How to Select Ammunition for Precision Rifle Shooting

Here's another important video from the Personal Defense Network. When it comes to precision rifle shooting ammunition selection and consistent ammunition use is gonna be a very important part of your process. There are a lot of different types of bullets. Something like this. Soft point is a pretty typical example of probably the most common type of ammunition you're gonna find when you go to your local sporting goods store. Any store that sells a large amount of ammunition. Of course you can get other specialized types of rounds. Full metal jacket rounds also are gonna be very common. And this type of bullet has become incredibly popular recently. This is a ballistic tip. This is gonna allow you to have good performance. If you were in a hunting situation or other situation where you're concerned about what the bullet's gonna do when it hits a soft target. But you also want the consistency of that good pointed front end. Also that ballistic tip will get pushed back into the bullet to help it expand on impact. If that's what you're looking for. Another thing to keep in consideration is bullet weights. Different bullet weights act different through different rifles. Myself with my rifle, it seems to like 175 grain bullet the best. A different rifle that I have at home, likes 160 grain. So to have a good precision rifle, ammunition selection is partitive. Don't pick one ammunition off the shelf and stay with it. Do your research work with your different rounds, your different bullets, your different manufacturers until you find what your rifle likes particularly the best. Absolutely. And what we've done today is we've got a selection around. We're gonna shoot through the rifle that we've just set up. And we're gonna take a look and see which one it likes better. Once we find out. Then it's usually a good idea to actually go all the way to the detail of finding out, the lot number and all the information you can about exactly what type of bullet, when it was made, how it was made. And if you can go to your local retailer and pick up a case of it. Now, for some precision rifle shooters the case may last a year. For others it's gonna last a lifetime. But once you find a bullet that works very, very well in your firearm. You want to go ahead and get as much of it as you can. Because small differences in manufacturing with the powder maybe used it's different or maybe a different primer. And a different case lot or a different run of manufacturing, can have a dramatic effect when we talk about extreme precision at extreme range. So go through a lot of different cartridges. Combinations of powder, primer and bullet. Find out which one your rifle likes and then get a good supply of it. If for some reason you run out of that particular ammunition, you need to be aware that changing ammunition could have a dramatic change on your point of impact versus your point of aims. And it's probably a good idea to go back out and zero it. And get to know that your rifle is gonna do exactly what you want it to do. Being able to predict the placement of the bullet has a lot to do with the bullet you select. Check out more videos just like this one at the Personal Defense Network.