6.5 grendel antelope loads.

[Philly]

Picked up a mini howa barreled action and have an antelope hunt coming up and thinking about using this. I have brass but don’t have any lighter bullets. But what’s your favorite antelope load out to 400 yards? Thanks.

 

[NZ_Fclass]

The best velocity with the Grendel is with Power Pro Varmint. Shoot 120g with the loads from the Sierra manual. Next best is IMR 8208. Loads from the Hodgdon website. I have also being working up 100 Hornady loads using Benchmark. I use mainly Lapua brass, but Hornady brass for hunting loads. Im sure that you can work up a fairly quick load using that data ( it will like to go fairly quickly!) I would start 1.5g under maximum and work up in .2g increments. I found best accuracy and good velocity, at less than maximum loads, with projectiles loaded to max magazine length.

 

[5spd]

28g x8208, 123g sst hornady, accurate from 100 to 400, hits steel hard. This is my goat load this year.

 

[JASmith]

The Hornady 123 gr is a “go-to” bullet for a lot of Grendeliers.

There are lots of loads for it in various sources, including the 6.5 Grendel Reloading Handbook.