Reviews & Ratings for Faxon Firearms 12 inch Gunner Profile 6.5 Grendel Barrel — 7 reviews — Page 1

Excellent product. Gas port and grooves looked great on inside when inspecting before install. Finish on barrel is great and fit snug in upper. Waiting on couple other items to test accuracy but will update after shooting it.

Bought this not knowing what to expect shouldn't have worried hornady black groups around 1 inch at 100 yards and handloads are half that have used it to ring steel to 750 yes with good success have not attempted 1000 yet still working on a 1000 yard load bet it will do it

This is an update to my initial review. This barrel can shoot. I had to fine tune the 123 Gr Hornady SST's but I found a good charge weight and bullet crimp and and shooting MOA or better. This barrel did not like the factory SST's at all but with hand loads it is a tack driver. I also shot some factory 129 Gr ELD match MOA or better. This might even get tighter if I had a better trigger and a higher power scope. I am using a Viper PST Gen II and while it has great glass, there is a limit to how accurate I can shoot at 6X and using a very heavy mil-spec trigger. I got the trigger with a lower parts kit and while it works I have no intention on keeping it for very long.

My initial thoughts on this barrel after accuracy testing 40 rounds of factory Hornady Custom 123 gr SST are that it is a decent barrel. I was getting 1-1.5 inch groups at 100 yards when the barrel is cold. I Was getting 2.5-3 MOA when the barrel heats up but this barrel is light and that was not unexpected. This was after about a full 25 round mag. I really want to shoot the SST's exclusively out of this gun for their low velocity expansion threshold of 1600 fps. I would have liked slightly better initial results but I reload so I expect that I can bring this down to a sub 1 MOA gun or very close with the SST's. Point of impact shift when hot wasn't bad either at 100 yards. After a full mag, the shift was about 1 inch from cold bore to full 25 round mag hot. Another note is that the gas port seems generous. I got solid 3-4 o'clock ejection after settling on a H2 buffer. I wish it was slightly smaller and able to rock a H1 without being over gassed. My plan now is to swap to an adjustable gas block and swap back to a standard carbine buffer to cut down on carbon fouling and excessive wear. As this is the only melonited 12" Grendel barrel that I know of, I would recommend this barrel with no problem. If Ballistics Advantage offered their Hanson 12.5 inch barrel melonited, I may have gone with that. From my scouring the inter-webs, I believe that BA barrels maybe a slight bit more accurate but I have no first hand experience of this. I was spoiled with accuracy with my first AR...
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12 inch pistol, 2 inch group at 50 yards with cheap Wolf steel case ammo and Sig red dot. No FTF,FTE, ejection at 3 o'clock....next will try some Hornady...I think I am GTG !!! Good truck gun for around the farm...

Awesome.... accurate 123gr sst factory Hornady shot clusters at 2350fps... killed a massive 400 lb boar , 200 lb whitetail, and yote all around 150 yrds... all drt! Tight es and sd velocity figures too! Makes a great compact package for youth or stalking as well