Thread: best factory ammo t3 308

sorry 223nut went to answer but hit in your post instead , that's why you see the Jakewire edit bit

What I said was
70$ for 20 is probably why we reload

couple off years ago i could get my ammo cost plus %5. $37 a box and $33 a box for hornady 223 brass training ammo. thats with steves wholesalers already putting his cut on it by it goes to the retailer.

I had great results with the Federal 130Grn stopped pigs pretty good too

Cheers Antz

Fed blue box 150grn get my nod!

I saw a box of buffalo river Ammo: 308 loaded with 135 gr Sierra hp projectiles. They could be the ticket for all the varmint to small size deer .

No ones said ppu and highland! You bunch of ammo snobs. It's only a tikka! Lol
Start at the cheapest and see if it shoots, My last 308 shot privi to .8 and knocked animals down well.

Somme rifles just dis like certain brands and weights of ammo, the same make and model on a different one might just love it. Same old story, if your rifle shoots them crap doesnt mean its crap ammo. You do hear of some ammo thou that seems to have a certain history one way or the other. In 308 have heard far too many times above average how FED Fusion groups crap for instance and have heard the Hornady 150sst groups very well above average as examples.
Sometimes you pay for what you get, the Hornady 150ssts at 59 a box around here i recken are worth every penny

Originally Posted by deer243

Somme rifles just dis like certain brands and weights of ammo, the same make and model on a different one might just love it. Same old story, if your rifle shoots them crap doesnt mean its crap ammo. You do hear of some ammo thou that seems to have a certain history one way or the other. In 308 have heard far too many times above average how FED Fusion groups crap for instance and have heard the Hornady 150sst groups very well above average as examples.
Sometimes you pay for what you get, the Hornady 150ssts at 59 a box around here i recken are worth every penny

Damn that's cheap, paid $72 for my last box of superperformance

Originally Posted by 223nut

Damn that's cheap, paid $72 for my last box of superperformance

Whatever you do, don't do what I see everyone at the range doing which is sighting your new rifle with crap package deal scope in with this gold plated ammo. Buy the cheapest crap you can find. Sight it in with that and then use a couple of rounds of superperformance to confirm that the point of zero is the same. I have seen people burn through three boxes of $75 a box ammo just trying to get on paper.

Or better yet, take your couple of hundred bucks and buy some basic reloading gear.

Originally Posted by 223nut

Damn that's cheap, paid $72 for my last box of superperformance

I dont buy it at HnF

3tikkas and a Sako I have played with in 308 all shot fed blue box WELL under an inch at a hundy.

Yet to meet a 308 that doesent shoot belmonts 130gr hollow point well and its cheap....or it was last time I bought it.

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During my days of buying factory ammunition for various rifles I always found fiocchi shot very well in everything, their SST load in 270 is a bit slower than superformance but shot like a laser in my T3, savage 116, and M77

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

During my days of buying factory ammunition for various rifles I always found fiocchi shot very well in everything, their SST load in 270 is a bit slower than superformance but shot like a laser in my T3, savage 116, and M77

Great ammo, the SST in .270 and .30 cal is reliable

It's the projectiles that make the most difference in ammo so choose something with a decent projectile i.e. a Sierra HPBT or something with a fancy plastic tip. This type of ammo normally isn't the cheapest.