BAD AMMO???

[deadly50bmg]

I know that everyone out there knows the pluses of having quality ammo. Taking that into consideration, is cheap ammo (i.e. Wolf ammo, or silver bear ammo) with steel casings bad for your gun? or is it just really inacurate and inconsistant? Will this cheap ammo hurt a good rifle if you just use it for plinking? For instance, I own a nice Rem700 and have excellent success with this rifle with FGMM and Black hills. It does get very expensive however shooting that stuff up every weekend. If I were to just want to fling some lead down range would the wolf ammo hurt?

Thanks guys.

 

[Cacique500]

Wolf ammo will not hurt your rifle.

I have many thousands of rounds of Wolf through my Colt 6920 (AR), SKS's, AK's, and 1911's. It's always been an excellent brand for plinking and I've never had any problems with 'broken extractors' or any of the other anti-Wolf BS you hear.

Good cheap ammo for plinking!

 

[deadly50bmg]

thats what I wanted to hear! anyone else have anything to add?

 

[R.H. Lee]

I use Wolf 7.62x39 all the time in my SKS's and it works flawlessly.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

I got hold of a brick of Klimosk Stamping Company .22 rimfire
sold under the "Junior" brand name. The only .22 rifle it will
extract from is my Rumanian Army Training Rifle. All other
.22 rifles, the Klimosk shells stick.

We have plenty of folks at the gun club who use Wolf in 9mm,
.223, 7.62x39 and 7.62x54R with no complaints. I have used
various manufacture steel case ammo in my Mosin Nagant
with no problems. But that Klimosk Junior .22 is the exception.
(Klimosk is outside Moscow.)

Steelcase ammo is often lacquered for rustproofing and can
leave lacquer in the chamber. The Russkies appear to have
worked out most of the problems of making steel cases work.

Just remember: cheap ammo for practice, quality ammo for
betcher life.

 

[Preacherman]

A quality gun generally does better with quality ammo. Some manufacturers go so far as to post specific warnings about some brands of ammo: for example, Olympic Arms warns against certain lots of Winchester, and the use of Wolf and other lacquer-coated ammo, in their AR15's (see here for their warning).

 

[beerslurpy]

The latest wolf stuff is top notch. It looks like lacqured but it is really coated with some sort of smooth polymer. Guys with bolt guns have been shooting sub moa groups with the 154gr SP 7.62x39.

Even the AR crowd seems to be coming around to it lately. I would imagine the smooth polymer stuff would feed a lot better in an AR than the lacquered garbage.

 

[garrett1955]

i love my wolf. the 154 grain soft point shoots like match ammo. lol i dont think there is match ammo for an ak lol. but yeah no jams shoots a very nice group. i'm buying another 1000 in the next month! stay away from olympic. just crapola there!

 

[MechAg94]

Wolf works just fine in my Armalite. I haven't done any bench testing, but it shoots well enough for me. I intend to do some more shooting with it. I have a bunch of S&B brass ammo to compare.