Quote Originally Posted by thermaler View Post
I've shot thousands of federal rounds through my AR's--I regard it as "fodder break-in" type ammo since I generally get ho-hum results with it (especially the lake military surplus stuff which comes in ammo boxes, which I no longer will chamber in my AR's even though it's ultra-cheap)--but like they say each gun has it's own preferred diet. My theory is that the lighter calibers, especially with the shorter production stock, in the Axis line will generally have fewer issues than the big bangers. In the budget line of surplus type ammo I've found the Prvi partizan PPU to have outstanding quality and results for the type of ammo that it is--but keep in mind it is a higher pressure NATO 5.56 though I don't know if that is of any consequence to the Axis.
If you still are wanting to be cheap with ammo, then you shouldn't own a rifle when you are looking for accuracy. Keep the cheap stuff in the AR's.