Quote History Originally Posted By cherenkov:
The CMP sold Wolf 30 carbine for a while. If it really was out of spec or severely wore out parts, I'd expect they would advise against its use rather than offer it.
The steel vs brass cased ammo debate goes on. Brass remains prolific for a reason yet steel cased ammo has a solid reputation.
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Quote History Originally Posted By cherenkov:Originally Posted By lew:
The problem with Wolf, Tula, et al... is rarely the material, though the cases are a bit harder. The problem is the overall ammo quality.
The CMP sold Wolf 30 carbine for a while. If it really was out of spec or severely wore out parts, I'd expect they would advise against its use rather than offer it.
The steel vs brass cased ammo debate goes on. Brass remains prolific for a reason yet steel cased ammo has a solid reputation.
Again, it's rarely the base material that is the issue; rather the quality overall
coupled with the base material.
I've shot some Wolf .30 Carbine that was great and I also tore down four hundred rounds for the bullets since performance was utter crap. The Herters and Wolf 5.56 I had gave lots of issues in various rifles- a smattering of ARs and an XCR-L. The Brown Bear and Wolf 7.62x54R performed quite poorly on paper. Brass-cased from
better manufacturers performed with no problems in all of those firearms aforementioned.
Eastern European steel case is rarely renowned for its phenomenal consistency. I'm sure American-made steel cased ammo would be just fine.
In a Carbine, you will get functioning issues at-worst. In something less-forgiving like an FAL or other tilting bolt that lacks primary extraction, the user is pinning a lot on the cartridge holding up its end of the bargain. Steel-cased ammo available as of recently has the reputation it deserves, which certainly isn't "solid".
Lastly, and I'm not passing judgement on the particular scenario you mentioned, but I, for one, don't concern myself much with what the CMP does or does not do. Infallible, they are far from.
P.S. I didn't mention anything about parts wearing prematurely.