Will steel ammo screw up my XD9 sc??

No, your gun will be fine.

JB357MAG said:

During the ammo shortage I unknowingly bought
a 50 round box of steel cased, steel jacket copper coated
9mm ammo for my XD9 sc.

Ive shot 20 or so of these and still have the rest.

Will this cause any undo wear to my barrel?

Jimmy

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Nope, not in a high quality pistol like the XD.

Shoot away.

unless you are a competitive shooter you very likely will not ever put enough rounds of any type of commercial ammunition down your 9mm barrel to wear it out.

Nope. Unless you bought 9mm Mokarov...

Ain't much of a gun if steel cased ammo breaks it!

Steel cased ammo is unlikely to cause more wear in the barrel. It may tax the extractor. Whether your XD is up to it is not going to be decided on the Internet. Some manufacturers warn against steel shells, others urge to use high quality ammo without saying what it is. Call Springfield or start with their Q&A on the web site, is what I would do.

I've shot some TulAmmo in my XD9sc, and not had any problems. I don't like using it mostly because most ranges don't want ANY non-brass casings since they usually can't be reloaded.

Will this cause any undo wear to my barrel?

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No.

probably not enough to ever notice.

I doubt it but it does stink IMO. Literally!
I hate the smell. At first I thought it was just the burn off of CLP as I don't always clean after every range trip. Even when I do clean or run the gun dry some of the stink remains.
I'll probably discontinue use when I shoot up what I have but not because it will damage my gun.

You will be fine with steel ammo. Just clean it every time you shoot that kind of ammo.

When most people read or hear the word "steel", they immediately think of their hammer's head, gun barrel or some other "hard" steel. Just as steel alloys can be made hard, so can they be made soft ... relatively speaking of course. In the case of steel bullets, the "softness" of the final product can rival that of copper and/or brass when annealing is done in a specific manner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annealing_(metallurgy)

No. I shot about 1400 Ruag-RWS iron jacketed 9x19 rounds through Chinese 219 Tokarev w/o visible signs of excessive wear. I miss that ammo as the gun did not need to be cleaned after shooting.

I've shot steel case ammo across the spectrum of calibers and never noticed any unusual wear. Sometimes when loading higher capacity magazines the last few rounds may be a bit of a chore to load due to the increased friction of the steel case but its never actually caused any problems. Sometimes indoor ranges won't let you use bi-metal jacketed rounds because of the potential of sparks on a steel backstop. Something to keep in consideration but I'd say if you can find it, buy it and shoot it. No worries.

Gentlemen, "I did it and nothing happened" does not prove or disprove anything. I am told to wash my hands before a meal, and I ate with dirty hands many times, nothing happened.
On shooting steel from a Tokarev, well God bless, that's what they built it for. Or AK rifles for that matter. Again, the extractor will likely be the first to give in, but it may endure a long punishment. If you are in a military where they issue steel cased ammo, no problem. Your own soul mate pistol, why take chances a few bucks worth. Again, I'd go with what Springfield Armory tells me.

YZ, Springfield also says not to use reloaded ammunition...

It probably won't "break" your pistol but wear will be accelerated on some parts. Brass is a much better material for a cartridge case that needs to expand and seal and then contract back to less than chamber dia. I'll stick with brass as long as it's available.

YZ said:

Gentlemen, "I did it and nothing happened" does not prove or disprove anything.

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Actually, it does prove something, especially when there are literally thousands of us (many of the them here at THR) who have used steel cased ammo by the thousands, and in many cases, in several pistols.

Steel cased ammo is just fine and makes it possible for those of us who have limited funds to shoot just a little more often. That's a good thing.

YZ said:

Gentlemen, "I did it and nothing happened" does not prove or disprove anything.

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Huh? I bet if you pulled the trigger of your [confirmed loaded] gun and nothing happened you'd have proven something. The same thing can be said about your wife's response to you. If you speak and she does or says nothing and that nothing keeps happening I'd say something is in the process of being proven. The examples are endless where a "nothing" reaction proves something. Shoot, pulling a ripcord and nothing happening is going to prove the existence of inertia in just a few minutes.

It was explained to me that it takes an equal or harder steel to damage another steel. Your extractor is harder steel than the case so you are perfectly fine.

Got it. I say steel ammo in large quantities is bad for most Western manufactured guns. You say no it ain't, because you used it and so far nothing happened. Okay.

YZ said:

Got it. I say steel ammo in large quantities is bad for most Western manufactured guns. You say no it ain't, because you used it and so far nothing happened. Okay.

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No need to get defensive. If you have evidence that supports using steel ammo damages guns just post it.

Not defensive at all. We exchanged opinions, disagreed, and I am ready to leave it at that. For a better authority, try Massad Ayoob or another expert of record. Good shooting.

Yea ... cartridge brass is in the teens on the Rockwell 'C' scale - mild steel casings are in the upper 20's - a pistol extractor should be in the upper 50's.

No chance of damage. They are both far too soft.