We Built an AK in 6.5 Grendel
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2021
- Today we take a look at a DMR AK that we built, chambered in 6.5 Grendel. It's definitely the only gun of it's kind, so let's dive into what makes it special!
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About Me
My name is Brandon Herrera. I'm the owner and operator of The AK Guy Inc, a 07 Firearm Manufacturer based out of Fayetteville, NC. I also co-own Stark Media Group, and designed the rifle known as the AK-50.
I've started to dedicate this RUclips channel above all to have fun, but also as a way to document my entrepreneurial journey for the next few years as I try to grow my companies. Hopefully, people can learn from my example, successes, and failures.
Either way, I'm having a lot of fun with it so far, and I hope it's just as fun to follow along!
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13 minutes ago, seems legit
Hello father
build an ak but in 500 nitro express. bet you cant do that
Hi dad
Yessssssssss, been watching for 4½ years nate. Very cool!!!!!!!!!! Also what about a .50BMG necked down to .17mm
Brandon: "We Built an AK"
The Internet: "Open the gate!"
Brandon: "It's not .50"
The Internet: "Close the gate!"
Brandon: "It's 6.5 Grendel"
The Internet: "Open the gate a little!"
open the just enough to fit but just enough to be very anoying
🤣🤣🤣
@@eewdefr Dude, are you working in my local police department by any chance? Because I swear, I have to go sideways through a very annoying maze.
an AK can literally be any weapon imo. You can even make it to look like a Shotgun. If you remove the Stock and the Magazine, it will almost looked like a SPAS-12. And maybe one day, someone will managed to make an AK-47 to a Shotgun.
@@xt1503 Isn't that just a Saiga-12?
That's what i was talking about, 6.5 grendel should be the future for AK rifles - low recoil, good BC and a lot of energy
But you can't magdump into trash like with all of this surplus 7.62 :(
Hell yeah polenar tactical!
@@ivanhorvat1995 Well... If all future aks are made with the grendel, then you teeeeecchnicallly could... in 50 years...
6.5 x 55 mauser is best 6.5
and zasatava and serbia are doing just that for military
"The longer you look at it the weirder it gets"
Nonono my friend, The longer I look at it the more I want it
yep mee too.... I want THREE!!!
Yup but call me a fudd if you want but 243 win ak sounds like a badass rifle
@@radmirmetalyogi5154 I only wanted one until seeing your comment
That was my first thought
I understand ak47 to grendal but not 8mm mouser to grendal should have gone .243 or creedmoor
* Looks at demolitia shirt * Matt looking a bit different after drinking all that vodka.
Oh hey Brandon.
AK-50.
That is all.
AK 50.
Im Down here seeing if Matt commented on the shirt
This deserves more comments
Indeed
At this point I’m tired of Brandon saying “if you want to see x tell me.” The answer is yes. It has always been yes.
Will always be yes.
He may as well just assume we all will say yes and just surprise us with random builds.
@@GhenzieDC exactly!
YES
it always has been yes and it usually will be yes
Brandon: "I built a 6.5 Grendel AK!!!"
Teacher: "Thats nice Brandon, but the instructions said "finish building AK-50", that's why you got the grade you did."
AK 6.5 needs 43.5 added to it.
Customer gun
@LabRat Knatz nah bofors for life
@@AgnotologyTV "They should be able to exit their planes and walk across a carpet of flak." - Some US ship designer ca. 1943 probably.
I hope you're proud of yourself Brandon, you've officially turned me all the way away from the AR platform. I'm full steam ahead to AK
I'm still in between. I'm running an AR47
@@davisjames8484 Let go your hate , join the dark side and become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
Yeah hard to convert when you've got 5k in rifles and parts and bs and you can field strip an AR with your penis while blindfolded
Yes comrade. For the mother land
build an ar-10 got 308 or 6.5
when youre an AK guy, but prefer the *ping* from an M1. So you get an AK that does it every shot!
The people: "We want AK-50!"
AKMan: "We made AK6.5!"
The people: "That's the wrong direction!"
"AK-21" maybe? I know: "AK-216.5"
I WAS GONNA SAY THAT TOO!
(Brandon you get distracted too much)
He'll end up making an AK in 2mm Kolibri before the 50 happens xD
Everyone: "We want AK-50!"
Brandon: *"Detour!"*
Everyone: Aww man.
one day
20mm AK :v
Everyone: "Aww man!"
