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Here is my email to a friend who imports ammo:
Got some interesting news re Wolf .223. I went shooting on Monday and had a complete failure like I have read about. After shooting 7 mags in a fairly rapid succession (ie weapon was rather hot) the weapon started to have extraction problems. After another few rounds, I had the weapon not cycle properly. I tried to pull the charging handle back but it was stuck. So I positioned the weapon on the table and smashed the charging handle back.
It ripped the head off the case & left it still jambed into the chamber. After the weapon cooled down & I varified the round stuck was expended, I used the cleaning rod and a mallet to bust it out. Took quite a bit of force. I
then used a qtip and swabed the chamber. Came out with all the red lacqur from the round, sticky as hell!
Now I finally have first hand confirmation that once the weapon gets hot enough, it will melt the lacqur. Worked fine for light plinking, but not under sustained fire. BTW the platform was a 14.5" M16.
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Now, if you are at a 3rd grade reading level, look up at the first reply in this thread. What you mistakenly call LACQUER is actually the red SEALANT around the neck/bullet of the round. The LACQUER is the greenish brown coating that coats the ENTIRE case. You are correct that the RED SEALANT can cause FTE problems, I've had the same problems myself that you described. But, [b]WOLF NO LONGER MAKES .223 WITH RED SEALANT ON IT!!![/b] If you buy NEW STOCK you'd find that out. I purchased 1000 rounds from www.ammunitionstore.com and none of the rounds had the RED SEALANT any more. All of them functioned fine at extreme high rates of fire.
Now, I have a question for you. If the case head ripped off as you say, how did you get the rest of the stuck case out with a [b]cleaning rod and a mallet[/b]? Usually you would need a broken case extractor tool to do this?
Also, it is interesting that both you and your friends email mention that you ripped the head off the case when pounding/pulling back on the charging handle. I always found that the steel cases were so strong they wouldn't rip like that. I just had to go down the muzzle with the cleaning rod and tap it out.