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Where did 6.5 Lapua Grendel brass go??

does anybody know where it all went?? Pandemic hoarding? Anybody know where to get any?
 
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Thought it was Alexander Arms contracted with Lapua. You couldn't get it unless you bought it from A.A.

The Grendel was a proprietary cartridge for its first few years, ie the sole property of Alexander Arms. Lapua had participated in its development stages though and this may have given them a stake in its ownership depending on their agreement with AA. In any event, it was Lapua who made AA Grendel brass for some years.

However, after it finally became clear that the US forces weren't going to adopt the design, AA de-propriaterised it (to invent a word!) and with Hornady and Lapua the cartridge was registered with both SAAMI and CIP, thereby open to any and all firearms, case and ammunition manufacturers. Since then, Lapua, Hornady and PPU have made brass, IIRC Starline too though I may be wrong on that one. As well as quality / strength issues there are differences between some makes. PPU for instance originally used large primers and the standard 2mm / 0.081" flash-hole changing to small primer a couple of years ago after complaints of 'soft' case-heads, but retaining the large diameter flash-hole. Lapua has the small dimension for both items, can't speak for the others. So far, my experience of Lapua is that it is excellent in both consistency and strength, the sole 'oddity' being the shoulders being set back far more than normal for new cases. (Deliberate with this design being initially at any rate seeing near 100% use in semi-auto AR type rifles?)
 
Bruno's has LOTS.
Saw this ^^ and went to Brunos and saw this:
Bruno Shooters Supply website is currently shut down to focus on the extreme amount of orders we are behind. If you have a pending order with us, we will be focusing our 100% attention on getting it billed and shipped as quickly as possible. We will not be accepting any new orders for the time. Please do not try to call, or email in any new orders. They will not be put through. Please note - on all pending orders, we will automatically be cancelling any items that are out of stock and shipping only whatever items are in stock. The website will be shut down for several days, thank you for your patience and patronage! We will be back as soon as we can!
 

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