Have you ever had a gun Prefer Factory Ammo???

[SamT1]

I haven’t bought factory ammo for anything but 22 and shotgun in a very long time. I’m too cheap to find out!

 

[Nature Boy]

I haven’t bought factory ammo for anything but 22 and shotgun in a very long time. I’m too cheap to find out!

Neither do I since I started reloading.

 

[Newtosavage]

A few years ago, I was seduced by a stainless Ruger Hawkeye RSI (full length stock) in 7x57. It was the most beautiful rifle I ever owned. I needed some brass for hand loads, so I bought some green box Remington.

The only thing it shot worth a darn were factory green box Remington Core-lokt 140's. The only trouble with that is they were very hard to find. No hand load I ever tried would match the velocity and accuracy of those plain old Remington Core-lokt. I would have tried hand loading those but the 140 grain 7mm bullets were discontinued.

I finally sold that rifle for much less than I paid for it. I miss it some days but not that often. My Tikka 7mm-08 is such a great hunting rifle that it was a good change of pace.

 

[hdwhit]

Have you ever had a gun Prefer Factory Ammo???

No.

But then, I have never put enough factory ammunition through any gun to know whether the gun "preferred" it.

 

[dartor]

For the 22-250 in my Savage Axis (Timney trigger added). I've had excellent results with H4895, Varget, and Alliant RL15. I've tried H380 and never could find a good load. I'm using Hornady 55gn V-Max bullets.

 

[Slamfire]

It's not at all uncommon for shooter/reloaders to suffer withdrawal when they discover their .308 loads don't equal the accuracy of Federal .308 Match. Even when using the same bullet and cases.

Army Marksmanship shooters set a number of National Records with 223 Federal Gold Medal Match. I know, I talked to one who had. If you can reload ammunition as good as Federal Gold Medal Match, you have done something.

 

[<*(((><]

Yes, my mossberg MVP will shoot Hornady 55gr SP into .75” at 100 yards if I do my part. I’ve tried to duplicate the load but to no avail.

 

[Hondo 60]

Never had one that preffered factory ammo, but i had a 9mm that just couldnt hit the target.

Got another 9 mil that doesn' like 115gr bullets.
It jams 2 or3 times per mag.
124 gr, any profile, cycles perfectly. Weird.

 

[Orcon]

I bought the Mrs. a 2nd hand Ruger M77 Hawkeye (early 2000 vintage) in 270 Win last year for a hunting rifle. It shoots the 130 grain Fusion ammo so well I haven't really bothered doing much reloading for it. When the ammo is around the 20 dollar mark we just buy a few boxes.