Brandon: "Here's what we built."
Everyone: "Worth it!"😁👍
Just let the man finish it in his own time
8x94mm AK, it just needs a quick swap barrel
I feel like there's a hidden joke that AR platform has the Beowulf, and AK platform has the Grendel...
Shout out to everyone who gets what I'm saying
You how that clash ends up going, right?
what weapon in what caliber is the Dragon?
@@idontcareanymore2754 7.62x54r
😎
@@aqui1ifer i do. But tbh...I'm just glad people actually caught what I meant. Lmao
AK guys: "Nyet, rifle is fine!"
The AK Guy: "hehe rifle go YEET"
"Mom can we get Dragunov?"
"We have Dragunov at home"
Dragunov at home:
Don'r forget the walter ppk for 3 stealth!
Love that comment is in russian accrnt.
My Dragunov identifies as a Chinese NDM-86 or Russian TIGR!
@Anes Cecunjanin y'know it's a joke
i actually dont hate this ngl
Yugo's: "we need sniper rifle"
Yugo gun makers: "we have dragonov svd ?"
Yugo's: "nyet comrade we want sniper that sings to us"
Yugo gun makers: "say no more"
nyet is not a word among ex yugoslavian countries, comrade isnt too
1)sorry for ranting under a joke. You're free to r/wooosh me later.
2)even if we forget about their licensing problems, having a marksman/"infantry sniper" use rifle based on same system as your other troops is a good idea. Would have been great if soviets/russians themselves switched to that solution and pushed SVD more into SVDK/SVU direction for company/battalion snipers. Yes, there are also those as well as separate ones, spetznaz snipers and so on. And everyone uses different equipment.
@@dzombaj_ga what doy uo expect from someone from north america its all russian to them
@@dzombaj_ga it was for the joke to make it funnier
@@rudociliak6683 that and I don't have a fuckin clue as to what their language sounds like I just used russian for the joke to catch
nailed it!
"Because sometimes you just have to say f it and build an ak in 6.5 grendel" sun zhu probably
Everyone: wHEre'S tHe aK - 50?
Me who wants to see the KalashniBren: ...
yeah, he promised it to us.
IKR
Can we get a KalashniBren-50? Asking for a friend.
@@skoshman1 YOOOOOOOO
@@skoshman1 skoshman asking the real big boi question
Accuracy? wow, what a foreign concept
Who wouda thought huh?
What's good man?! I didn't know you watched ole papa AK guy
I didn’t either
aye i just got done watching your vid
Shots fired...just...not accurately
i fucking love how it rings after every shot
Over here in Serbia, Zastava has actually been developing the M17/M19 for years now, which is literally an AK chambered in both 7.62 and 6.5 Grendel. Hopefully the project won't die off and will get into production eventually.
When you thought his gun builds couldn’t get any more niche
bruh
A niche pastiche.
When you don't know that molot Vepr produced 6.5 Grendel for the US market and it went nowhere.
@@TheRoadhammer379 was that before we HAD 6.5 g for 24¢ per round?
Brandon now knows his true calling, building a barret 50 in .22
i wonder how will it cycle
@@demys08_75 manually
@@demys08_75 poorly
@@demys08_75 god awfully
@@seigwardofcatarina5776 Brandon: hehehe big gun go pew
The Serbian M17 has a 6,5mm and a 7,62mm interchangeable option on this Plattform!
The barrel is changeable!
It's one of those things that you didn't know how badly you need one until you learn it exists.
me: "moom, can we have dragunov?"
mom: "no. we have dragunov at home!"
dragunov at home:
I thought he was holding a dragunov even before i clicked the vid
@@vincentvandersteen9692 me too
Brandon: “ ammo is near priceless now”
Also Brandon: “mag dumps 75 rounds of 7.62 into one 2 liter coke bottle”
Head over to gunbroker, and see what Hornady 6.5 Grendel costs in 2021. Don't waste your time looking anywhere else, they're all "out of stock."
@@TheSuburban15 hornaday is $25/box local & wolf steel is $14. Used to be $19 and $6 not a full year ago. Wasn't until a few companies *cough (classic/bca) released videos mid year showing people the actual cost & reason why "that one weird friend enjoys odd calibers nobody cares about"... it's bc we could plink for 25 cents or hunt for $1 - past tense, that is.
Richard Cranium it’s 8$ a box here in Idaho 200 rounds a day 762x39
After .22, 7.62x39 is the round I feel most comfortable mag dumping. On February 9th, 2021.
