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Originally Posted by A Salt Weapon
I hear you, it is pretty hard to mess up small rifle ammo, corrosive could be bad if it was not known, even an overloaded cartridge in 5.56 will most likely just break your magazine ($6-$20). An out-of-battery misfire could damage the rifle, however that most likely wouldn't be the fault of the ammo.
The worst case it would damage your upper, (new one will set you back $100) your barrel ($100-200, unless it's a nice one and then you're probably not shooting cheap ammo through it), or your bolt, possibly the carrier ($30-$150). Even if it was possible to damage the lower ($100, but I've never seen a lower damaged by ammo).
That said any part that got damaged can be replaced for about $100, seeing how steel case can save $100+ per case, you'd have to be the unluckiest person on earth to even have one yet alone more than one ka-boom per thousand rounds.
The nice thing about the AR platform is everything is interchangeable, thus if something ever breaks it can be replaced easily and cheap.
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this is all true. However I'm gonna stick with brass for now because of the reloading factor. It's all up in the air right now but I can see your point. For plinking go with the cheapo stuff, but I'd always keep some brass cartridges around just in case, maybe 500 rounds or so...