New Ammo At Wal-Mart ?

[Tomcat47]

Hi everyone,

I was at walmart picking up some ammo and things and looked at some new ammo they have started carrying.

The Ammo is STEEL cased and BERDAN primed ! ..The brand is TUL on box and of course appeared imported! So reloading is out of the question, but just for storage I thought may be ok?

I opted for the Remington and thought this is an inquiry for the fellow enthusiast on THR.

Has any one shot any of this stuff ?

.380 was $14 dollars a box.
.223 is $4.95 for 20 !

They have other calibeers pistol and rifle but I did not look at prices.

 

[bubba15301]

russian ammo

 

[Oldfalguy]

The .223 for .25/rd steel case does not sound like a deal to me in light of recent ads I have seen in that same range for brass ammo- I think CTD was one place.

 

[Gman70]

.223 seemed fine to me

I just shot 140 rounds yesterday of walmart~tula 223 55gr fmj. Was on par with winchester target ammo. Only draw back was no reloading.
Held a .75 4 rd group at 100 yrds from a ruger m77 mark 2.
Not sure how it would function in a semi..I have seen people have trouble with a steel case in a pistol.
So in all 140 rds no miss fires hang fires or squibs. Held consistent groupings..only other variable is your reciever..for 5 bux try 20 and see!

 

[bigfatdave]

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=548579&highlight=tula

Yes, everyone else shops at WalMart, too, and we generally peek at the ammo counter

 

[frankiestoys]

the tulammo works fine i use it all the time cheap made for the range

 

[KosmicKrunch]

Please rem, if your gun has a warranty, many gun Mfg do not honor guns that have shot steel case and it seems to grow daily. The new steel cased .22lr is mentioned all over the place for many mfg new and USED firearms still under warranty. I see this mostly for guns like the M4/AR series. But many are making it so for all their guns. YOU will have to check or a sticky be made here to list all the Mfg that states it so.

 

[bigfatdave]

new steel cased .22lr

This is new to me, who is making steel-case .22lr rounds?

 

[gatopardo]

I really Russian ammo is serious stuff, dirty but serious. I wouldn't hesitate to use it for self defense.

 

[CraigC]

Baffles me that folks would buy a relatively expensive rifle like an AR and feed it the cheapest garbage they can find.

 

[BearAZ737]

But if the relatively expensive AR is worth what you paid for it, it shouldn't be affected by steel cases...

 

[notamisfit]

I wish they'd kept the white box. I've still got about 15 boxes of Tula 9mm from a while ago.

Just out of curiosity, now that Tula and Ulyanovsk are selling ammo under their own brand names, what does that mean for Wolf?

 

[Full Metal Jacket]

cheap russian crap. many shoot it through their guns. i'm not one of them.

 

[MaterDei]

Walmart still sells a lot of brass cased, boxer primed ammo. If you 'feed' your guns like you would a queen then you'll be buying the more expensive stuff. Those of us who would like to shoot more with our dollars and who don't buy into the steel cased hysteria appreciate the option that Walmart gives us.

fwiw, I know some who would argue that steel cased, berdan primed ammo IS reloadable, though I'm not one of them.

 

[GCBurner]

I got some of the Tula 55gr. .223 ammo from CTD for less per box, but it probably worked out about the same if you add in shipping. I ran through about 60 rounds the other day, and it worked fine, shot decent groups, and had no failures to fire or function.

 

[K-Rod]

Sorry CraigC, you have made good points on a lot of threads but I have to agree with BearAZ737 here. I've bought & built my AR's because they are suppose to be reliable, accurate & for putting rounds down range fast. If I can't rely on my AR's to eat anything I feed them, I've wasted thousands of dollars!! I shoot a lot of Wolf & Tulammo out of my AR's & I've never really had any problems with them that couldn't be linked back to ME just being lazy & not cleaning after shooting. YES, cheap steel cased is dirty! IMO Wolf is dirtier than Tulammo, but I'm one of those guys that have just as much fun grabbing a beer or a scotch & tear down & clean my firearms after a day of shooting. I've only found problems with steel cased if I don't do this. I shoot steel cased for plinking because it's cheap & I save my brass for my handloads for serious target or hunting.

All in all, Tulammo as well as most steel cased, isn't bad if your willing too do the house cleaning after.

 

[rayman]

Walmart still sells a lot of brass cased, boxer primed ammo. If you 'feed' your guns like you would a queen then you'll be buying the more expensive stuff. Those of us who would like to shoot more with our dollars and who don't buy into the steel cased hysteria appreciate the option that Walmart gives us.

fwiw, I know some who would argue that steel cased, berdan primed ammo IS reloadable, though I'm not one of them.

I've seen it done on Youtube.

 

[DasFriek]

I know this thread is about Tula ammo, But id like to add something and maybe save someone some cash and headache.
But the RWS in 9mm they have been selling is steel cored under the brass bullet, I found out the hard way when the indoor range checked my ammo at check-in.

Ive used RWS .22lr ammo which is pretty good mid grade match ammo, So i didn't expect to get snookered buying their 9mm.

 

[dirtykid]

I ran some of that thru my bushmaster xm-15,,, seemed to cycle ok, no failures of any kind,, breech area seemed "dirtier" than normal when cleaned afterwards,, i'll stick to my american eagle's for practice or hornady for non-paper targets

 

[InkEd]

It is dirty ammo but it feed fine. Accuracy is okay. I wish they still had Blazer Brass. They say Federal Champion is the same but I don't know for fact. The Blazer Brass seemed more accurate to me. Of course, it could just be my imagination.

 

[therewolf]

It fired through my 9mm and .45ACP pistols OK...

 

[SigP229R]

I have seen this several times mentioned in threads pertaining to amm and would like if someone could explain the difference between Berdan and Boxer primed. Thanks in advance. I have also heard that Selier and Beloit has some hard primers anyone know what that's about?

 

[Hanzo581]

I found out my XD45 was defective because it choked on a couple rounds of Tula. Remember if your gun can't feed bargain steel ammo it's the gun and not the flawlessly manufacturered and painstakingly quality controlled Russian ammo. ;-)

 

[notamisfit]

I have seen this several times mentioned in threads pertaining to amm and would like if someone could explain the difference between Berdan and Boxer primed. Thanks in advance. I have also heard that Selier and Beloit has some hard primers anyone know what that's about?

Boxer and Berdan are two different, functionally equivalent types of case primers for ammunition. A Berdan primer is a brass cup designed to fit on an anvil fixed into the case. It's marginally cheaper than a Boxer primer (not really relevant until the millions-of-rounds phase of production/procurement), but can't be removed with a punch and so isn't reloadable. Boxer primers have an integral anvil and can be removed through the case, making Boxer-primed ammunition reloadable.

No clue on the S&B stuff, but not really surprised either.

 

[Spec ops Grunt]

I can't help but the hate is just lingering Cold War Rhetoric.