I have noticed more and more low price ammo offering steel cases. A friend of mine recently inherited an older .308 lever action rifle and we took it out to plink some rounds and try it out. We stopped at Walmart to get rounds on the way to the range and they had some dirt cheap steel cased ammo. We picked up a couple boxes to offset some Winchester rounds he had already picked up for it.
Long story short is that the steel rounds fired fine but would not extract. Every other round or so had to be tapped out with a cleaning rod because the extractor wouldn't pull it free.
Is this the fault of the steel round? Or the extractor on a very obviously old gun. Btw, all the brass rounds extracted flawlessly.
What are the pros/cons of steel rounds other than price?
Avoiding all the wive's tales and such... what is wrong with using steel round ammo?
Long story short is that the steel rounds fired fine but would not extract. Every other round or so had to be tapped out with a cleaning rod because the extractor wouldn't pull it free.
Is this the fault of the steel round? Or the extractor on a very obviously old gun. Btw, all the brass rounds extracted flawlessly.
What are the pros/cons of steel rounds other than price?
Avoiding all the wive's tales and such... what is wrong with using steel round ammo?