Tula Ammo now sold at Wal-Mart

[devildog4329]

I have ran a box of 9mm through my glock 19 and a box of 380 through my Diamondback. So far I have had one round of 380 misfire. I had a firm firing pin strike so i just chalked it up to one bad round. One other thing i noticed was that the Tula ammo was not as hot as WWB 9mm and Aguila 380. that I had at the range. The recoil in my DB was almost non existant comapared to the Aguila 380.

I will continue to run this when i need some cheap ammo for the range.

 

[J_McLeod]

Id love to meet the guy who carries Tula in a gun for SD/HD, I don't know what id do or say but rest assured it would be funny.

If a gun cant shoot steel cases without damage id be looking into why the gun is weak in that area.
Also i wont be buying much more Tula until i find an indoor range that allows the use of steel cases, The one i normally uses wont allow it. Im looking for a new range tho.

If i do experience a Squib i will NOT buy it anymore, But dud primers don't scare me.
IMO its cheap and available and it makes the guys who reload stop following me around like im a broken ATM spitting out dollars.

If Tula made decent hollowpoints that were available in WA state and comparable to a Hydra Shok or PDX I wouldn't mind carrying it in my XD for SD/HD.

If the SHTF all my rifle (WASR and KT SU-16) mags are full of Russian ammo.

 

[DasFriek]

If Tula made decent hollowpoints that were available in WA state and comparable to a Hydra Shok or PDX I wouldn't mind carrying it in my XD for SD/HD.

If the SHTF all my rifle (WASR and KT SU-16) mags are full of Russian ammo.

For one they will not be making HP's anytime soon im pretty sure, But if they did i would NOT carry it in my CCW unless it was proven to be one of the most reliable rounds in feeding,ignition,accuracy,penetration and expansion.

If SHTF id shoot anything i could get my hands on also, But if i starting finding primer duds id surely use it as a last resort.

I have no reason not to shoot the ammo they have out now, Its hard to guess what will happen in the future. But the ammo is a practice range ammo and thats all i see it for at this point.
And since my local indoor range doesn't allow steel cases i wont be stocking up on it until spring again.

 

[Motodeficient]

Ran some of the 9mm through my XD. No problems (not that I expected any). Unfortunately my local walmart does not sell Federal in 9mm. They have it in every other handgun caliber. Strange. So the Tula is $4 cheaper than the WWB.

 

[TNT in Round Rock]

saw some today in .380 and they had quite a bit .. the Winchester .380 only had one 100 rd box. Hesitated on the Tula until I could read up on it, but I may have to try it for practice since it's a little cheaper.

 

[Erik M]

Bought a few more boxes of .223 for stocking stuffers

 

[mongo4567]

I've shot 400 or so rounds of the 9mm, I really don't like it much. I've had several failures to fully eject on a Beretta 92, like it is a little under-powered. This gun runs 100% on anything else. I can't even shoot it in my Arg Hi-Power, it fails to fire about 50% of the time....like it has a very hard primer. Wolf, Monarch or WWB do fine in the same pistol. I won't be buying any more.

 

[Patriotme]

I've shot about 200 rnds of .223 through my AR's. It all went bang and my guns functioned fine with it. I will say that the accuracy was clearly worse than that of Wolf, Brown Bear or Silver Bear. I'll just go ahead and say that it was the least accurate stuff I've ever shot out of my AR's.

 

[Kwanger]

I've shot about 200 rnds of .223 through my AR's. It all went bang and my guns functioned fine with it. I will say that the accuracy was clearly worse than that of Wolf, Brown Bear or Silver Bear. I'll just go ahead and say that it was the least accurate stuff I've ever shot out of my AR's.

I agree - the Tula works, but accuracy is ropey. You can even feel the variances in loading sometimes. For what it is, the Brown Bear is at least very consistent stuff and is the same price as Tula, I'll be sticking with that.

Wolf though, = Tula. Same stuff, made by the same factory chain. I think if you've had a box of Wolf that seemed better than Tula, it is more to do with overall quality control in individual batches than it is to do with brand name.

 

[bang_bang]

My friend and I have bought .223, 7.62x39, 40, and 9mm from Wal-Mart locally.

He has fired several boxes through his S&W MP15 with no issues. Decent accuracy.

We also put probably 20 or so rounds of 40 and 9mm through his Glock 27 with the 9mm conversion barrel. Again, decent accuracy. The 9mm, as he said, were "Hotter than Hell!!" due to their 115gr bullet weight.

I have bought a few boxes of 7.62x39 just to stock up on, as well as a few boxes of .223. $5 or $10 here and there when I run into Wal-Mart will eventually add up. Might as well get it while it's here and still cheap!! I have no concerns about shooting this in my SKS.

