Plinking Ammo 5.56 What do you use?

[Lamented]

What 5.56 ammo do you plink with?
Price, Accuracy, Does it run clean or dirty, any problems with performance etc?

Thanks

[Nightstalker865]

Wolf Gold .223 for me. It's cheap and loaded to 5.56 spec.


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[Zane1844]

Wolf Gold, PMC Bronze.

Price is good, accuracy is fine. I am not sure if they are dirtier than other ammo because I don't care. No issues with either.

[davidz71]

PMC Bronze 55 gr. seems to work well when I'm not shooting SS109 or CBC 77 gr.

[pinzgauer]

Shooting up the last of my PMC bronze, converted over to wolf gold 5.56 now

Still occasionally shoot some steel case (Tula?) In my beaters.

Also shoot some ppu brass case (academy monarch house label)

[Wake27]

Whatever brass is cheapest. I've never understood why people get hung up on plinking ammo. SD, or training ammo sure, but plinking is plinking to me.


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[themonk]

Wolf Gold

[MegademiC]

Whatever brass is cheapest. I've never understood why people get hung up on plinking ammo. SD, or training ammo sure, but plinking is plinking to me.


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This, as long as something isn't wrong with it (independence ) I buy the cheapest brass stuff I find. If I want accuracy, I load up 50 gr AE or 77gr privi.

[Kdubya]

Generally, I seem to find the best sales on m855 and m193. But I'll pick up just about any brass cased I find around or below the 30¢ per round mark.

As far as accuracy out of mil-spec ammo I've found, and have seen others who agree, that IMI (not the Independece label, although I've not had an problems with Independence) and PMC X-Tac are the most accurate. YMMV on those particular rounds. But as some others have already said, range ammo is exactly that; range ammo. Unless it is remarkably unreliable or inaccurate in your particlar rig, you don't need to be too picky. Now, doing something like only shooting M855 to match a preferred SD load that's also of the 62(ish) grain variety may be wiser than just looking for the cheapest functional range ammo. At least your trajectories then remain somewhat consistent. Outside of matching Range and SD Bullet weights and ballistics, and finding one that goes bang every time, there's not much else I need when it comes to Range ammo. If the price is right, I buy it.

[cougar_guy04]

PMC Bronze, Remington UMC, PP M193, or Federal 100rd boxes fromWalMart . . . whatever the cheapest, decent .223 55gr available is what I run for plinking/3-gun/whatever.