Interesting article, very detailed. I reload for son's AR, only run a couple hundred rounds each year. Yes, it would be cheaper for him to buy steel, he shoots so little....
Quite an article. Well written, and detailed. But I wonder if it's "real world" or not. How many folks shot that many rounds in a life time? High volumes of ammo were shot in a short period of time. Again, how many of us shoot like that? Might mean some thing for a 'real world battle rifle', but how do these tests apply to real world weekend shooters? Still, I enjoyed reading it.
Good read. Not quite real word but definitely real data. I still hold that im going to stay away from steel and bi-metal stuff. but if its what i can get i will absolutely run it.
I have a sealed case of steel stuff, 480 rounds, purchased at the height of the last panic. Having bought individual boxes of the stuff to function test, it works but it's the last ditch stuff or barter material.
jsjj, if a fella got a steel case stuck it would probably be permanent, don'tcha think?I think
I believe I still have some 7.62 X 39 steel cased stuff from back when I bought my SKS. Geez...that was over 20 years ago, maybe 30. Seems it had a copper colored wash? It worked but I've fired precious little of it.
I've gotten steel cases stuck in chambers, just beat them out with a cleaning rod. It only took me once to learn, just don't leave one in a hot chamber and your good to go.
Now that you mention Norinco I think some of it might be.....you've got me curious now, I'll have to dig it out. I'm trying to remember when I bought that thing and about the best I can come up with is before or right around 1990. I bought my M-1 carbine about the same time. I definitely remember buying 1,000 rounds of carbine ammo for a hundred dollar bill.
What I know is that I had no problems reloading steel cases. However, they felt "wrong," like they were sticking to the chamber and the gun was having a problem ejecting them, and they didn't group any where near the brass case ammo.
I don't understand why you would pay $800-$2500 for a gun and then feed it cheap ammunition to "save" some money.
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