ORIGINAL: bigmatty65
The steel cased ammo isnt very accurate out of any rifle, so i would limit myself to a close shot with the steel cased stuff. 100 yards would probably be the maximum range unless your rifle happens to like the stuff. the winchester 123 grain softpoints seem to shoot better out of the SKSs, AK and a ruger 77 that ive seen shot at the local range.
i cant explain any shortage, hey i never knew there was one. theres a gun show coming up in april ill let ya know about the situation up here in Canada.
Supreme accuracy isn't too huge a deal for me. My local range doesn't even extend past 100 yards. I'm really just looking for a centerfire I can feed for cheap without having to reload for and have fun blowing up pumpkins at 50-100 yards. The .22 rimfires just don't pack the power for that. I do go back and forth between the .223 and 7.62x39. I can reload for my .357 mag carbine fairly cheap, but sometimes it's a little disheartening to burn offall the ammo I spent a week reloading in an afternoon.