One ammo many guns? The simple life.

Well, Ive got, umm, I think 10 .30-06 rifles including Garands, Springfields, Remingtons, a Weatherby, etc. I buy 150gr Federal (mainly cuz its cheap and always available), and sight them all in with the same round.
My two .243 Savage 99s get fed 100gr Winchester PowerPoint pretty much exclusively.
And I try to stick to 110gr. Seller and Bellot fmj for my carbines.....
So ya, I guess I do.

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I have decided that I'm sick and tired of having multiple deer hunting firearms sighted in with gun specific ammuniton. It's tiresome trying to remember which gun is sighted in with which ammo especially with having a few guns that rarely see the outside of a safe and their ammo needs not fresh in my mind. I'm going to the one good hunting ammo for all guns (within that caliber of course) line of thinking. Accuracy may not be peak across the board but it is good enough to hit a pie plate vital zone out to 200 yards every time. Do any of you guys do something similar?

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I don't find it hard to recall which ammo is best - I just keep a box or two inside the case.....

mikle76 said:

I have decided that I'm sick and tired of having multiple deer hunting firearms sighted in with gun specific ammuniton.

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My first thought is, why multiple deer rifles? I have many, many firearms, but only one that I use for bambi and speed goats, a 700 BDL in .25-06. I do have an 8mm mag for elk & moose, and the two both go with me on every trip to back each other up in case I take a spill and knock a scope or something. I guess I just don't understand having multiple deer rifles, especially chambered the same

I have a couple hunting rifles. My method is to find ammo the gun likes, zero in, and
then get a dozen boxes of that ammo. But it's only two rifles, two ammo selections.

My Rem 243 and Ruger 308 both like win power points. My 30-30 (that I never use) shoots privi partisan the best.

I do handload for all my centerfire stuff and I find great pleasure when I wring that last bit of accuracy out of a particular firearm. I just ID the firearm on the box of ammo along with the load particulars. I see it as no big deal.

I have lots of rifles in lots of calibers, with many different brands/bullets/loads that I like to shoot for each... except for the Garands (surplus .30-06), the k98 (surplus 7.92x57) and SMLE (surplus .303), these are just for fun. Oh, and the .300 Weatherby is strictly a Weatherby brand ammo proposition for now because I got a lot of Weatherby Ammo with it and a new box costs a ton at Bass Pro.

I like a variety, I like shooting and finding what shoots best, and I like reloading so getting once fired brass is cool, too.

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I for example have 3 .223 caliber firearms. A bolt action, an AR and a single shot handgun. I like using a different guns for the same animal. It gives me a reason to own more guns.

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The only justification you need is desire and the means to purchase I have ten .223/5.56 guns, and only use one of them for critter gettin'.

Why should you not have as many as you like in any caliber as long as you can purchase them. I left out whether you could afford them,Cash or credit no matter as long as you use unsecured credit they'll be yours. Hoarding guns is a wonderful thing. Groceries no problem if you have guns,electricity,city water,TV, internet,phone,car,are all luxuries. With guns plows are even an extra. With them food is just about a shot away. Get water from the spring and if cold worries you a fat spouse will keep you warm.
A 4 wheel drive,4 wheeler and good flat bottom boat mighty handy lol
More ammo, more ammo, more ammo. If you never shoot, no fun,no food.

I keep a note card with my rifles to remind me what ammo what gun is sighted in for. It stays in the case with the firearm. I also track round counts with it as well.

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I keep a note card with my rifles to remind me what ammo what gun is sighted in for. It stays in the case with the firearm. I also track round counts with it as well.

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Good idea! Same here only I keep my ammo notes in my reloading manual in each corresponding cartridge section.

I tape a reference not on the top of my scope of each rifle what ammo it is sighted in with.

I tape a ammo reference on each loaded AR15 magazine.

I have the .22,.243 and the 45/70 for all my hunting needs. The rest goes to my 30 plus handguns in twenty something calibers.

One 30-06 that's it for me.

