what is you favorite bulk 7.62 nato ammo

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For me in that order of surplus.

mjsdwash said:

I was surprised to find its Tulammo. When I bought an AR 10, I added a few boxes because they were $6.00. They worked, and hit what they were supposed to. Then I bought 500 from TargetsportsUSA for around $7.00/box, and Walmart discontinued their scary ammo, and I bought a bunch at $5.00/box, which was a loss for them. All worked good, 50 yards grouped 1" or so, not too dirty. Boxer primed, but steel case. 150gr, chronoed 2500 FPS from an 18" barrel. Smells like Russian ammo though.

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I'm getting similar results with Brown Bear JSP, solid 2 MOA ammo, biggest issue is vertical stringing, but it works and I have lots of fun with it shooting 4 MOA steel plates at 300 yards. IF the wind is not too bad I can usually hit 2/3 on the 2 MOA plate. If I recall I paid under $0.30 per round for the case of it when the good surplus mentioned above dried up around here.

I sure do miss the 1280 round "lockers" for ~$220.

The best recent surplus I've used was headstamp FNM, Malaysian it was claimed if I recall, came in cardboard boxes packed in GI-style metal ammo cans, I think it was about $0.40 per round.

wally said:

I'm getting similar results with Brown Bear JSP, solid 2 MOA ammo, biggest issue is vertical stringing, but it works and I have lots of fun with it shooting 4 MOA steel plates at 300 yards. IF the wind is not too bad I can usually hit 2/3 on the 2 MOA plate. If I recall I paid under $0.30 per round for the case of it when the good surplus mentioned above dried up around here.

I sure do miss the 1280 round "lockers" for ~$220.

The best recent surplus I've used was headstamp FNM, Malaysian it was claimed if I recall, came in cardboard boxes packed in GI-style metal ammo cans, I think it was about $0.40 per round.

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The nice thing about the steel case, its 2c/round more than the cheapest reloads i can make. I can load 125 TNT,s with H335, on range pickups for 31c, buying in bulk, but for 33c that steel case works fine, with no effort vs 2 minutes per round to load. That said, i loaded some with win 748, and shot 1/2' 5 shot hole at 50 yards, vs the 1-1/2-2" with the Tul. But its just a fun gun anyway.

Feeding an M1A steel cased combloc fodder is like wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt to a 4th of July picnic

Robbins290 said:

Stay away from ZQI. horrible stuff.

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I like ZQI. It shoots consistent for me. Not tack driving accurate but good plinking ammo.

Nature Boy said:

Brass is thin and not even worth reloading.

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I have reloaded four or five hundred rounds of the MKE brass and have had absolutely no issues. It isn't as heavy as the LC brass but is on par or heavier than a lot of .308 brass. I load a lot of Speer 150gr BTSP with H4895 using this brass and get really good accuracy. Some of these cases have been reloaded multiple times.

Kind of a mute point though. You can't find this ammo anywhere anymore. Don't think Turkey is that happy with us at the moment.

Portuguese then Hirtenberg.

AB86.

Skeptic13 said:

Kind of a mute point though. You can't find this ammo anywhere anymore. Don't think Turkey is that happy with us at the moment.

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It has less to do with politics and more to do with economics and the strength of the dollar