Left the 300 Blackout camp....

[kosmolinekid]

Reminds me of when I bought my first Deer Rifle. My friends had 7mm Mags and .270s and I chose the the old '06 . They both asked why as the 7mm and the .270 were flatter shooters . Easy I said Ammo availability . I can be in Bum Frick Idaho and they will have 30.06 there for sure . My new to shooting friends ask me what caliber they should get for their toys. Easy i said anything the Military or Government uses . It may be lean right now but in the future there will be Surplus ammo and brass . Hopefully !

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[imarangemaster]

Reminds me of when I bought my first Deer Rifle. My friends had 7mm Mags and .270s and I chose the the old '06 . They both asked why as the 7mm and the .270 were flatter shooters . Easy I said Ammo availability . I can be in Bum Frick Idaho and they will have 30.06 there for sure . My new to shooting friends ask me what caliber they should get for their toys. Easy i said anything the Military or Government uses . It may be lean right now but in the future there will be Surplus ammo and brass . Hopefully !

I can regularly pick up 223/5.56 brass at backwoods shooting spots. Lately I picked up 500 once fired 223 left by a shooter who was there with me who was bragging about only paying $1 a round! That was at the height of the hysteria shortages and gouging prices. Reloading the 5.56, I haven't paid more than $0.35 a round for ammo, whether factory (or the cost on my components during the shortages). Fortunately 55 Grain .224 FMJBT projectiles are fairly cheap. I still have about 800 55s, with about the same number of CCI #41 primers and 3 pounds of IMR-4198 waiting to be loaded up.