a screaming round with the 95 grain T-Rex bullets from maker.

Good stuff. Very interested in this end result.

My Grendel got a Doe last weekend. Great round.

I use the 6.8 mags almost always in my Grendels and I’ve never had an issue actually prefer the 6.8 asc mags for my grendels

Good luck on the hunt! I didn’t draw in my state (New Mexico) 😢

Great message 👍 and info brother see you soon

Yummm!! Fresh deer!

Just looking at your shooting bench & settup there Johnny & you're using the adjustable forend rest there. I wonder if you might consider switching to a bipod & a piece of timber screwed to the bench at the correct position to allow you to load the bipod against your shoulder. For years I used a settup like you're currently using but, lately I've switched to the loaded bipod method with considerably superior results. It's more comfortable & repeatable &, you're not kinda just hanging there at the back of the rifle. The loaded bipod method engages the shooter with rifle so much more positively. I think the free recoil style of bench shooting is much more inclined to heavier benchrest or F cass style rifles. Your rifle is bucking around &, as you said, you just don't look to be comfortable behind the rifle.

Well the wife and I have taken 2 deer with our grendels. Both of us are using 120gr Barnes Tipped TSX belts at about 2600fps, cant remember exactly the chronograph speed. Both deer went about 40 yards and fell. Both were double lung no heart shots. Pass through. Test some Barnes Tipped TSX, or just plain TSX bullest. 100% weight retention.

Fellow viewers, help me convince jonnie to bring back the paper targets. Who misses seeing bullets put tiny groups on paper. Colored circles aren't as satisfying as ragged holes

@craigmyers5569

3 жыл бұрын

I agree the paper targets are nice but the shot marker system makes things easier for Johnny to produce and edit videos. If easier means more videos, I will gladly pick shot marker.

Last time I was this early, you had to be alive to vote! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Also, am I the only one here that's gonna miss these videos when Biden bans AR's?

Love this stuff from u. Test a hunting load with accuracy and pentrashion and perform testing. Love be able to shoot at home. Was able to at my parents.

CFE223 is very chemicaly reactive with lubricant. It has caused fail to fire in my competition trigger groups it turns the lubricant to sludge like concrete. So unless you relubricate and clean your rifle and trigger group every time you shoot I will no longer use it because when you pull the trigger you want it to go bang. Nothing worse than weapons malfunction when you are under stress.

N540 works great in a 22-250 as well as a 6.5 creed with light bullets.

Johnny do you have a vid on your Grendel rifle build? (Don't recall hearing if you bought or built that rifle) great vid, first year w/my Grendel, I'm looking forward to rifle season... Thank uou

2 issues come to mind. Crappy mag isn't engaging the bolt catch properly. Or not enough gas to cycle fully.

Thanks for the video's. I was wondering if you do seating depth test to bring down your group size. If you don't I was curious why and if you do why you don't show it?

With best groups with both powder the velocity was same. Makes you wonder if the powder charge was dropped to get around 2425 with 540 if it would of shot well too.

I would love to see the 140 gr Gold Dot. It should have plenty of low velocity expansion down around 1800 fps. Energy and penitration should be excellent but stabilization is my concern.

Do you ever test for first shot accuracy off a cold bore? Example: is the 27.0 load better at hitting point of sim vs 27.6 load for that “hunting” shot?

Ky been using ar comp as best powder in my personal testing as well.

that n540 velocity node should also be an accuracy node.

Nice press I have one to

I've shot up to 28g of AR comp under 120 smk and 120 gold dots

In your opinion, do you believe these are the same projectiles in the Federal Fusion factory loads?

YES ! More Grendel videos. I am going to try the 90gr TNT. Any powder suggestions ?

@austintyler7991

3 жыл бұрын

CFE223

@happysnowfish

5 ай бұрын

I know I'm a bit late here, but for my 2c try H335, H322, and 8208xbr. The cfe223 seems to work quite a bit better for middle weight to heavier bullets for me.

Do you think the Lapua brass contributed to the small SDs?

