Newbie help here with 6.5 Grendel

[J]

J you are still the man. Still looking to build a Grendel? Just fire formed a few more 7.62 X 39 brass into 6.5 Grendel!

It was never "looking" to build it, it was decided. It was a "this is the most expensive damn AR i have ever built, and I have to get it part by part" situation. My desired handguard just came in stock at Midway recently and I ordered it, just shipped a few days ago (damn backlog). I had been waiting for that notification for a while.

I had a completely custom barrel cut and reamed, my twist rate, my profile design, my gas port dimensions, my material and all factors done how I wanted. Had the chamber reamed with the exact bolt for all of my specs, and hand fitted to the lugs for awesome lock up. The Barrel finally got done Just after X-Mas (16 week wait since ordering) and is en-route here.

Once the last pieces get here, everything is off to my good family friends at Galley Graphics for hydrographic printing in digital desert camo (the lower is already printed, they did it when they did the FFL transfer for me), then its getting assembled. Maybe a month to six weeks out at this point. Still waiting on a bolt carrier... have the bolt taken care of but can't find a carrier to put it in. Worst case I'll pull another carrier and swap my bolt into it for a time being.

I'm also buying a used but never taken out of the home, top-o-the-line Schmidt Bender from another forum member to top it off (will also use that on my 300WM for this years Competition Dynamics / Snipers Hide 24 hour challenge).

I really cannot wait.

The Build:
PSA Lower
DD LPK
Armalite A2 Buffer Tube / Spring / Rifle Buffer
Timney 3lb skeletanized competition trigger (playing with some springs to see if I can get it closer to 2lbs and still reliable, unknown yet)
KNS Anti-Walk pins
Rainier Arms Ultra Match stripped upper (guaranteed to within .0003 perpendicularity parallelism and flatness, typical is .003)
Ergo Deluxe Grip with palm shelf
Magpul PRS Stock
Custom Barrel and Bolt, 24" mostly-bull profile, 416R Stainless Steel, match grade barrel, 3R polygonal rifling at 1:9.25 twist
Midwest Industries 15" SS Free float extended rifle hand guard
Surefire .308 Muzzle Brake
Midwest .925 Low Profile Gas Block
LaRue LT107 30MOA Rings/Mount 34mm
Schmidt Bender 5-25x56 PMII Mil-Mil with P4Fine Reticle
AccuShot Atlas BiPod
AccuShot Rear Monopod

Where possible, everything was purchased in FDE so any scratches wont show through the hydrographics. Black pieces got/get multiple coats of high-temp, high-quality FDE paint from a gun in an updraft booth before hydrographics applied.

All said, it will be WAY more expensive than any AR I have ever owned before. So it has taken a while to piece together. But it was what I wanted, and I will be sure to stretch the legs out a good deal on it.

Sorry to thread-jack there for a minute.