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Posted: 12/13/2007 1:22:51 PM EDT
| I'm curious if anyone is using practice rounds for go to ammo. I know, kind of stupid question but with the prices of ammo these days I was wondering if anyone is doing it. I also understand how much is your life worth. I'm not saying cheap paper punching UMC stuff, but something midrange ammo. What are some of you guys using? |
| It's good to use some of your SHTF ammo for practice every now and then to be sure your gun likes to ingest it without difficulty. I prefer recent surplus ammo like LC M193 or Guat M193 as my SHTF ammo too, which gives a higher degree of confidance that it will feed reliably and go boom. |
this sums it up, well said. MY SHTF ammo is New 5.56 Guat brass, CCI450 primers, 24.5 TAC, Nosler 77g w/cann pill. each one hand charged and exactly same OAL. Better/as good as BH red 5.56  |
Same here. I've found that out to 100 yds or thereabouts, there really isn't enough difference in POI from one load to the next to worry about it like I did at one point. So I'll use whatever is on hand that isn't dangerous (such as crap reloads from sources known to be problematic). I admit, I am liking the Barnaul 55 and especially 62 gr stuff for practice these days. It's cheap, relatively speaking, and I seem to prefer it to Wolf. |
I have 2k of '92 radway stashed right now but I'm really happy with the prvi m193, a very acceptable medium between price and performance. Cheap enough for plinking and and good enough to hunt shtf varmints. I have bought a lot of the prvi in the last couple months. Though I've not had a single failure from around 1,300 rounds of the radway I'm not sure I want to take 15 year old ammo and depend on it for another 15 years....I'm thinking to stash the a few cases of my PRVI and start shooting off the radway..ymmv....but I do think it's important that you shoot more than a once in awhile function check of your shtf brand of choice; train as you fight. |
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SHTF for me? Yeah, I'd like to say Black hills, M855/M193 from lake city, etc... But really, If I'm there - if it goes bang and functions in the firearm, I'm happy. I have a first line of Hornady TAP (seriously though - only 2 magazines, I don't have the money to buy more); a second line of Black Hills 75 grain - again, only my tac-vest load. Then it is Prvi, Wolf, Barnul and even Federal 50grn. varmint hollow points. That is all that I can afford that goes bang. I have a lot of ammo, just not all that blue blood stuff. |
Don't worry; hits are the only thing that truly counts. Yes, there is some really good SD ammo out there, certainly better than Remington UMC, but I really doubt that with a center-mass hit any BG would say, "Oh, he's only using Remington UMC!" |
20 and 30 round mags also help out! |
UMC patterns better than Wolf. 
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Patterns??? Are you shooting this stuff from your shotgun?
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