Originally Posted by
CMP Shooter
For us reloaders, issue ammo isn't important at all. For non-reloaders, I imagine they appreciate the opportunity to shoot the Hornady ammo instead of HXP. If the CMP ever allows handloads in lieu of issued ammo, those that can't reload will assume that we are producing 1/2 MOA ammo that can't miss the ten ring. There'll be lots of hollering that we have an unfair advantage. I certainly wouldn't do anything to disabuse them of that notion.
FWIW, in a conversation I had with a CMP person at the Eastern Games he indicated that eventually they might start issuing the 150 gr., FMJ Hornady ammo to keep costs down.
Locally the match director limits handloads to hunting bullets, no match grade. I guess he has no experience with a Nosler ballistic tip.
Phillip McGregor (OFC)
"I am neither a fire arms nor a ballistics expert, but I was a combat infantry officer in the Great War, and I absolutely know that the bullet from an infantry rifle has to be able to shoot through things." General Douglas MacArthur