Quality of Tula ammo?

shooting steel case is a personal decision. i shoot tula in a colt ar15 and have never had any issues. buy a couple boxes and try for yourself.

ive shot tula/wolf in 223 5.45 7.62x39 308 45 40 and 9mm in my guns they all worked fiine with the exception of one round of 40 s&w

Tula is of sub-par quality. And it isn't just a matter of brass vs steel case, Tula is cheap. Not inexpensive, cheap.

Some people like it for blasting/generic training ammo, others say it's good for practicing malfunction drills.

A buddy of mine picked up some in 45 auto to run throug his XD a few weeks ago. In just a few mags he had maybe three failures to fire. The gun, however, is new to him, so I suppose there is an outside chance of it being a gun related problem. I'm betting not though. At least one of the rounds was chambered a second time and still did not fire. I personally think Tula is just plain junk.

I've used Tula 9mm. I had a FTF with one round out of 1000. Just a small puff of smoke at the back of the gun.

It's not the cleanest ammo, either.

Run thousands of rounds of the stuff through my M1A, FAL, PTR, AR, VZ58, AK, 1911s, ect, ect... I had one round blow the primer out of it's pocket and jam up the FAL, but that was the only failure I've ever seen with it. (Still not sure how it even happened...)

It's about all I feed my rifles these days. Even my CZ 527 likes it, every round seems to chamber and extract the same... not so much with the white-box Russian.

I should mention...I buy TulAmmo for my Glocks. I guy anything and everything for them. TulAmmo, Brown Bear, Silver Bear, whatever. Runs just fine.

But in an AR...doesn't seem to do as well.

Tula 223 in my Del-Ton kit (good cheap ammo in a good cheap rifle!) is great. 55gr HP or FMJ. I've never had a failure to feed or eject, and never had one fail to fire. They shoot (in my barrel anyway) consistantly tighter groups than American Eagle, Federal 193s, or Lake City 855s.

If you want to match ballistics at a cheaper cost then shoot the heck out of some tula and never back.

As with most things, you get what you pay for. Tula is the cheapest ammo you can buy most of the time, dirty and usually not very consistant. If all you do is blast away and hope most of them go bang then it will be suitable.

browningguy said:

As with most things, you get what you pay for. Tula is the cheapest ammo you can buy most of the time, dirty and usually not very consistant. If all you do is blast away and hope most of them go bang then it will be suitable.

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I have never had a tula round fail to go off. Maybe it only happens in teir 1 guns?

I don't know about .223, but my understanding is that the Tula USA 7.62x39 currently coming into the US is actually being manufactured at the Ulyanovsk Machinery Plant. They have a much better reputation for quality ammunition than the Tula factory.

I had one pierced primer in a Tula 7.62x39 round. Bought 1 box to try. The Uly is good ammo, the stuff I shot was pretty sooty.

Is Tula 7.62x39 considered less reliable than Wolf or Monarch? After about 500 rds., there is no difference in my Norinco SKS.
I don't use Tula in other guns (.308, or M2 Ball: not available) because it is not reloadable, if produced in those calibers.

I've never had a single ftf in this SKS with the Tula, or over 2,000 rds of Wolf and Monarch. But in the older Ruger Mini 30, about one round in every two or three boxes needed a second pin strike, and this is a well-known characteristic of the hard primers in soft US guns.
Maybe none of our rifles have free-floating firing pins.

shoot tula all the time very happy with it

Ignition Override said:

Is Tula 7.62x39 considered less reliable than Wolf or Monarch? After about 500 rds., there is no difference in my Norinco SKS.
I don't use Tula in other guns (.308, or M2 Ball: not available) because it is not reloadable, if produced in those calibers.

I've never had a single ftf in this SKS with the Tula, or over 2,000 rds of Wolf and Monarch. But in the older Ruger Mini 30, about one round in every two or three boxes needed a second pin strike, and this is a well-known characteristic of the hard primers in soft US guns.
Maybe none of our rifles have free-floating firing pins.

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Not with this shooter. It runs just fine. No malfunctions.

But, then again, I'm shooting it out of a Maadi, so ill probably NEVER see a malfunction! It's also fairly accurate, too.

But, I could see where an AR15 would choke on steel.

I just finished my first case of 7.62x39 TULA, ran perfectly fine in my AK. I've shot the 9mm stuff too and it worked.

Warp said:

Tula is of sub-par quality.

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1/2" at 100 out of my Mini Mauser, doesn't seem "sub-par". No malfunctions out of a WASR or Maadi. Maybe it's the rifle you are using?

I would like to try some Tula but have so much Wolf that I purchased when it was under a hundred bucks a case as well a cases of Barnaul that I'll probably never even get thru. Might pick up a few boxes of Tula at the next gun show just to give it a go.

Just remember, if it doesn't run right, blame the ammo, not the gun. Nevermind all the people that run it without issue, it's the ammo's fault!!!!

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Tula/Wolf is fine for range duty. People knock its' accuracy like they're expecting match-grade, but at 5 bucks for a box of 20 (.223 or 7.62x39), I'd look more closely at those peoples' expectations & delusions of grandeur than the ammo. You get what you pay for. Sure, once in a great while you may get one that's a little underpowered that causes a stovepipe, but I've shot thousands and thousands of rounds of the stuff in various calibers without it driving me nuts with malfunctions or issues, even the pistol calibers. Sure, it's dirtier, but.....I clean my guns, so it makes no difference.

I've shot the 9mm, .45 apc, and .223 Tula with no issues. My Glocks and Stag cycle it just fine. Not the most accurate, but I'm not the best shot anyway It is a dirtier ammo, but not enough to bother me. The Glocks love it, and it's all my AR has ever eaten short of a few more premium boxes of ammo when Walmart was out of Tula in .223.

The only thing I have had a problem with is Tula .380. My LCP hates it. I probably had 4 light primer strikes out of a box of 50.

But yeah, I wouldn't hesitate to feed it to my rifles. I see an SKS in my near future, and it'll be fed Russian slop too probably

Never had a problem with pistol caliber product. 30 cal carbine does plug up the gas block in my Universal, circa 70's.

I've had VERY good luck with tula (wolf) primers. Wolf Gold ammo was good quality also, but that's their line of brass-cased ammo. Their jacketed bullets for reloading have been at least decent, but the rifle I shot those out of is 2.5 MOA on a good day, so it's hard to say.

Tula and Wolf are both dirty ammo. but people shoot it all the time. If you buy it in bulk it is defiantly worth it for the range time.

I've not had any issues with Tula or Wolf. Don't find it all that dirty either and I bet I clean my guns a lot less often than most.

Its pretty much all I shoot since I can't reload for what it costs, rarely shoot over 100 yards, and would rather shoot more shots at larger targets than fewer at smaller targets so 2-3 MOA is fine my steel plates and 2-liter plastic bottles.

In my experience there is not a lick of difference amoung the Russian steel cased ammo -- buy what cheapest unless you want a particular bullet FMJ, JHP, or SP its all 2-3 MOA at best in a quality rifle.