I only have one 30-06 but I about screwed up a hunt because a had the wrong ammo in a factory box. Not the wrong caliber, but the wrong load. The difference was off the paper.
I couldn't believe it it either.
So the OP has a valid idea in my opinion.

I did veer off the subject the OP brought up. I also load to the sweet tooth of all my center fire rifles, and pistols. Labels are a must when you have two or more of the same caliber. I have two in 30\06 and two in 300 Win Mag. One of each are Belgium BARs and I load those a light diet for ease on their actions. One of the others is an A Bolt in 300 Win Mag and I have got it much more accurate than I am capable of myself. The other is an old Remington 742 30/06 and with open sights I use it for rainy day stalks and brushy hunting it will eat whatever you feed it within 100 yards at least. I only have two pistols in the same caliber and one is a tube fed Henry Mares Leg and the other an 8 inch barrel wheel gun. I have to crimp for the tube fed Henry so the other gets the same food. It could be bad if I loaded differently for the 44s if labels got crossed up as in my demise with some sad singing and slow walking for the family to do. Like a lot of y'all have mentioned labeling load data and keeping good notes is handy not to mention the safety factor which is priority number one. This really is a serious discussion so please pardon me for my earlier humorous remarks. I guess a redneck cracker might be looked over, I hope I offended no one.

No worry about wrong ammo. I load my own.

One deer rifle suffices for me. It is a high quality scoped light mountain rifle in 6.5x55. Very accurate and flat enough indeed. The recoil of a .243 with the ballistics of a .270.

In my younger days a pie-plate accuracy at 200 yards would have been fine, but it is too easy to do much better - no reason for it. But, if you are shooting with iron sights I understand. Bottom line ________ are you happy? Good enough then!!

Most reloaders paste a data sheet inside the ammo box. I've made my own which includes bullet type, powder, charge, primer, brass, etc. I have several rifles but they all use the same .223 cartridge. Each rifle has a custom load so I always know from the data sheet which rifle that ammo is for and the exact components in that load.

If you don't reload you can use the same method. Buy some plastic ammo boxes and make your own data sheet. On that sheet put the information that is relevant to you like mfg, bullet weight, sight in range and the rifle that ammo is for. Paste it inside the ammo box.

No need to use ammo from the same mfg.

mikle76 wrote:
Do any of you guys do something similar?

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I now load for five different .223 rifles, but I encountered your problem decades ago when I started loading for just two.

I worked up a load that gave me what I regarded as optimal performance between the two rifles. It consisted of a Hornady 60 grain spire soft or hollow point bullet on top of 20.3 grains of IMR-4198. Note that per Hornady #4 this is a below-maximum load, but it is above maximum per later editions of the Hornady manual.

I settled on an accuracy standard of whether I could put at least nine out of ten rounds into the circular divot on the side of a gallon milk jug at 100 yards firing offhand (not off a bench).

During the component mini-drought of the early 1980's, I could no longer get IMR-4198 and so had to redevelop the load twice to match the performance of the original. In both cases, the objective was to mirror the point of impact of the original load. I wanted to be able to pick up any 223 round, put it any gun I had and know that - within my physical limits as a shooter - the round would end up at the same place.

Now enters plain, simple not so common anymore common horse sense. Well put simple and so easy. Hdwit you and folks like you are the best thing going on. I am no slobbering genius myself but the most complex problems facing us in these times most often are solved by the simplest solutions.
You and 434 more in congress like you would really make a difference for all concerned.
Another 100 in the Senate and we might be able to have any gun we like as long as we apply that logic liberally.

I hate having the same caliber for different rifles. I have five 30-06 rifles. And three 308 rifles. Four in 45 Colt. I experimented and found ammo that shoots good in each. The Garand and 1873 being the only exceptions. It can be done.

I will have to say I sympathize with our OP. I reload for several rifles and it gets really confusing when you have 3 of the same caliber....like my three .204s. It's not too bad if you keep good records and label every box. I shoot deer and long distance p-dogs with the same .243; just use different loads and different bullets. Oh crap....I just bought another .243. Weird, my font size shrank.....