7.62 ammo
 

Im fixin to buy a new dpms 7.62/308 ar. My plan is to shoot the 7.62 surplus for target then get some good 308 rounds for hunting
I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for a source for bulk ammo. Good qaulity but a good price

Gonna be looking for a really really really long time... Surplus and quality don't go hand in hand.

Rattling through mags with an LR-308 isn't nearly as fun as you'll want it to be, and it aint cheap, even with surplus crap ammo.

X2 7.62X51 isn't exactly surplus anymore, all nato ammo is hard to find and not nearly as cheap as it use to be, reman 223 ammo is now around 500 bucks a thousand, use to buy it for almost 1/2 that at will now its really hard to find, what is there is pretty much useless for accuracy.
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Not really looking to burn through mags. More just i like shooting kinda calming to me. I do not will not run crap ammo when i bought my first ar two weeks before the ban lifted i bought some surplus ammo at the same gun show. It had green crap all through my gun and smelled of ammonia. Im thinkin buy a 500-1000 rounds good ammo and reloadin it

Our sorry bout my spelling guess to bad for autocorrect

Wal-Mart in winchester va has a lot more then 20 box's of 150 rounds of federal american eagle 223. Not sure of price didn't need any. So this is a good sing ammo is being available again. They had lots of other ammo awhile, but no 22.

Try luckygunner.com or bulkammo.com I personally don't have a 308/ 7.62x51 at so doing know if these are good prices but they do have it in stock.

You'll probably find those two features to be incompatible.

I'm starting to see boxes of Winchester 7.62x51mm (147 gr, FMJ) start to show back up on the market. That's about the "cheapest" I'll go when it comes to my M1A. A lot of the cheap surplus stuff that you used to be able to find was foreign machinegun ammo, delinked and repackaged, and often - corrosive.

When 5.56mm is showing back up on the shelves at 150-200% of what it sold for pre-panic, be prepared for some sticker shock. While bulk 5.56mm has been available then an now, I've never seen "quality" 7.62mm offered for sale in the same bulk quantities. You may need to get used to the idea that you'll buy your ammo one magazine at a time.

Thats a fact on both accounts. Not to mention that some of the surplus crap ammo isnt that nice to your barrel or gas system. If they come from some third world dirt hole counrty that is now selling ammo from the pre-vietnam era, it more than likely has mercuric primers. Meaning that if you don't meticiously clean your weapon when your done, it may be done over the course of time from the damage of these rounds. Just shoot the lesser priced quality rounds, get better groups, cleaner weapon afterwards, and still get to shoot, for that 308 AR isn't going to be as fun to shoot for a long period as you may think.

Thanks guys think imma just go with a quality ammo then reload em. Reloading is something iv always wanted to do anyways.

Ik with 45s itll be white box ammo ammo hydro shocks hollows
Its been 8 years since i had a high power rifle. Since indiana wont allow hunting with em.

Not that it is any of my business but why are you using a .762/.308 semi-auto rifle? If you want to put a lot of lead down range because it is relaxing (it is relaxing for me as well) then consider a Ruger 10/22 or an AR-15 both are much cheaper to shoot.

The .308 is a great hunting round but for practice shooting it gets expensive very fast. And reloading? Again if you want to shoot a lot of rounds reloading a lot of ammo on a single stage press gets boring. I suppose you could go with a progressive press but for the cost of that set-up you could get yourself an AR.

I recently bought an M1a...love the rifle but it does not take long to go through $100.00 worth of ammo...ammo that I hand loaded on a single stage press.

JM2C

Its gonna be my hunting rifle. And i ant gonna trust a 223 on a elk

sure they will ya just need indy legal chamberings, I know a guy who builds an Indy legal AR upper in the ballistic twin to a 358 Winchester, requires reloading but it ain't no slouch, but it is an AR-15, not an AR-10, better hunting rifle anyways, 2 lbs lighter, PM me if your interested.
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