I hate buying ammo. The one-time use of it is kind of frustrating to me, even though all of the guns and skills in the world are obviously useless without it. I also am having trouble finding a mix between high quality ammo and value. For a while, the 62gr Win OTM stuff looked damn good for the price, but it went out of stock before I got some back pay that could be allocated towards a good amount of it. I was sold on reloading and about to jump in right before sandy hook, but we all know what happened there. Various reasons ever since have kept me away but now, I’m not sure what to buy and it’s pushing me towards once again wondering about reloading.
My current mindset is to have three different rounds on hand, though I have considered dropping to two.
1. HD round which is 75gr Gold Dot for reasons. This stuff is obviously expensive and seems to be out of stock more than not, but I have like 2-3 mags of it on hand, after having grouped and zeroed a few of my ARs with it.
2. Middle ground. The idea is a round of good quality and consistency with reasonable intermediate and terminal ballistics but at a price that wouldn’t dissuade me from buying. Something that is decent at stopping people but I could use at an LPVO class or longer three gun match out to 400 is really the goal (the latter being more likely, therefore of more concern). I wanted the Win 62gr OTM for this role but when it sold out, was looking towards the CBC 77gr 262 clone. I have repeatedly considered using this category of ammo to replace my HD round because I’m open to the trade off of barrier penetration for having one round that all of my guns are zeroed with and is capable whether it’s shooting armed home invaders at 10m inside the house, taking a 350m shot at a competition/class, or taking a 200m head shot from one of my boogaloo stash mags. I’ve got about 10 of those, which is part of the reason I’m not trying to spend Gold Dot money for that many mags.
3. Training/plinking/short range competition ammo. I bought a few cases of AE MSR with the rebate and was content with that choice until I shot my first three gun match and realized they don’t allow 5.56 in lighter than 68gr because the ranges are short and the steel is at 100m max. So standard .223 it is.
So, all that being said, I’m having trouble finding that middle ground ammo. CBC SMK is the cheapest 262 clone that seems favored, but Sam’s last email said that it’s being discontinued so that’s a bummer. It’s also more than I want to pay. I know asking 262ish performance at about 35 cents per round isn’t very realistic from factory ammo, so I’m wondering if anyone has an idea of how expensive it’d be to handload it or something similar, right now.
Tax for the thesis wall of text is the two rifles that would shoot it the most. The BCM w/ MK16 will get a Viper 1-6 or identical Razor JM-1 once I have a shorty upper to put the EOTech on.
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