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14 Jan 2020 Military.com
"The U.S. Army recently selected Sig Sauer, maker of the new Modular Handgun System, to make .300 Win Mag ammunition for the service's bolt-action sniper rifle.
In a $10 million deal, Sig will manufacture the MK 248 MOD 1 and MOD 0 .300 Win Mag ammunition, which will be used in the Army's M2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifle."
If any of the U.S. Military uses handloads I am unaware of it and they make some pretty fair shots (and, again, talking about animal size targets, whether two or four legged, not F class).
For most soldiers factory ammo is fine, the Snipers that I know load there own using equipment furnished by their unit. The match shooters that I competed against, also loaded there own if only to pull the bullet and replace it with the bullet of their choice. This was common practice with the 173 grain white box match. these bullets were remove and replaced with a 168 grain Match king.
Federal now sells this loaded ammo. But many want to load it themselves for their confidence that it will all be the same.
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