 

[Patriotme]

I agree - the Tula works, but accuracy is ropey. You can even feel the variances in loading sometimes. For what it is, the Brown Bear is at least very consistent stuff and is the same price as Tula, I'll be sticking with that.

Wolf though, = Tula. Same stuff, made by the same factory chain. I think if you've had a box of Wolf that seemed better than Tula, it is more to do with overall quality control in individual batches than it is to do with brand name.

I've had a lot of luck with 55gr Brown Bear. It actually shoots better than a lot of American brands such as Remington and American Eagle. This has been my experience. I'm sure some are screaming "Heresy" right now. Even my wife and daughter can see a noticable difference when using 55gr Brown Bear at the bench.
I agree that Wolf is very inconsistent. There was a Tula salesman at a local gunshow that claimed that Wolf was run at several different factories in Russia and that's why it's inconsistent. He claimed that Tula came from one factory and the quality control is better. I took this with a grain of salt but I have noticed that the Wolf and Tula salesmen do not want to be associated with the other's product line. Tula is the cheapest .223 that I've seen. I'll pick up a box every now and then at a gun show or online. I take a lot of new shooters to the pistol range and at the end of the day I'll walk them over to the rifle range and let them shoot a mag through an AR. This lets them know that AR's are not machineguns despite how they're shown on CNN and MSNBC. I've even had hunters be suprised that my M&P15 isn't really a machinegun. It's more about education than serious range time and a box of Tula is worth it.

 

[Kwanger]

There was a Tula salesman at a local gunshow that claimed that Wolf was run at several different factories in Russia and that's why it's inconsistent. He claimed that Tula came from one factory and the quality control is better. I took this with a grain of salt but I have noticed that the Wolf and Tula salesmen do not want to be associated with the other's product line.

Absolutely.....as with most things in our modern world, it has become a huge marketing game. Simple fact of the matter is that today, most base parts for just about anything mass produced (not just weapons related), come from surprisingly few sources, when you really distill it down. It is then up to marketing departments to put spin on the products....hence the disassociation you have experienced. Such is the way of the globalized world.

Tula ammo (and its marketed spin equivalents) actually is produced across several plants, depending on caliber, etc; as far as I understand it, most of the steel cased 223 comes from either the Tula or Ulyanovsk plants. I should imagine that individual batch lots come from either one or the other....however, I should also imagine that this can be flip-flopped depending on output and demand from the "brands".

The Bear stuff (and Monarch, and probably some more brand names, somewhere) comes from the Barnaul family of plants.

 

[InkEd]

I commented earlier on this ammo. It's still okay BUT after a slightly longer range session and I will agree that it is some of the dirtiest ammo ever.

When I field stripped my 1911 (after only 150rds) it looked filthier than my GSG-5 after a BRICK of Thunderbolt (which is considered dirty even for .22 ammo.)

Most of my TulAmmo was shot from 9mm pistols. It seems to be loaded inconsistantly. Also, there was alot of light blue muzzle flash when used in my CW9. It didn't feel like "hot" ammo, it jut had alot of flash. Go figure?

I had no misfires or anything but in the future given a choice I will probably spend the extra money for Federal or Blazer, if it's only a dollar more.

Lastly, I can't give an accurate report for accuracy because I was very out of practice and just not shooting well that day.

 

[herkyguy]

I just shot 100 rounds of Tulammo in 9mm out of my XD SC yesterday. It was $9.50 or so per box at walmart and thought I'd give it a go. Out of 100 rounds, I had two malfunctions. I should also say that Federal FMJ has never given me any trouble of that XD, although it is somewhat new and I haven't fed a ton through it yet, but for the sake of the argument, I'll assume my XD is not the problem.

1st malfunction was a failure to load. After firing a round, I pulled the trigger again and found that the striker was not 'cocked.' nor was the slide locked back. I pulled the slide, saw that another round was indeed still in the magazine, racked it and fired it off. Perhaps this was due to insufficient powder??

2nd malfunction was a failure to feed. After a shot, the slide was locked partially to the rear. looking down, there was a round partilally seated in the chamber with about half the shell protruding out. Below that was a second round partially fed out of the magazine and this had locked the slide. I cleared it and continued to fire.

this stuff is not bad for practice, but certainly not reliable enough for me to use it in any other scenario. Perhaps the steel case (which felt overly rough) is to blame for the second. either way, it has its problems.

 

[bigfatdave]

1st ... Perhaps this was due to insufficient powder??

Or grunge in the mag preventing the follower/rounds from popping up fast enough, check in there for filth.

2nd

Maybe an out-of specification round? Too fat, not circular, or a burr on the case perhaps?