@@PeaceManBro 9x18 silver/ brown bear wasn't too bad last week, dunno about right now tho.
We told you 6,5 was the way to go!
-Scandinavia
I really like this firearm. I will call it "The AK Tuner", love that sound with every shot! And yes, I'm a bench rest shooter depending on the rife. We used to shoot a lot of .220 Swift back in the hollers or Hallows for non Appalachian foke.
Make make 220 swift
I see that AK Jesus is starting off his “blursed guns” series strong.
Brandon seems more like an AK Mohammed.
"The longer you look at it, the weirder it gets"
Nah man, the longer I look, the _sexier_ it gets.
I don't even wanna know what you're into hahaha
I'd marry that beauty
It's a great cartridge for this platform! I'm glad that you can bring more attention to this combination than we've been able to. Good work on this build! That looks hella fun.
That's a bad ass looking rifle. Wasnt into aks so much but I'm starting to get into em.
I saw this and immediately thought: "Need this in Tarkov."
Get domed from 200m 😆 Fuuuuaaaaark
thought the same, a lighter weight SVD haha
You are not a true Tarkov rat unless you sneak around with an unmodded sks doming people with irons. Rat gang 🐀
AK Jesus has blessed us with a pew pew once more
A blessing from the lord
Da Kalashnikov, Domine, in diebus nostris
Quia non est alius
Qui pugnet pro nobis
Nisi tu AK lord noster
Youre welcome my sons
@@jesusmontenrgo784 HA
Duhh, we like the weird builds! Keep’er coming
I'd love more builds like this. The custom builds are very cool to see.
Everyone: "We want the AK-50!!!"
Brandon: "Ok, so who's actually gonna drop $7k and buy it ?"
Everyone: *Stares blankly, looks side to side, looks down at palmetto state AR and empty wallet
I’m not old enough to buy guns yet but I actually going start saving for a AK-50 and get my dad to buy it for me
Exactly, none of the people screaming for the ak50 are going to drop the coin, hell, most guys on here routinely claim they are brokedicks or need their wives permission. Sad
wish i had 37k in brl to buy it
@@sargentdoggo297 Dude, no... Buy yourself a 10-22 and a Honda Civic
This guy: *tries to speak for everyone but doesn't realize that a few of us are willing to have crippling debt for an AK-50
*Now it's time to finish the AK-50*
Every time someone asks, I postpone it a month
@@BrandonHerrera wait does that mean if we say not to it will make it go faster or
@@caminam78 AK-50 speedrun any%
@@BrandonHerrera Since Stalin said that its an order and not a question
@@BrandonHerrera wait, you postpone the build or the release?
So AKs can fire without the Dust Cover. Nice to know I shouted at Bethesda for no reason 😂😂
lol
Yeah, I want one of these.
Brandon - "if you like weird chit like this stay tuned"
Me - "sooo, you're not adding 6.5 to your standard production line?" 😔
“It’s not that it’s never been done but we’ve never done it...so...”.
I feel like that’s just a special kind of energy
That is literally me and my projects. I'm getting better at leather work and just made a 4 round bandolier for holding 410 shells. The last time that was popular was like 100 years ago in England. Everyone thought it was weird but I was pumped. Lol
Fun video. The Yugo M76 is one gorgeous piece of workmanship. 8mm... NICE!!!
Need to make a 6.5MM GRENDEL IN A RPK WITH A 2.0MM RECEIVER AND A HEAVY 22"BARREL Straight fluted barrel Long Range Shooting and accessories and still be able to use AK47 mags
This just in: Brandon gets hired by Keltec
lollzz
How much does the fiat weigh man ?
Omg xD
LOL.
Brandon: “we’re in North Carolina right now so we’re doing the best with what we got”
People in New York: “we’re in New York right now, I got a can about 3 yards out and we’re gonna move to 5 yards in a second”
@mowgli2071 New York just sucks in general. Greetings from Upstate
Thank you so much. Huge fan of the 6.5 Grendel.
Thank you, Brandon! Great job!
"I'm gonna try and nail some of the swingers" we all knew a joke was coming after that
8:40 😄
First learned of the concept with the 2009 Borat, the swingers scene. I remember vividly grandmother's house, adolescent hands pushing in the VJS tape I conned my G-ma into renting at the local Blockbuster-esque store. She walked in on the worst scene, perfectly timed view of the man to man naked fight scene.
