True I just don't like fmj rounds in 5.56. I'm not saying m193 isn't effective, just not in my top 10 for defensive loads.
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Not to be a ****, but from reading your posts, I think it would be most beneficial for you to just buy a few cases of Wolf Gold and actually shoot that 6920 that you bought.
Keep a few mags full of whatever good ammo was recommended in this thread, and just learn how to shoot and get used to the AR.
A couple thousand dollars worth of cheap training ammo (that gets used) and just a couple mags of good defensive ammo > a couple thousand dollars worth of good defensive ammo for a gun that has never even been fired.
I'm far from a professional, but I've been there before myself. Overthinking that I have to have nothing but latest greatest ammo loaded up.
We get a ton of green tip/M855 for training so I always have lots on hand for range work but keep the SHTF HD mags loaded with work issued Federal 62 grain XM556FBIT3M rounds with Black Hills Barnes 50g optimized TSX as backup. Both are superior all purpose/LE/HD rounds that you could trust with your life.
Have to mention that I chose 70g Barnes TSX for my handloads after seeing first-hand what it did to hogs. I would have no problem loading HD mags with them if two-legged critters were the problem at hand.
I just use 55 grain Federal that I buy at Walmart in the 100 round box. Nobody has ever told me it was not OK, so it is convenient, available, and less than .40 cents a round. Am i going wrong?
I just ordered another hundred of those today. I already have 90 loaded in 3 mags. They were $73 for 100 rounds and I never seen them that cheap. I know there still expensive but like you said its a great all purpose round. These are gonna be loaded for my home defense AR for sure. Any lead fouling issue's with these soft points?