Have you tried E Lander magazines. Larue Tactical has them

My best 2 loads for my Grendel were 27.0gr and 27.5gr of AR Comp under 120gr Nosler Ballistic Tips or Sierra 120gr Matchking. .5" groups all day long,,,,,,if I do my part. Lol

Why are you not shooting groups out your window......that's the perfect setup. Test all kinds of stuff and your right there to load more of it to confirm.

WOOT!

Have you tried any Hornady eld match in your 6.5 creedmoor? I have a Remington 700 PCR in 6.5 creedmoor and it absolutely loves Hornady eld match. I've tried reloading some rounds but I can't get close enough to the factory match stuff.

Hey johnny, i had a 6.5 grendel ar made at a local gun shop called boyd county indoor range, back in April. Ive been shooting factory loads through out the summer, but thought i might try to tighten it up with handloads for it recently. So ive been geeking out on your channel for a few days, and your early (4years ago) videos show you at a range that looks just like my range, northeastern. Im sure someone has asked this before, but are you in boyd county?

Where there hell are you finding those GDs?!

Just loaded up some 140 gold dots with staball 65 in creedmoor. Hoping they smack a deer good out od my tikka

Do some Nosler RDF I've been testing that out with TAC and 8208

Do you ever think about removing your suppressor to reduce back pressure and pressure sign ? Another thing To true your velocity Is use a ballistic program like Strelok Pro. I also use a Magna speed 3,I was using it was using it to test my Velocities It was reading 2009, But when I use my ballistics program to true the velocity it gave me an average velocity of 2078. And this coincided with my bullet drop from my 100 yd zero to 300 yd. Just a thought

Johnny, have you tried LeverEvolution powder with any Grendel loads! Thoughts? Works well on the 77gr SMK!

Yes oh yes

Nice work! Have you done a work up on 223 69gr hpbt matchking? I thought you did but can't find it.

Hey Johnny I know you have a lot of projects but would you ever consider making a video on reloading 30-06 Springfield? Might be interesting because of the versatility of the bullet weights and powder loads.

@austintyler7991

3 жыл бұрын

Yea I'd say 30-06 with 180 or 200 gold-dot w RL26 would be all around hunting round for anything up to elephants, hippos,

@liampeet15

3 жыл бұрын

@@austintyler7991 Love the 30-06, great calibre for hunting here in Australia.

For the love of god Speer please make this bullet in .284 cal Great vid!!!!

@themazmanmechanic

3 жыл бұрын

And .243

@cory8791

3 жыл бұрын

@@themazmanmechanic I bet that would make a great bullet for that caliber!

Is it bad I have only shot my 12.5" Faxon 6.5 Grendel with a Trash Panda on it?

Ya ya ya!!!

Subsonic 6.5 Grendel :)

I like N540

Did you ever get data for winchester stabil in the 6.5 grendel? It's some of the only powder I can get.

What container size are you using for your grendel loads? The MTM RSLD-50 I have is a little floppy/ over sized. Thanks

Would love to see a hunt update good luck

@jacksonthompson7099

3 жыл бұрын

Check his comment. He got a 8 point buck and a big doe.

@tadglidden679

3 жыл бұрын

I seen that no pic or anything

Anyone know the minimum impact velocity of the 6.5 gold dot???

Not sure why you picked 540. I use 530 up to 123 bullets, and 140/540 for anything heavier but for 120 or less its a bit low burn rate. Now to watch the rest of the video, you might prove me wrong :)

Can you please tell me what Reloading books do you use. Thanks

TAC what I use, 2360 FPS from 16 inch barrel

Damn I'm here early

Lyman Compact, Gen6, Digital Powder System, are you still using it?

Can you please do a grendel video with 90 grain Speer tnt bullets with benchmark powder? I would like to know how my hand loads with 30.5 grains of powder perform while hunting coyotes. Please and thanks!

I never use anything above 3 power in ky anyway, hill's and woods everywhere never have shot over 200 much

On the first two groups of vitavori you hear a rattling sound (plastic on metal i belive) for shots 1-4 but not for shot 5. Don't see anyting obvious in the frame moving. But since you can't hear it for shoot 5 I wonder if it comes from the magazine or buffer assembly?

@craignmz5264

3 жыл бұрын

Buffer spring.