"I'll try not to get too nerdy with this" ngl I like the really nerdy bits of these videos, although I might be only one of 15 people
I like them more than the shooting
Same
Nerdy bits are the fun bits
Pretty sure there's more than 15
I love the noise during cycling of that gun. Awesome build guys!
That is a great build! For ultimate sacrilege, we need a Dragunov clone chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor.
“Don’t just mag dump into trash” HEY HES TALKING ABOUT ME
@Wayde August I thought he was just talking about people who don’t shoot at targets and instead use whatever they got lying around
Me too! I like my trash pile mag dumps thank you very much
@@greyygoblinn5639 50 gal barrels work great. When youre done it makes a good firepit n when it rusts out rinse and repeat with new barrel.
Me: “Hey you should do an AK in .338 lapua!”
Brandon: “No”
*a few weeks later*
Brandon: “6.5 Grendel AK”
Hush, or he'll turn the AK50 into the The AK416.
@@EKUgrad1 Then we will turn him into AR guy... From inside out. :D
NYET 6.5 RIFLE IS FINE
You should try and check out the news coming from Serbia around these days, Zastava arms creators of the really legendary M70AB2 variant have been contracted by the MOD to build AK platforms for the military using 6.5 Grendel, it's apparently going into mass production soon as the special forces successfully tested it.
absolutely gorgeous gun, would be amazing for desert sniping.
That tune when he charges the gun is as satisfying as a Garand ping
the only thing as satisfying as the garand ping is doming a filthy commie
@@chrisloving2775 true
Weeb
Not even close
But not as nice as Chambering a round in an old K98
This rifle rings even if you miss... people will never know
The gun rings like my ears when a room goes silent... bruh
So, I'm guessing that's the flash hider thing ringing every time he shoots, also?
Missing a target and then insisting on another round because "its a matter of principle" has never resonated so deeply with me before like it has during this video...
I liked this comment them unliked it because I wanted to keep the like count at 223
"I promise I won't get into the nerdy shit"
*Lens flare eyes*
No, continue
i thought i had been subbed for over 6 months now and realized i wasn’t just now. i have at least 2-3 of your videos in suggested every couple hours i get on this app and have to watch. much love. stay shootin!
I remember seeing the 8mm was widely available. I wish they were as available as they used to be. An awesome cartridge in an awesome platform.
Brandon doing other projects instead of the ak 50 is like when you do all the side quests before the main quest
Well Hopefully The Xp From This Build Makes The Ak50 Sexier
Brandon: I'm going to make AK shoot everything except .50
Hell, he'll make one shoot .454 Casull before that!
@@RaspK I was hoping 458 Socom, I don't know why.🤔
@@guyfox1206 why doesn't he skip the .50bmg and goes straight to 20mm, or even better 8x94mm
On one hand we should probably stop giving him these ideas. On the other hand more guns!
Edit: My apologies I mean *C O N V E R S I O N S*
Christoph Friedrich that’s what I was about to say lol
absolutely love the unique guns
This is my favourite AK ever. Good cartridge and a little bit of backstory and DMR and that gas system and that flash hider that's cool but i would ultimately end up taking off.
No one:
Brandon: I made a futuristic-looking DMR-style sniper AK.
Looks nothing like the DMR
@@singhatar0912 you do realize that DMR means Designated Marksman Rifle and applies to any scoped high precision rifle used by infantry.
AK user: "I was shooting long range yesterday".
AR users: "How far did ya get?"
AK user: " i got to 200 yards but i needed a bench and a calculator."
Idk man. 200 is kinda far. My proudest moment in the military was going 38 out of 40 on the marksmanship course at ft Jackson. That's only 300m.
@logan ninefingers
Thank you for your service, no disrespect to you, but 300m= 328 yards
@@kartconner9999 that's why I was proud. You have to run it with irons on an army issue rifle. It's not about hitting MOA It's pop-up silhouettes. Most of our engagements were inside 100 yards.
@ Logan ninefingers, I get that part, but the way you worded it made it seem like you thought 300m was shorter than 200yds
I think that's a little closer than 200 yards tho. Just an observation
I was born and raised in Fayetteville NC, and I can vouch for the range part. Even the range I used to go to on Fort Bragg was only a little longer than a football field long. Anywhere you can let off some rounds is usually blocked by trees everwhere.
