Experience with steel-cased ammo?

[w_houle]

I fired Wolf .380 through:
Hi Point need to do something about the feed ramp, but it wasn't anything a little forward assist (not a suggested action) couldn't fix. Didn't hurt gun.
Bryco 48. Watched as the primer started pooching out and beating the frame. now all cartridges have a slight pooch when fired through it.
Bryco 38. Didn't believe the results so I made sure the slide was Kosher before firing, and it started to do the same thing as the 48
CA380 First box had lots of small problems: Had a lot of rounds that the slide didn't want to go fully into battery on and quite a few pierced primers, this is the only gun to pierce a primer with this ammo. Didn't hurt gun.
Edit: Forgot to mention that I also ran a box through my Lorcin L380 without incident. It was beat up like the Bryco

 

[Philo_Beddoe]

I have shot thousands of rounds of steel case ammo thru various pistols & rifles with no problems.

Its dirty and not the most accurate, but its great plinking ammo.

 

[WoofersInc]

Another shooter here who has run steel cased ammo through my guns. I have never had any issues from using steel cased ammo. I boought my guns to shoot them and sometimes the steel caesd stuff is the only thing available that is not completely overpriced.

 

[mjb]

In my Kel Tech 9mm it will jam. I have been told that it will also jam in AR15's. My other guns: Glock, Ruger, Colt, Sig I have shot it with no problems

 

[Marlin 45 carbine]

I've fired the Silver Bear in my Makarov with good results.
I've fired a couple boxes of it in my 5906 with good results but am apprehensive about this stuff.
I won't shoot Wolf 'black box' in anything but SKS.

 

[warman]

Just shot some Tula .45ACP through my Springfield XD45 - I found it a little harder to load into the magazine, I think because the finished surface of the steel isn't polished, but firing was fine. No feed problems and accuracy was fine...

 

[wnycollector]

I have shot a case of wolf .45 through my SIG P220 with zero problems. I cant count the number of wolf/silver bear/brown bear rounds of 9x18 I have put down range...again all w/ zero problems. IMOO com block steel case ammo gets a bad rap. All of the stuff I have used went bang when asked and hit what I aimed at!

 

[shooter1]

Current production Wolf ammo has a polymer coating. Silver Bear has a zinc coating. Both run great in my .45s and ARs. I put over 800 rds of the Wolf .45 thru a full size Kimber in the first day of a class I attended. No problems. Yeah, I shoot the stuff.
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[pirate]

I use steel case all the time in all my guns with no problems, wolf, brown bear, silver bear, barnaul and mil surp. and it has the added benefit that you can pick it up with a magnet on a stick so you don't have to bend over like you do to clean up brass.

 

[SifuGun]

I have shoot 50 rounds of Monarch bullet from Academy with My Kel tech Sub 2000. No problems. But i have been shooting brass ever since because I want to start reloading them.

 

[dakota1911]

Several years ago I shot some Wolf .45 ACP indoors and thought the smoke was almost acrid. When ammo went up recently I tried some Tula steel cased rounds and they were fine. I reload, but when it is hard to impossible to pick up the brass I go with the steel.

 

[frankt]

At the outdoor membership range I shoot at, the ground is littered with thousands of empty steel cases. Somebody is shooting a lot of it.

I reload but I have shot steel cased 9mm, .45 .223 and 7.62X39 and never had any problems other than a funky smell in the air.
In the early days some of the cases were lacquer coated and gummed up some tight chambers after extended shooting sessions.
Most companies have changed to a poly coating to eliminate that problem.