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I've never used my M14 for hunting, but I am, and all I have for it is fmj's. Would you suggest sticking with a ~150ish grain softpoint or going heavier for deer, pig or the like?

It's zeroed in for port surplus, so i'd kinda like a lighter, faster round over something that is like lobbing morter fire hehe.

So, do you know of any round close to port surplus in ballistics that i can use hunting?

For any pig or deer you can just use any 150gr hunting ammo.
Factory ammo all will have similar velocities for same weight bullets.
150gr will be heavy enough for anything you'll see.

It doesn't matter. With the game animals here, "what grain" to use in a .308 is totally theoretical in nature.

i wont be hunting here. but i agree, i could probably take florida deer with my makarov hehe :)

Port is usually 147, so a 150 SP would be a similar substitute. If you are going to possibly be "reaching out" I would buy 2 boxes and head to the range for a quick zero check before the trip. Where might you be getting to take the M14 hunting, if I may be so bold???

Ok I'm gonna get Black Hills Gold .308 Winchester 150 Gr. Nosler Ballistic Tip, I'm looking already, but maybe someone already know, where is the cheapest source for this?

Will be in tennessee using iron sights :)

NK wrote:Ok I'm gonna get Black Hills Gold .308 Winchester 150 Gr. Nosler Ballistic Tip,

Just make sure Black Hill loads those cartridges with Nosler Ballistc Tip Hunting bullets and not their Varmint bullets. Some factory "match" and "target" load cartridges are loaded with "varmint" type bullets... especially hollow point style.

yeah, i wont get varmint bullets :)

the cheapest i've seen em is 50 cents a round, trying to go lower tho.

Federal makes a 165 gr Sierra Game King load that is very accurate.

Moe

i wanna keep the grainage about the same as my surplus.

ideally i'd find a round with identical ballistics to my port. hopefully the black hills 150 will just be a click or 2 difference.

just curious, does anyone else hunt with their main battle rifles? they are heavier than a dedicated hunting rifle, but I think it is well worth it to train and use 1 gun extensively unless you have tons of range time to get used to 10 different guns.

lately i havent practiced in months since my range closed, i'm going out of my mind.

where does everyone else in swfla shoot rifles other than cecil webb?

I also suggest a 150 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip round. I used them on my hunt, loaded by federal and they worked like a charm. I think I paid about 18 bucks a box from Midwayusa when they had a sale.

NK wrote:just curious, does anyone else hunt with their main battle rifles? they are heavier than a dedicated hunting rifle, but I think it is well worth it to train and use 1 gun extensively unless you have tons of range time to get used to 10 different guns.

lately i havent practiced in months since my range closed, i'm going out of my mind.

where does everyone else in swfla shoot rifles other than cecil webb?

I would if I could but the states that I usually hunt exclude s/a rifles and mag capacity greater than 5. So I use my Remy 700PSS to hunt with. About the same weight, but I gotta run the bolt for the next round. I don't know how that makes it a safer rifle, as I can hit more accurately with this rifle, and farther out than my M1A.

I do have a 5 round mag for the M1A in case I get to got to a s/a friendly state, but it's still in the wrapper, as I have heard they are a PITA to get out once they are in the rifle.

i've got 2 5 rounders, so i'm good to go in that front.

i'm still debating weather or not there are any mounts worth it.
obviously this would be really tight with optics, but from what i hear there really arent any good m14 mounts that go over the receiver, since the receiver on this particular gun takes such a mammoth pounding

NK i have a leftover Bsquare mount for the m14, 3 point mount, that i never was able to sell. you can have it if you want, pm me.

NK wrote:ii'm still debating weather or not there are any mounts worth it. obviously this would be really tight with optics, but from what i hear there really arent any good m14 mounts that go over the receiver, since the receiver on this particular gun takes such a mammoth pounding

It has nothing to do with the "pounding" the receiver takes. M1As don't scope well because the commercial receivers tend to all have slightly different receiver measurements from each other.

The best mounts to use are, in order, Brookfield Precision Tool (no longer made and expensive when you find one), Smith Enterprise (Brookfield clone and available), ARMS #18 (half of them mount well, half don't), and everything else.

Whatever you do, have it mounted by somebody who knows the M1A/M14 platform. They are a pain to mount correctly on the rifle's centerline.

The military M14 receivers all have consistant measurements and scope the same.

Moe

yeah, whatever bad things can be said about the polytech m14's bad reciever isn't one of them.

from everything i have read they will take the milspec designed mounts perfectly.


it was a tossup between the titanium mount and the arms 18, and nothing at all. i think this year will be nothing at all, the irons really are top notch. later, if i dont do well with irons i will scope it.

i'm going with a guy that goes like every 3 weeks for something or other, whatever is in season i guess, so there will be plenty of first hand practice in the future.

be very careful what you shoot in that m1a
it is designed to be fired with mikitary ammo
dangerous pressures can ruin your gun depending on the powder and load

NK wrote:just curious, does anyone else hunt with their main battle rifles? they are heavier than a dedicated hunting rifle, but I think it is well worth it to train and use 1 gun extensively unless you have tons of range time to get used to 10 different guns.

lately i havent practiced in months since my range closed, i'm going out of my mind.

where does everyone else in swfla shoot rifles other than cecil webb?

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