Cheap Practice Ammo - What do I do?

[HoustonHipster6.5]

Much of the forum is advice in high-performance reloads, but I am seeing the writing on the wall for 100 gr Wolf. It's drying up. I have plenty of Hornady Black ELDs, but what I don't have is a cheap practice reload. What can y'all recommend for roll-your-own cheap practice ammo?

[EastTNHunter]

Whatever bullets you can find for a decent price. Whatever powder you have in stock. Won’t take too much load development to find a load that will shoot similar or better groups as the Wolf.

I bought several boxes of the Sierra 85gr varminters when they were clearing them out a few months back. Reloder 7 at moderate charges based on some Sierra load data got me to where I wanted to be with minimal effort. Nice little moa to sub moa groups consistently at 2775 fps.

[lazyengineer]

Fed TNT 90s. Midway has a birthday sale that's pretty great, if you can time it right. I picked up a couple thousand for ~15 cents before the world went mad. And for brass, 7.62x39 pickups and purchased pickups can be cheap and easy. I started a thread on if one can just run pre-primed wolf steel 7.62x39 brass (buy and toss the bullets of cheap 7.62x39). I think doable, but few Posted experience. And yes, that runs about the same powder and same charge (about), with the TNT 90 subbed on top.

[StoneHendge]

I have been extremely happy with TAC and 90 gr TNTs. PV still has TAC and when the TNTs are around, they're cheap (20-25¢) https://www.65grendel.com/forum/showthre...90-gr-TNTs

[JethroBodine]

Midsouth has Hornady 123gr FMJ 250 count in stock for $66.50.
https://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/b/hornady

[Oso Polaris]

I find myself muttering about the price of 6.5mm TNT's... A couple of weeks ago I bought several boxes of 125gr TNT (30 cal) for $77/500 box. I know... economies of scale, price of retooling the production line to run smaller batches of 6.5mm bullets, etc. But still that $0.15 (30cal) versus $0.25 (6.5mm)?!

[NDSwede]

Midwayusa has bulk seconds (Hornady) bullets om sale. 129 gr. for $21 plus shipping.
If you reload and can get primers you can build some nice bullets for about $0.50 each. That comes to $10/20. That's about as cheap as it gets these days.

[TedBrewer5]

I checked the midway factory seconds out this morning. Lots of choices. 120,123 and 129 gr selections