Steel 223/5.56 ammo

[stenz]

Looking at buying some ammo and due to the savings on steel ammo vs brass I am considering picking up some Tul/wolf/bear.

This would just be for target practice. Does anyone shoot steel often and have any real life experience with this stuff?

Thanks

[StagLefty]

Nothing wrong with shooting steel ammo. Never had any problems.

[DEAGLER]

Don't think there's 5.56 steel. But I could be wrong

[stenz]

It's early, I was just about to have coffee when I posted this. Thanks for moving it.

Thanks for the replies so far.

[Wulf202]

It's fine for small range sessions. It can lock up in an ar15 that got real hot then chambered and left like that.

[Great-Kazoo]

Looking at buying some ammo and due to the savings on steel ammo vs brass I am considering picking up some Tul/wolf/bear.

This would just be for target practice. Does anyone shoot steel often and have any real life experience with this stuff?

Thanks

Yes it works. Go to walmart, buy a few boxes to road test, some rifles are finicky. If you like the accuracy and performance, buy a few cases on line.

[funkymonkey1111]

It's about all I shoot any more. Wolf, Tula, golden tiger, silver bear--whatever is cheapest. It all works just fine

one anecdotal comment people make (I have no idea if any of the complaints are accurate) is that the steel is hard on the extractor. I've also read a way around this is to just have a dedicated BCG for steel ammo.

The other big whiny complaint is it's "dirtier" than other ammo. Again, no idea if this is true. Cleans up just fine. Speaking of "small range sessions," I've shot entire 3 day rifle classes with Tula without any issue. To me, like HBAR says, it seems like something people just want to bitch about

[Wulf202]

I've seen it happen like clock work to a rifle. Once the chamber gets hot as hell and a case sits in there for a bit the case sticks.

That's the only circumstances that I've ever seen that were directly caused by steel cased ammo in an ar it's avoidable if you know about it. Some rifles won't do it. Depends on barrel and action type etc I'm sure but to each there own.

Somebody went and shot 10k rounds of all the cheap ammo thru identical rifles and did a full tear down. I'll see if I can find it

[funkymonkey1111]

http://www.luckygunner.com/labs/brass-vs-steel-cased-ammo/

[ray1970]

I've had a couple of rifles over the years that would absolutely choke on the steel cased stuff. Those same rifles ran like a top with the brass stuff. For me, personally, I just avoid the steel cases. But I've seen other rifles that ran it just as well as the brass stuff.

I'm going to have to agree with Kazoo and say buy a few boxes first and see how you and the rifle like it before investing in a large quantity of it.

[hurley842002]

I've had a couple of rifles over the years that would absolutely choke on the steel cased stuff. Those same rifles ran like a top with the brass stuff. For me, personally, I just avoid the steel cases. But I've seen other rifles that ran it just as well as the brass stuff.
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Same experience here, in fact, the most expensive AR I've owned (Daniel Defense), wouldn't run steel case ammo for crap.

[funkymonkey1111]

You can buy most steel ammo at SG in 100 round quantities

[00tec]

All my brass ammo is saved.
All my steel ammo is shot.
I oil the rifle with a few drops of mobil 1 every 500rds or so, run a boresnake down every 1k or so, and have done a good cleaning once since I bought it. I would say over 90% of the 5 or 6k down the pipe was steel. Had one box (20rds) that kept getting stuck in the chamber. Maybe 5 other malfunctions total.