6.5 Grendel
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November 8th, 2011 at 11:01 am
I always wondered what his angle was…
November 8th, 2011 at 11:15 am
He probably gave up the Trademark because other Manufacturers didn’t want to pay the Licensing Fee anymore. Guess when the well runs dry….
November 8th, 2011 at 11:30 am
Five years too late, Mr. Alexander.
Talk about shooting yerself in the foot …..
November 8th, 2011 at 11:53 pm
There was never a licensing fee. Before you comment, get the facts.
The only requirement was that you agree to maintain the chamber dimensions, without changing it.
Too late, hardly. Wolf makes cheap ammo, Hornady makes ammo, lots of other manufacturers make rifles, including JP, J&T, etc.
Name another cartridge that was introduced by a tiny manufacturer and has been SAAMI certified and has done so in the last decade. Not one introduced by a SAAMI member, but one introduced from outside the circle.
It’s actually a remarkable feat to pull off in 7 years, by an outsider, and by a company that has never employed more than about a dozen people.
Top that off with their recent hiring of Wayne Holt, who has held senior management positions at Glock, Hornady and Sig Sauer.
November 9th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
So what is the point of the SAAMI designation? I mean from a product-expansion aspect? Does this mean we will see more guns chambered in it?
November 9th, 2011 at 1:46 pm
It means that any manufacturer can now manufacture rifles or ammunition without having to sign a licensing agreement. The licensing agreement basically stated that you agreed to build rifles chambered with the Grendel chamber, and to build ammunition which appropriately fit that chamber. There never was a fee for doing so. Bill Alexander just didn’t want multiple slightly different chambers floating around which all called themselves 6.5 Grendel.
Now SAAMI has accepted those specifications, and anyone (technically any SAAMI member, but that essentially means anyone because they never police it) can now build rifles to that spec and call them Grendels. Anyone can build ammunition to that spec and call it Grendel ammunition.
The trademark simply protected the name, and was an agrrement to build rifles to the specs that Bill Alexander used.