Originally Posted by
jwfuhrman
anyone still doing anything with this project idea?
I had traded off the Aero M5 that I had built this concept off of, kept the 6.5 barrel with the intent of doing something different with it but the guy I traded the M5 with wanted to use it as trade for something I had in my shop so long story short, I have it back and now I have it with the 16in 308 Hanson barrel and this 16in 6.5 Hanson barrel that I kept. I'm a big fan of the youtube guys BrassFacts and Hop and a few others that are more "civilian gear review and shtf concepts without having a military background" as that pertains more to me and those to afforementioned channels have been doing alot with Battle Rifles lately, along with a few other channels and they discuss 6.5 but barrel life for 6.5 is about 1/3 of 308 so most of them have decided to go with 308 based.
I'm back and forth now. I'd like to stick with 6.5 as my B14 HMR setup is in 6.5 and having one caliber to deal with would make logistics easier. But 308 is more prevalent than 6.5, amongst the "group" that if things were to collapse I'd need to rely on, ie immediate family, cousins and fellow farmers, all mostly have FAL's and M1A's when it comes to 308 Semi Autos, plus 556 AR's so 308 makes sense to have if that is factored in.
I've got a 3-18 Primary Arms GLx with the 6.5 specific reticle that I'm wanting to take off the B14 to put the 4.5-27 GLx(fyi, for the money, that glass is HARD to beat) so if I stick with 6.5 for this project, I'll put that 3-18 otherwise, I'm leaning more towards a 2-10x36 Credo and 308.