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I have fired a factory round in 40 years except 22’s. I’m good on components for a while, could use some Barnes 338, 160 gr TTSX

I don't understand why anyone would shoot factory ammo anyway. Reload.

The only "factory" ammo I shoot is mil-surplus, shotgun, and 22. The only factory centerfire rifle ammo I've shot in years was a box of Hornady 6.5 Creedmoor, and that was just to use as a check to see how accurate my reloads were...........and they were more accurate than the factory.

Biggest fugging hack job I ever seen ....
And fugging corrected.
Aint the 1st time I corrected a " smithy,s work"

Amazing what is passed off as professional work.

Not just around here .
But over the entire country.

If everyone would up their prices similarly, the shortages and panic would be over much sooner.

Those Federal Blue Box .30-06 150's shoot great out of my '56 Win FWT.

The one Super Walmart around here that did have ammo now suddenly has nothing in the case when I stopped in to buy a couple ammo cans end of last week.

I'd just be happy with some 30-06 brass. I guess I need to take some ammo back and "unload it".

I did the same. Sitting on a mountain of $5 blue box ammo to feed my $250 Weatherby.

I reload for everything I shoot except my 6.5x55. I cannot get a handload to beat the accuracy I get out of the factory 131 gr load from Seller & Bellot. Doesn't matter how much I tried, it just likes that round. So I waited until Natchez had a sale on it and grabbed a bunch of it at $9.99 a box. Got enough to last quite a while and the brass is reloadable so if I get to the point I can't get any more of it, I can simply load for it since I already have dies.

It's been at least ten years since I shot a round of factory ammo. That was when I found a good deal on a Winchester XTR in .270. I bought a couple of boxes of Winchester 150 gr. ammo and took the rifle that ammo and a box of my normal .270 reloads. Rifle turned out to be a real sleeper regarding accuracy. The worst group it did that day was .80" and that's probably because the barrel was quite hot. That rifle is definitely a keeper.
Paul B.

I have a bit different philosophy regarding hand loads and factory ammo.

Most of what I shoot is my hand loads. But, I buy Remington factory ammo as close to the bullet type and weight I want to load. I sight in with that, then I tweek my own loads to shoot the same.

It's nice to be able to run into Grunt N Fart's Gas & Go in Rabbit Hash Wyoming and find a box of 30-06 180gr CoreLokt PSP, because I left the ammo bag back home on the coffee table. My 3-digit 1936 Win Mdl 70 '06 always comes along just in case when I take off big game hunting.

Well crap, I wish I had seen that post earlier. I went to the big town today, Sportsman's was about out of everything, but there was some Barnes bullets in larger calibers, and some Weatherby 30-378 loaded ammo along with some .50BMG stuff too. I'd have looked for some for you there.

Isn't it slightly rude to talk about 30-06 ammo... on MLK day?

You guys will be talking about Remington 760 is here shortly won't you?

Years back Midway had a sale on some RWS 6.5x55 closeout stuff. I grabbed a few boxes of each type. They were going for $18-$20 or so a box, cheap for that stuff. I have an extra barrel in 6.5 for that '06 rifle I have and it really likes that Dopplecore bullet of theirs, really likes it. When I went back online a couple days later there was no more left. Shoots so good, like you say, why reload?

Of course, I can't use it for hunting here in Kommiefornistan, so it sits in the ammo box. Should work during the revolt if needed, I'll swap barrels out when I run out of '06 ammo.