I am looking for some factory ammo in preparation for a sheep hunt. Does anyone have any idea where I can get it?

Thanks!

Ammo to Go has Black Hills ammo with the 180 Accubonds.

I just found those and have ordered enough to dial in the rifle and hunt.

Maybe too late but my local dealer has one box of Winchester 180 Accybonds and his distributor has five more boxes of the same. Dealer is Wayne Lykens, Island Firearms 412 264 4867. He is willing to order and ship to you.

larryshores ----- Superior Ammo at www.superiorammo.com will load you anything you want. They do offer the 180 grain Accubonds according to their list. Good shooting.

I am just curious. Do you not trust reloaded ammo for a hunt?

All the big game I have got since 1953 has been with my own handloads.

I never had a problem I can recall with factory or military ammo. Failure to fire has usually been the guns fault. That never happened with my hunting rifles in the field.

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Originally posted by silvertip1:
I am just curious. Do you not trust reloaded ammo for a hunt?

Depending on who loaded them, I may or may not trust them. Personally, I have no tine to reload.

I want factory ammo primarily so I can use ballistic programs for LONG range shots.

That doesn't compute. Before you can use the ballistics programs, you have to know what the velocity is whether it's store bought or home rolled. And too, those ballistics programs can only give you an approximate of what's happening downrange. I would never attempt a "long" shot based on a ballistics program without having shot at the distance.

Norma has 180 gr. Accubond in 300WM....excellent ammo ! I personally reload 180 gr. Accubond for my 300WM

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Originally posted by wasbeeman:
That doesn't compute. Before you can use the ballistics programs, you have to know what the velocity is whether it's store bought or home rolled. And too, those ballistics programs can only give you an approximate of what's happening downrange. I would never attempt a "long" shot based on a ballistics program without having shot at the distance.

Not really.

I do not have ready access to a LONG range facility. I went to TX to a long range shooting school with ranges up to 600 yards. I spent 2 days there. I was able to verify that the info from the program was spot on.

If I find, for example, the rifle is 1 inch lower at 100 yards than it was when I left, I have confidence that the computer generated ranges for each hash mark are also on. However, I do not have time, the ammo or the facilities to dial it in upon my arrival to AK or where ever.

Winchester Supreme 180gr AB's or maybe the XP3 Elite ammo.

Federal use to have 180gr AB's.

Larry

If you rely on a ballistics calculator play around with altitude and pressure and see what is does to your numbers. Temperature changes can also wreak havoc with velocities. Finally, and you probably know this, but for steep uphills and downhills either get a rangefinder that reads true range, or use a cosine indicator and do the math(s).

To make those ballistics programs accurate you need to know the bullets actual ballistic coefficient, the actual muzzle velocity from your rifle, the baro pressure and altitude and the height of your sight above the bore centerline. You put that information into the software and it will spit out correct info - theoretically. I use three different ballistics programs and no two of them agree. The one I wrote seems to be the most accurate but I always sight my guns at or very near the location I am going to hunt. That is especially important with long range shots.