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Quoted: How are American pistols made differently from foreign ones that precludes the use of steel cased ammo?
WWB would be my choice
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Doesn't preclude it, but people have had FTF's with steel-cased stuff. American weapons are designed for brass-cased, that being why domestic ammo is brass-cased. Not saying that you can't use steel, but why not stick to what the weapon was desinged for ? Same reason people usually shoot foreign steel-cased ammo in rifles like AK's and SKS', they're made for steel-cased ammo and brass-cased doesn't always perform as well.
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AR/AK steel/brass issues are issues of chamber tolerances specific to those families of firearms. Pistol chambers are usually loose, reagardless of manufacturer. Chamber steel is always much harder than the case steel, so that's not an issue. Brass is "slipperier" than steel, but the polymer coating on the new wolf seems to have made the diferences negligible.
All my pistols shoot steel case wolf just fine. Colt, Norinco, Argentine 1911s, XD9, Glock, etc.
You MIGHT have accelerated wear on your extractor on ANY pistol using steel case ammo, but that simply means replacing your extractor at 10,000 rounds rather than 15, 000. I probably won't EVER shoot that much in my lifetime.