Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 08-14-2006, 03:23 AM   #21
Firearm Enthusiast
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 13
Interesting...

"My HK's don't like wolf ammo at all, my 2 high point carbines love it tho, so does my sks, altho it likes silver bear much better. My mosins will eat wolf ammo for lunch no worrys, but my bushmaster won't eat wolf ammo at all. It's dirty ammo, the lacquer fouls the throat of the barrel sometimes, more often than not actually.trial and error is what you'll need to see for yourself what works and what doesnt. I'll shoot wolf out of my less expensive firearms, but the quality firearms I won't."

You know, its not the lacquer coating that fouls the throat of the barrel. The reason this appears to be the problem is that the Wolf steel casings don't expand to seal the throat when fired like brass ones do and therefore the gases from the burned powder are blown back into throat/chamber when the round is extracted. If you shoot only wolf in between cleanings there will be no problem but if you shoot brass shortly after you shoot wolf you will find that the brass casings sometimes get stuck in the powder residue left over from the Wolf and you can get some "failure to extract" problems, especially in an AR because they have tight tolerances compared to AKs, SKS and other imported guns.
Metapotent is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Gun & Game - The Friendliest Gun Forum on the Internet > General > The Powder Keg

Tags
it or hate, ithate, love, wolf

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are Off



All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:45 AM.




Recent Discussions

Connect with us!
Advertisement



"It don't cost nuthin' to be nice." -- Mike West