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Its not my choice, but the individual rifle's!Approve
My No4 prefers 150 gr FB over anything else.
My 2 SMLES & my No5 want the 174/180 gr ones.

If you're using the Issue sights you're pretty much set up for 175 or 180 ones.
Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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I use a lot of 174 grain bullets salvaged from Indian ammo.
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You hunt with FMJ ammo or this is just for target practice?

These are bullets that are pulled from surplus ammo?
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The 174 are just for target use.
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Gotcha.  You pull them yourself or is there some sort of secondary market for bullets pulled from surplus ammo?

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I pull them myself with Grandbabies slave labor.

Teaching them well.
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Heh.  I'm the same way.  In the process of teaching my girls how to weld.  I've got grown men that work for me that have no idea how to do even very basic things that you and I grew up having to know as part of the "table stakes" of being a good husband/father/citizen/etc.  :)
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