What's cheapest and most available milsurp rifle ammo caliber?

[svt-40]

What can be bought in crates for cheap around here? Looking at my range floor, I can see mostly 303 brit, 30-06 and 7.62 NATO spent casings. Are they the cheapest or just most popular?

 

[Paulinski]

308 can be hard relatively cheap. Portugese 200 round sleeves sell for $65 at districorp. 30-06 unless you reload its expensive to feed. I was paying $17 -20 rounds of commercial 150gr 30-06

7.62x39 and 7.62x54r seem to be the cheapest

 

[svt-40]

Huh, that's good and you know why

 

[HPL]

The smartass answer would be .22LR that they use in training rifles.

Really though 7.62x39 is probably the cheapest milsurp ammo.

 

[prosper]

7.62x39mm.


No doubt

 

[Paulinski]

Well considering the amount of AK's out there 7.62x39 should be cheapest.

 

[mg34]

at my range the common brass is 3006, 308, 3030 and 270. 3006 is cheaper to reload, i can do a reload for 0.24 each and that is buying the fmj bullet.

 

[platnumbob]

ya...but 7.62x39 can be bought for around 15 cents a round...and you dont have to do your own reloading!

 

[cpt. canuck]

+3 7.62x39