Home Forums Hunting & Shooting AR and Tactical Rifles Frustrated in finding 5.56 SHTF load.

How about having a number of small stashes hid around in different places?

They could contain as little as a jug of water and a candle...
Maybe a box of 22LR an a hand full of other ammo...

What do you all think?

After doing a lot of testing and reading I decided to go 75 grain bullets for the ARs and 1/9 bolt guns I have. The first Stag I bought really loves Hornady 75 grain TAP ammo and shoots PRVI 75 grain Match just about as well.

These are a few of the targets...



Same LTR with Hornady TAP at 600 yards..



Stag at 300 with TAP...



Stag at 600 with TAP...5" group...



LTR with TAP at 300...





A friend's son was a 1st Lieutenant in charge of a firebase in Afghanistan in 2010. His unit had 136 confirmed kills...the "kid" said the real number was more like 300. He said the 62s worked fine but some SEALs who were at the base for some time left several cases of 75s behind....over 100 yards there was marked difference in how those hit reacted to the shot...

55s and 62 don't even come close in accuracy of the 75s in my guns...and that is what I have squirreled away...

Bob

Never saw any TAP ammo but I keep hearing its usually pretty accurate.

Actually have rarely shot any factory ammo.

Anyone tell me what bullet the TAP ammo uses? I've heard 75 amax, 75 bthp and a clone inbetween the two whatever that means.

the difference in TAP compared to simple AMAX handloads in the flash inhibitor coated powders.
A simple recipie of AMAX bullets and 4895 will give the same accuracy.

IIRC and its been a few years since I saw tap.... I thought the ogive of the bullet looked different than the amax I am/was used to?

Just curious here. I know a regular 75 amax to mag length is FUNKY looking and I don't recall tap looking that way.

TAP uses the BTHP, not the AMAX.

They use the V-max in the 55 gr version or at least that's what BC's macth up, .255 on the 55 V-max and .395 on the 75gr BTHP where as the 75 A-max's BC is .435

I thought I'd seen what was told to me being a 75 amax type but a very 'fat' ogive with a plastic red tip. Told to me as proprietary. But the source was LEO and that may be the answer.

BC's match is all I know...

Just curious, how many of you guys have ever had to shoot at people????? Seems like many want to talk about SHTF and Zombie bullsh%t but most want to talk about what happens on the other end when they don't have a fuc%in clue

Enlighten us.

What is up with you there blanket? Tell us more.

Straight up hardcore stone cold killer, yo.

Nope not at all, like the urban gangsta reference bullsh#t tho

SHTF is a could be real thing.

Zombies is a total hoax. Two TOTALLY different subjects therein.

In some circles, zombies is a euphemism that has replaced "sheeple" or "the unwashed".

In my circle, though, they are are just another name for spawned out pink salmon...

Please enlighten us clueless folks then blanket.

I have used 77 grain SMK/ MK262 on things and it works well. Thinking about it, I have used everything from 52 grain SMKs to 60 grain Vmax to 55 grain soft points of various manufacturers, to FMJ, etc, etc.

FMJ would be the last choice for 99% of stuff. That being said, any decent load will do fine. Pick something, standardize, zero out your guns and then stop worrying about minutia.

Anyone know of any good deals on projectiles?

Clint Smith had an article about this very thing a couple of months ago. He finished the article with this line "be who you are, not who you imagine you are". I work in a gunshop and see this same thing every day. People who have never backpacked and are 50lbs overweight thinking that they are going to throw on an ALICE pack and head for the hills. Others will talk your ear off for half and hour about their tacticool black rifle but haven't shot any farther than our 25yd indoor pistol range. Then there are those that are "ready" for TEOTWAWKI but either don't have a CCW or do but never carry because "it's too much trouble" or "I never go where I need it". C'mon, although the chances of either are remote, what is more likely to happen, the SHTF or a street mugging?
Every time someone says that they never go anywhere where they'll need a CCW, I ask them if they hunt. If they say that they do, I ask them if they always carry a gun. If the answer is again yes, I ask them why they just don't carry it on the days when they see game. Their answer is "but I never know when I'll need it" and I reply with "EXACTLY!".