Posted: 11/13/2006 4:49:06 PM EDT
| Anyone try or use this stuff? It's about $5 more than Wolf per case (1000), and reloadable brass I'm told... |
It averaged around 3150 in a 20" barrel. That's about 100 feet per second less than M193 spec but still decent. I found two of the five rounds I shot went off as flyers in the 5 o'clock position giving me the worst group of the day. Three of the shots were in a one inch group at 50 yards with the two flyers making it about a 2 1/2 inch group. It was shocking to see. They would have been off the steel if shot at a 250 yard PR target. |
Is Wolf generally more accurate and/or consistent? |
The steel case Russian made .223 Wolf is inaccurate and low powered. The brass case Serbian mad(e) .223 Wolf would violate my rule of rule of buying ammo from a country Clinton bombed the shit out of a few years ago. I expect they are still pissed and that might explain the occasional kaboom I've read about. 
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OK so aside from the $3.99/20 deals at GI Joes and most recently BI-Mart, what ammo to buy and at what price??? |
You can't shoot PR with it but here is some M855 ADCOM from the Sportsmans Guide. I bought some a few months ago and after about 400 or so rnds, no problems. I've heard of bad batches coming out back in 98 or 99 but the stuff SG is selling is more current. ETA: It's $175 per 1K before any discounts or shipping. |
The link says 1990's Production, so I don't see how this is "newer" than a 98/99 headstamp 
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I think that if you fired more rounds (10 round group) you would find that those wern't 'flyers' but that the group would fill in. Guat shoots, but if you're trying longish range (10" gong at 300 yards) hitting is going to take some luck. BSW |
Surplus Ammo -- he doesn't have much left though. I pre-ordered 1,000 at $175 to pick up at the show on Friday. Also 500 Wolf cuz it's cheap and I want to see if it runs OK in my (NOW TWO!) AR's, AND some steel-core British military stuff so I can shoot Practical Rifle
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