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First off Wolf ammo is new mfg. ammo at a price competative with surplus ammo. It is cost effective(cheap) ammo for practice not match shooting.
The laquer coating of the cases does not melt or become soft in the hot barrel of a firearm causing the cases to stick in the chamber. It is the primer and bullet sealer that does this not the laquer coating. Excessive amounts of sealer were applied to the primer and it was allowed to run down onto the rear of the case. The same with the bullet sealer a excessive amount was applied and it ran down onto the neck and shoulder of the case. The excessive amount of sealers does not pose a problem in most rifles. But off brand AR-15 rifles or AR-15 kit guns that don't have a chamber that is cut to military specifications and chrome lined had problems with the Wolf ammo. The large amount of surface area on the case covered with sealer became sticky from the heat of the barrel and offered more resistance to the case being pulled from the chamber than the exstraction force of the design of the AR-15 rifle has. If you compare the amount of bullet sealer on the necks of other brands of ammo you will see that the Wolf sealer is covering 50 times the amount of surface area of the case. The same with the primer sealer it is only on the rear of the case around the primer on other brands and the Wolf sealer is covering 1/4 of rear of the case. The surface area covered by the bullet and primer sealer on the Wolf ammo is 100's of times as much as the bullet sealer covers on other brands of ammo.
In the pic you can see the arrows are pointing to the sealer that has run down onto the neck and body of the cartridge. Both cartridges are Wolf and the one on the left is the 55gr bullet load and the one on the right is the 62gr bullet load.
Wolf started receiving complaints about cases sticking in chambers and getting bad reviews on the internet. The people that were having problems didn't take the time to find out why the cases were sticking. They just looked at the Wolf ammo and saw it had a laquer coated steel case instead of a brass case. Then blamed the laquer coating because it was different from the brass cased surplus ammo they had no sticking problems with.
The Russian company that mfgs. the ammo
http://tcwammo.tula.ru/win/english/main.html
They stopped using primer and bullet sealer on the 223 ammo but the damage was done by the internet rumors that the laquer on the cases was the problem. As anyone in marketing/sales will tell you Wolf made the only move they could and that is to change the look of the ammo. If the ammo looks the same people are not going to buy it even though the problem was corrected. So they changed the laquer to polymer and also changed the color so people could see at a glance it was different new/improved ammo.
The laquer coating of the cases does not melt or become soft in the hot barrel of a firearm causing the cases to stick in the chamber. It is the primer and bullet sealer that does this not the laquer coating. Excessive amounts of sealer were applied to the primer and it was allowed to run down onto the rear of the case. The same with the bullet sealer a excessive amount was applied and it ran down onto the neck and shoulder of the case. The excessive amount of sealers does not pose a problem in most rifles. But off brand AR-15 rifles or AR-15 kit guns that don't have a chamber that is cut to military specifications and chrome lined had problems with the Wolf ammo. The large amount of surface area on the case covered with sealer became sticky from the heat of the barrel and offered more resistance to the case being pulled from the chamber than the exstraction force of the design of the AR-15 rifle has. If you compare the amount of bullet sealer on the necks of other brands of ammo you will see that the Wolf sealer is covering 50 times the amount of surface area of the case. The same with the primer sealer it is only on the rear of the case around the primer on other brands and the Wolf sealer is covering 1/4 of rear of the case. The surface area covered by the bullet and primer sealer on the Wolf ammo is 100's of times as much as the bullet sealer covers on other brands of ammo.
In the pic you can see the arrows are pointing to the sealer that has run down onto the neck and body of the cartridge. Both cartridges are Wolf and the one on the left is the 55gr bullet load and the one on the right is the 62gr bullet load.
Wolf started receiving complaints about cases sticking in chambers and getting bad reviews on the internet. The people that were having problems didn't take the time to find out why the cases were sticking. They just looked at the Wolf ammo and saw it had a laquer coated steel case instead of a brass case. Then blamed the laquer coating because it was different from the brass cased surplus ammo they had no sticking problems with.
The Russian company that mfgs. the ammo
http://tcwammo.tula.ru/win/english/main.html
They stopped using primer and bullet sealer on the 223 ammo but the damage was done by the internet rumors that the laquer on the cases was the problem. As anyone in marketing/sales will tell you Wolf made the only move they could and that is to change the look of the ammo. If the ammo looks the same people are not going to buy it even though the problem was corrected. So they changed the laquer to polymer and also changed the color so people could see at a glance it was different new/improved ammo.
