What ammo type do you use in your go-to rifle?

Federal 55gr JHP, one magazine.

M193

XM 193's or Winchester Q3131's

M1 Carbine, hollow soft point:

http://www.winchester.com/Products/rifle-ammunition/super-x/hollow-soft-point/Pages/X30M1.aspx

A mag of hornady 155 tap red box near my socom

I have mags loaded with XM193 and Hornady TAP, both in 55gr.

The mag in my "go to" carbine is loaded with Hornady 5.56mm 75 gr "T2*" JHPs. I got probably one of the last boxes ammotogo had. Really wish I had bought more than just one box before Hornady cracked down.

Other than that, I've got a bunch of Prvi 75 gr JHPs, and Wolf 75 gr JHPs.

168 grain Hornady A-max, 49 grains of IMR4895, and a CCI BR primer gives me MOA at almost 2700 fps

No option for mine, handloads with cast bullets. A Marlin 1894 Cowboy 20" loaded with 240gr SWC's over 10.0gr Unique for 1450fps. Easy shootin' and will kill anything in the lower 48.

"Go to" and "trouble" sounds like thinly-disguised home defense. At such most-probable distances, any old bullet is gonna make a mess inside a Bad Guy. While my preference is a hunting bullet, it's not something I'm gonna worry about. Even GI bullets do bad things to coyote innards inside of a hundred yards.

Soft or hollow point 54R. FMJ is not the best choice for anything other than target shooting.

125 grain NOSTLER BALLISTIC TIP .308 in my ar-10 carbine, 20 round mag

and there are a bunch of mags with different types of ammo in the bag and the drawyers. I have mags with 147 ball, 150 grain ttsx barnes, a mag with 180 grain barnes MRX, and a mag with steel AP rounds.

I'm pretty sure if it's a threat approaching, the 125s are going to mess somethin' up bad... Otherwise, I'll switch the mag and use whatever round would work better for the scenario.


I do have some tracer rounds for when I'm attacked by propane tanks.

For any sort of social breakdown, natural disaster, SHTF scenario, I rock 147 gr FMJs in my M1A. They may not be as accurate as some other ammunition types, nor do they have the terminal effect of expanding rounds, but they are cheaper and easier to buy in bulk, and they allow me to defeat a wider assortment of barriers. If I have to disable a vehicle on my rural property, come against someone wearing body armor, or taking cover behind a brick wall, I am more confident in my ability to engage those targets with M80 ball. In this way, I choose FMJs for many of the same reasons the military does--it's cheaper and easier to buy/produce in bulk, adequately accurate (my M1A will do 2 MOA with cheap S&B or WWB FMJs), and while it does trade terminal effectiveness for penetration, it has proven to be a capable fight stopper.

I do keep a magazine of 150 gr JSPs on hand, however. These are the same rounds I hunt with in this rifle.

And this is not to be confused with what I keep on hand in my defensive carbine--an AK with a reflex sight loaded with Uly JHPs.

158gr Softpoints for Winny 94.

My 5.45x39 Saiga is loaded with Bulgarian FMJ 53gr 7N6. The Afghans called the 7N6 ammo the "poison bullet" for a reason. Here is a link to Brass fetcher's ballistic gel testing on this ammo http://www.brassfetcher.com/545x39mmBulgarian53grFMJ.html

Prvi Partisan M193. 55 grain FMJ.

170 grain Remington soft points in my Winchester 32 Special model 94. It may be an oldie but it hits what it's pointed at all the time.

50 Gr Vmax, in a MINI 14,and a Savage bolt, works for varmints of all kinds.

1 OZ 3" Sabot Slugs Copper Solid, will put a stop to anything walking or crawling... out of my 870 with rifled barrel...

I use Hornady TAP.

What ever I have handy/loaded at the time.

My go to carbine is ar, I keep a couple mags of hornady tap 62gr urban rifle and a mag of tap 75gr hollowpoints nearby. If I need more than that, the rest of my mags are fmj.

I use pmags and have them color coded by ammo type.

I have several "go-to" rifles (though all follow my shotgun in priority). The M1 Carbine is my primary and is kept loaded with 15rnds. of handloaded 100gr. hollow soft-points. My secondary is an M17 (.223Rem.) loaded with 20rnds. of 55gr. Hornady TAP (with additional magazines containing HP fodder). The VZ.58 (7.62x39mm) is kept loaded with Wolf Mil. Classic HP, but this one is unlikely to see service unless something goes awry.

223 Wolf reloaded with Hornady 75 OTM bullet

or 223 Black Hills 68 OTM