Guys, all the Russian 762x39 is very similar and all of the stuff is made with diligence and precision by factories staffed by people who have had lifetimes of experience loading just a couple calibers. There is hardly every going to be a significant problem with any of the 762x39 ammo out of any of the Russian factories when it comes to performance or quality, much more likely any problems have something to do with the firearm itself typically including maintenance or manufacturing issues. The Russians that make this stuff really know the business of making 762x39 ammo better than anyone else in the world. If you run into a variation that you don't like with one brand or another its usually just personal perception or the fact that sometimes one firearm just 'doesn't like' a certain type or lot of a certain ammo while it works fine in another. That is called having a 'picky gun' which does not shot well with certain lots, but its usually lot specific more than manufacturer/branding because they all basically make almost the same identical product within the 762x39 Russian made ammo world loaded to very similar specs, with some subtle cosmetic differences and different branding on the packaging. A lot of the ammo in different branding even comes out of the same factories, so you can have Wolf made in the same factory as Bear, or Tula that was made at the same factory as your last case of Wolf, etc etc, this changes over time as importers contract with different factories. Other than that you can get a lot different results just because of the air temperature, which is to say ammo is going to shoot differently on a very cold day as it will on a very hot day and that will effect group size and point of impact substantially. There are other variables that can come into play as well like if you let you ammo sit out in the sun and heat up right before you shoot it the groups will widen up substantially, but 762x39 Russian ammo is just 762x39 ammo. The big advantage to Golden Tiger is that it is one of the last products to maintain that original mil-spec sealed case-mouth and primer pocket, and lacquered case, which most of the other factories have done away with to cut costs in manufacturing  consumer sales material to meet the US market demand majority to pinch every possible penny on every 762x39 purchase. The original mil-spec construction is why Golden Tiger costs $10-20 per 1000 more than other brands, plus it has to travel by train all the way from the pacific coast to the Atlantic by Train, which adds freight costs to the product price

The Romanian was something I could not pass up, with the lacquered and sealed cases and all, at the price point of non-laquered/sealed ammo too,really a great value, but a one-time deal as well. Keep in mind that the Romanian is a product that is very spotty in available and can be off the market for 2-3 years between past shipments to the USA over the last decade, unlike the mainstream brands like GT, Wolf, Tula, B/S/GBear that are almost constantly available. Considering those mainstream brands from Russia, GT is the only one to still seal the cartridge to traditional mil-spec

Also I think a lot of the testing can be mis-leading because from lot to lot, month to month, year to year, you would find similar variations in-between different lots of the exact same brand/load. The tests are inconclusive because the do not sample enough variations of different lots from the same factories. If they did they would find there is variation all the time between different lots of the same product and depending on which lots you test its going to make different findings. In the end its all basically the same stuff which is Russian steel case 762x39 ammo, and it all does basically the exact same thing.

I got my last container from this shipment the order day. Once I sell through it there will be a few weeks it is out of stock, then there will be more in about a month from today (late April)