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First loaded round for the grand son's Grendel, 100 gr. Partition, we will get sighted in next week, raining right now (which we need badly)!

Seems like it’s getting extremely popular for a kids first rifle. Good luck to you guys.

Looks good!

What rifle is he using?

Looks good! My stepson shot his first deer during last falls September youth hunt with my CZ 527 in 6.5 Grendel with a factory 123 SST. I like that rifle and cartridge a lot.

I like your confidence Sir, load one round and shoot it before loading another. 😁

The best of luck to your grandson.

I was planning on shooting a group today also, maybe in a day or two.

That should work!
The Grendel is a sweet little round. I've banged steel out past 600 yards with mine.
Great CF round to start the young ones on.

Howa Mini, cut the plastic stock down to fit him, will get something else when he grows a bit.

He was coming down to finish up the online Hunter Safety Course and I wanted to have him a loaded round ready to paw. He helped me deprime, resize and clean the brass, but I wanted him to see a loaded round.

I got bullets in Friday (Thanks to Doc Holidude for turning me on to Grice) and have the cases ready to prime and load with him one afternoon this week. Will hit my range with him next weekend to sight in and start practicing.

Got him a Lifetime Hunting license the day he was born...

That lifetime license is an awesome gift. They were offered here in MI years ago when I was a teenager. I didn’t have the money to buy one but it would have payed for itself several times over even with the limited hunting that I do.

I can’t imagine a better gift than that for a grandfather to buy his grandson.

Sounds like a great setup for a kid.

The lifetime hunting license is a wonderful gift for a newborn here in Tennessee. My kids have them, and if they ever have kids, they’ll get them as well.

Hopefully he’ll get a shot at a nice buck when juvenile season rolls around. There’s nothing more fun than seeing how excited a kid gets when shooting their first deer.

The lifetime hunting license is a great idea. The Grendel is great for young shooters.

Guns still shoot in the rain.

I have a cover at the range, so rain is not an issue, but it was a lack of enough ammo. He had football games yesterday and I was off doing politics in Middle TN, so I will finish getting 10 rounds done and we will get zeroed and shoot for group, see if my seating depth is right and if this load groups well, then to load a bunch.

I could tell you a story about seating depth. 🤨🤨

I’d like to hear it.

That kid is fortunate! Good luck the both of you this season and beyond.

An old gunsmith buddy of mine, rest his soul, had a guy call him about teaching his son to shoot.
When Mitch arrived at the range, a guy resembling a NFL defensive lineman was standing at the shooting bench. His son, a 13 year old weighing about a buck sat at the bench.
When Mitch walked up to the bench, the double-Y chromosome ape told the kid, "Shoot the gun."
The kid snugged up to the gun and pulled the trigger!
His cap flew off! The muzzle blast created a dust cloud that just kinda sat there in the still, east Texas air.
Mitch picked up the rifle.
Weatherby .300 Wby Mag.
Pop was taking son on his first Colorado mule deer hunt.

"First thing you have to do is get this kid a gun he can shoot." Mitch said.

The guy relented, bought the kid a .243 Win. Mitch worked with the kid about a month.
Kid killed a damned nice mulie!

I applaud you for getting a kid a caliber he can handle and is fully capable of taking deer.
Kudos!
May he hunt with it for many years!

Me too, always up tp learn.

What powder are you using?

I had by best luck with 2520