Best bet here would be to just climb up and down a tree stand to get the extra distance behind the hill.
I have wanted one of these forever.....I always dreamed of it as a 20" gun that took Dragonov/PSL furniture. I heard a rumor Zastava looked at it or even did some in Serbia but that might be B.S....God I want one so bad. Creedmoor/.260 would be great too. I know,I know(VEPR's) but they are rare and banned now. The gun could even be done with more of the short stroke operation like an SVD or SKS type action if need be for accuracy , if it made any difference. Good mags are also a must. I do wish someone would take it on like P.S.A on a large scale so I could grab one. I was a few years late on kit building $$$ or I would just try to build one out myself.....thank's for doing this. It is talked about often but rarely tried.....really cool.
I like how the flash hider rings as loud as the steel targets.
Honestly, i hate that sound. Once saw a video of CZ guys talking about the BREN 2. Among the other things they mentioned that the flash hider/compenstator/idk, that thing on the end of the tube spitting angry bees is constructed so it gets very little vibrations and therefore does not ring. Until now i had no idea how useful it can be.
One day Brandon will be saying "This video sponsored by Demolition Ranch."
Yes, this is why I came to the comments. I was pissed at first....
But ... I say good for Brandon! That's more money in his pocket!💪 Its good to see the gun community supporting itself. Keep up the good work!
Love the Grendel round. Absolutely the best intermediate cartridge ever made!!!
I like this gun, and the weird builds in general!
Brandon: We built an AK
everyone: I've seen this one before
Brandon: it's not .50
everyone: Just like the simulations
We weren't expecting special forces.
Someone should post this on Cursed Gun Images and see how long it takes Brandon to notice.
He would notice immediately and punish us by pushing the AK.50 build even further out of frame.
It's not cursed.
It's blessed
AK Boi being proud hes hitting a plate from 120m is just so AK-life
“Shoot the chair, shoot the chair, shoot the chair!!”
A nice "cha-ching" sound that reminds you of the money you're throwing down range!
Haha
I signed up at the Big D Bag and they said your credit with them has been revoked and anyone using your code is automatically charged $20 until the AK50 is fully functional .
Can we all acknowledge the second table for the setup for this video in view at 9:04 that right there shows us Brandon cares about us mad props for the speed run Brandon
oooh... that ring though. idk why but I really, really enjoy the sound this gun makes. I like the profile as well--weird, sure, but also a really cool build in my opinion. But then, I've always enjoyed DMR-style firearms.
Thanks for a cool video, Brandon!
"The longer you look at it, the weirder it gets." I'm not so sure about that. I kinda like it.
“It’s not like it’s never been done before, but it’s never been done by us.”
*cracks up*
Also I’d be interested in a video on your m76 or something if there’s more you want to say.
There you go, this is built on an M76 parts kit
@@thatguyoverthere9634 yeah, but he said there was stuff about his m76 that he might not be able to go over in this one.
That ringing seems like it would be a siren from hell for tinnitus
Cool idea, well executed.
Brandon: *hates cursed weapons*
Also Brandon: *Makes cursed weapons*
Aka: Unhealthy relationship.
😂😂
Only Brandon can mix multiple guns into one without making it look cursed af
oddly enough, I think the most cursed thing about this gun is the stock. He really can make any "Franken-Gun" look good.
Awesome build, very inspiring!!!
That rifle exists in Zastava older version M-17, now is a modern version M-19 modular rifle, with 6.5 Grendel and 7.62x39 for the Serbian army!
I wanna know who woke up and though “you know what I need? 6.5 AK.”
I imagine someone after a bender of vodka , gunpowder and cocaine , and too much hardbass.
@@clothar23 brown brown
Serbia, who've adopted a 6.5 AK from zastava
good times!
Good times nailing swingers
чувак, ты крут! Застава с эффективностью СВД))) с промежуточным патроном)))
That toning is perfect
The gun seriously looks like a AK, a Dragunov, and a FAL engaged in a devil's threeway and one of them dropped this baby out of their poop pocket.
That tuning-fork ring every time the action cycles, be it manually or when fired, is so satisfying.
Heh, I have an M14 airsoft replica and its flash hider makes similar noise.
yeah but i can imagine how quickly it gets old
@@grqfes Agreed. It was making my tinnitus act up on video.
You can get rid of the ring with a slight variation of the dimensions of the prongs of the flash suppressor.
Love the Grendel round. Now I want a Grendel AK lol