Yeah, probably not the right place for it
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That said, I tend to avoid anything other than brass cased ammo. That rules out Tula, Wolf (except for Wolf Gold), Barnaul, Brown/Silver Bear, and CCI Blazer Aluminum. Part of that is due to feeling like I'm "wasting" cases that I can't reload. Part of it is just bad experiences I've had with it (mostly the lacquer coating used on some of them gumming up my chambers and causing cases to stick).
I also don't like to shoot reloaded/"remanufactured" ammunition unless I personally loaded it myself.
That said, outside of those quips, I'll use whatever is cheap for target fodder. The regular old red-box Federal at Wal-mart typically tends to be the cheapest locally available stuff. If I'm mail ordering Sellier & Bellot or Prvi Partizan tend to be priced fairly low. A few local gun shops also tend to stock Magtech ammo which is often priced lower in shops (I don't see their loaded ammo as often online though).
Generally though unless I'm just out or don't have much lead time, I try to load my own - even for 9mm. I've got an abundant amount of extra cases available, and since I shoot mostly platted bullets which are pretty cheap (I bought a few thousand Rainier bullets a while back - working through those but when they're gone I'll probably buy more from Berry), my per round cost is a lot less than factory ammo. Yeah it takes time to load them up and "time is money", but as my grandmother used to say "I've got a lot more time than I do money."
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