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How to find a less expensive practice round?
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<blockquote data-quote="Frog4aday" data-source="post: 1677050" data-attributes="member: 9308"><p>Practice time with your primary hunting rifle is a great thing, so I get it.</p><p></p><p>In regards to the steel cased ammo, you should have no worries there. It won't harm your gun unless you put 6,000 rounds of it through there. Lucky Gunner (<a href="https://www.luckygunner.com/labs/brass-vs-steel-cased-ammo/" target="_blank">https://www.luckygunner.com/labs/brass-vs-steel-cased-ammo/</a>) did a 'torture' test to see if the steel cases 'wore out' the chamber faster than brass (no.) And to see if the 'bi-metal' bullets wore out the rifling faster than 'regular' bullets (yes...at 6,000 rounds vs. 10,000 for the copper bullets, ha!)</p><p></p><p>Hopefully your friend's Uncle has all the stuff you need to get started reloading because that really is a great way to go. And the younger you are when you start, the more you'll save over your lifetime. And for you, needing to shoot mono-metal bullets (California), it opens up the chance to use Hammer bullets, since they are a 'reload-only' option right now. They have a reputation of being quite accurate and on-game performance is also supposed to be quite good. If you reload, the bullet world is your oyster! It's fun. You can tailor loads to your gun and twist (and state laws.)</p><p></p><p>If you opt to not reload nor do steel cased stuff for practice, you can find brass cased ammo for about $0.55 to $0.50 a round (usually for 147 grain FMJ stuff) if you buy 500 rounds at a time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frog4aday, post: 1677050, member: 9308"] Practice time with your primary hunting rifle is a great thing, so I get it. In regards to the steel cased ammo, you should have no worries there. It won't harm your gun unless you put 6,000 rounds of it through there. Lucky Gunner ([URL]https://www.luckygunner.com/labs/brass-vs-steel-cased-ammo/[/URL]) did a 'torture' test to see if the steel cases 'wore out' the chamber faster than brass (no.) And to see if the 'bi-metal' bullets wore out the rifling faster than 'regular' bullets (yes...at 6,000 rounds vs. 10,000 for the copper bullets, ha!) Hopefully your friend's Uncle has all the stuff you need to get started reloading because that really is a great way to go. And the younger you are when you start, the more you'll save over your lifetime. And for you, needing to shoot mono-metal bullets (California), it opens up the chance to use Hammer bullets, since they are a 'reload-only' option right now. They have a reputation of being quite accurate and on-game performance is also supposed to be quite good. If you reload, the bullet world is your oyster! It's fun. You can tailor loads to your gun and twist (and state laws.) If you opt to not reload nor do steel cased stuff for practice, you can find brass cased ammo for about $0.55 to $0.50 a round (usually for 147 grain FMJ stuff) if you buy 500 rounds at a time. [/QUOTE]
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