Wolf and Brown Bear Ammo

half will say ok,the other half will say it will cause "end of times".I have shot several thousand rounds of the stuff,pistol and rifle,have not had any mechanical problems. stuff is dirty,but thats why they make bore cleaner. buy it and shoot it...jwr

I shoot Wolf through all my guns if needed and have never had any issues. As said, it's dirty but not corrosive and you want to clean your ccw weapons after every range session anyway.

Its fine ammo, shoot away !

I used to shoot a lot of Brown Bear 9mm, but had problems of the slide not returning to battery with one lot. Other than that, it was fine and cheap shooting. After shooting I always took great pains to clean the chamber to prevent lacquer build up. Don't konw if that is a real problem, but did not want to find out.

I have no experience with this Brown Bear, and last shot Wolf five or six years ago. I had no problems with 9mm Luger but had a few misfires (light primer strikes in an otherwise reliable gun) with .45 Auto. The powder was quite odiferous and left a bit more soot buildup than usual, but cleaned up easily. Buy and shoot a box or two to see if you like it before committing to a larger purchase.

I've never had any problem with Wolf. I've probably put 500+ rounds through my Argentinian Hi-Power, as well as 1500+ rounds through my SKS & AK. Never an issue. I'm kind of a psycho about cleaning though, so it doesn't bug me.

Wolf and Brown Bear Ammo is good reliable stuff which can "usually" be bought for far more cheaper than domestic ammo. (Especially when you buy in bulk.)

Only downside is that you can't reload it due to the steel casings.....

Its fine... the steel cases are made of very soft steel. Much softer than what your gun is made of.

Since you can buy 500 rounds of Brown Bear or Wolf 9x19mm for less than a hundred bucks even in today's market, I'd say it's worth looking into. I've never had any problem with wolf ammo.

Speaking of steel cases, there was a video of a guy on YouTube showing how you can reload them. I don't know if I'd try it myself though.

Interesting you bring this up. I shot at a new range today that specifically banned Wolf/Brown Bear ammo.

Something about unburnt powder, sparks and the potential for fire.

"Something about unburnt powder, sparks and the potential for fire."

That's just a fancy way of saying: I am an Anti-Russian bigot and please buy the outrageously expensive ammo here at the range.

Interesting you bring this up. I shot at a new range today that specifically banned Wolf/Brown Bear ammo.

Something about unburnt powder, sparks and the potential for fire.

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The ranges around here use the excuse that since it is magnetic it might be steel core and mess up there back stop.

One of my local ranges only recently began letting us shoot Wolf, using the old 'steel core' argument.
Wolf + Bear and are stinky, the packaging isn't very good at all (they'll come apart in your range bag and spill rounds everywhere), and MAY be a little bit dirtier. But, they're reliable, and cheap, and readily available in large quantities. I wouldn't shoot it from my vintage 1911 (if I were so blessed), but in your XD40? Heck yea.

Your XD will eat all the steel cased ammo you can feed it. Blast away!

I've had a lot of success with it in both 9x19 and 9x18. The only issues I've had is a jamming issue, but that was due to the gun design and unpolished ramp. It didn't really care for the JHP.
However, for the price you can't beat it. Hundreds of rounds of the stuff shot, and a couple hundred more rounds on order. I like it

I had some problems with Wolf ammo once with an XD-45. It kept getting jammed and not feeding properly into the chamaber, never had that problem with any other ammo. I perfer Winchester 100 rnd value packs for $20.00 at Wally World whenever they actually have it for good cheap ammo.

I've shot thousands of rounds of Wolf, Brown Bear, Silver Bear, etc in handguns and rifles and have thousands of rounds now.
The only caliber I have had a LOT of trouble with is .223.

I can't say I like the Russian ammo but if necessary I shoot it

If you have to shoot it, due to avalibility or cost, don't worry about, it won't wreck your guns.

Generally the Russian ammo isn't especially accurate but there are exceptions. Like the .380 Brown Bear I recently shot with a Micro Desert Eagle at 52 yards. Two shots missed, but that was the shooter's fault, not the gun or the Brown Bear ammunition.

Standing, two hands. Brown Bear JRN.

It's not that they're worried the bullets will damage their backstop, they're worried your casings will make their brass recycling business unprofitable.

Ranges institute brass-only policies so they can sweep up the brass without sorting and dump it off at the local scrap yard. The only ranges I've been to that allowed steel-cased ammo were the ones that had to sort the empties anyway as they sold them in 10lb bags to club members.

Interesting you bring this up. I shot at a new range today that specifically banned Wolf/Brown Bear ammo.

Something about unburnt powder, sparks and the potential for fire.

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What they meant to say is "Sorry, we want you to buy our overpriced ammo we sell and then leave your brass so that we can pick it up and resell it, after overcharging you for it in the first place." I would imagine if that exact same ammo were in a reloadable brass case they wouldnt have a problem at all with you using it.