M14 Hunting Ammo

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What do you guys use for hunting ammo for your M14/M305 rifles? I have just been using Winchester Super X 150 grain .308 rounds and they seem to work fine for the few shots a year I take with them.
 
Federal gold box 150gr ballistic tips worked well for me. The blue box shoots really well in my guns as well. Hard to say if there is any appreciable difference in the end results of using one vs the other.
 
federal blue box 150 has , for me, been the most reliable commercial ammunition in these rifles since before I joined CGN.
that's not me saying it is "the best" , it's that it has been the most reliable. It's the only ammunition I would use to test fire customer rifles when I was tuning/building them.
I also use the nosler accubonds and partitions , 165gr I think..... would have to look (for moose and such)
I use the nosler J4 custom comp bullets for paper but those are reloads
 
That Federal Blue box used to be so cheap at one time. Like $15 a box when the Norinco's were very popular on the scene. I shot a lot of it.
 
It is my understanding when using sporting cartridges in the M305 one should install a Sadlak grooved gas piston to handle the extra gas pressure. This includes sporting bullet weights of 150g which are close to NATO weights of 147g. This is to reduce strain on the op rod and receiver. M305 NATO SPEC. cartridge walls are thicker and have a SMALLER powder charge. This is because the automatic action is so fast the brass is extracted before it fully contracts in the chamber after firing. The thicker brass prevents case head separation. Comments anyone?
 
eaglesnester said:
It is my understanding when using sporting cartridges in the M305 one should install a Sadlak grooved gas piston to handle the extra gas pressure. This includes sporting bullet weights of 150g which are close to NATO weights of 147g. This is to reduce strain on the op rod and receiver. M305 NATO SPEC. cartridge walls are thicker and have a SMALLER powder charge. This is because the automatic action is so fast the brass is extracted before it fully contracts in the chamber after firing. The thicker brass prevents case head separation. Comments anyone?
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bull#### - just someone trying to sell you a sadlak piston- I use 168 grainers all the time and have used 180 on occasion when the need arises- ie elk moose ,and bear- best ask barney or dennis or 45 acp king what he thinks - as far as head separation goes , it's a matter of the chambering- ie headspace- every time you fire the case expands and contracts and that's where the stretching comes in- that's why we use the 4 or less and gone rule in the m14 et al
 
t-star said:
bull#### - just someone trying to sell you a sadlak piston- I use 168 grainers all the time and have used 180 on occasion when the need arises- ie elk moose ,and bear- best ask barney or dennis or 45 acp king what he thinks - as far as head separation goes , it's a matter of the chambering- ie headspace- every time you fire the case expands and contracts and that's where the stretching comes in- that's why we use the 4 or less and gone rule in the m14 et al
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I had 7 rifles at last count
 
I've tried a variety of match bullets, and mine likes the 168 smk's the best. 155 palmas didn't shoot well for some reason. Yet my bolt gun does like them.
 
eaglesnester said:
It is my understanding when using sporting cartridges in the M305 one should install a Sadlak grooved gas piston to handle the extra gas pressure. This includes sporting bullet weights of 150g which are close to NATO weights of 147g. This is to reduce strain on the op rod and receiver. M305 NATO SPEC. cartridge walls are thicker and have a SMALLER powder charge. This is because the automatic action is so fast the brass is extracted before it fully contracts in the chamber after firing. The thicker brass prevents case head separation. Comments anyone?
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you got that right, the heavier bullets and higher charges have bent op rods. the extraction can be so quick and violent that the case rim can be bent. the m14 was designed around the 147 gr. nato round, and to have full auto mode.
 
1-trident-1 said:
you got that right, the heavier bullets and higher charges have bent op rods. the extraction can be so quick and violent that the case rim can be bent. the m14 was designed around the 147 gr. nato round, and to have full auto mode.
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yea, you keep telling yourself that- and glen zediker , ( who has done far more testing than the rest of us put together) the other big three that are on this board are wrong-as far as f/a goes , it's the same story as the fn- they're designed for 3-5 shot bursts, not true full auto- why do you think we learned sonofa*ich repeat in the army
 
Some of you are confusing the M1 Garand with the M14/m1a/m305

the M14 Family the piston will vent gas off after it has moved app 1-1/2 inches

I would at the heaviest shoot 175g the ... 150-165- 168 are the bread and gravy ... lets ask for more

I would stay away from the Hornady Superformance in the m14/m305

you could also turn off the gas .. and do a straight pull
 
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