Steel case and aluminum case ammo

S&W revolverman said:
Here is my opinion: Steel cased ammo COULD cause premature wear or even breakage of the extractor. Steel on steel - not good.
Aluminum cased ammo - no problem, as aluminum lots softer than steel as is brass.
But, I know lots of folks shoot steel cased ammo and never had any problems. For that, I say - go for it.
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I will only shoot steel cased ammo out of an AK, because they were designed for it. But when Wolfe was $79 a thou, I wouldn’t buy it, but a few times I was given a few boxes for free, & my Chinese AK loved it. OTOH years ago I shot aluminum case ammo from a revolver, but the empty cases expanded in the cylinder after firing, & were difficult to remove. GARY.
 
Have fired steel cased ammo in my Colt AR-15 with complete success. On target results were indistinguishable from results obtained with domestic ball ammo. Have fired a boat load of steel and aluminum cased ammunition in .38, 9mm, .45ACP with not one single instances of any problems at all. During those years I did have three rounds fail to fire ... .38 Special Magtec... brass cased. Have won local pistol matches shooting Wolf in 9mm or .45ACP depending on what pistol I at that time owned. Have also shot a pile of .45 ACP steel cased Wolf in my 625-2. Fired it w/ and w/o moon clips. Have not ever had a single problem at all. Fired from my RIA 1911-A1 I can say that the Tula .45 ACP 230 gr. RN ammo will hit a junk minnow bucket time after time firing across a convenient farm pond. True, the RIA had been tweaked a bit to enhance its on target accuracy, but regardless, the ammunition had to be good for such consistent hits to be made at that distance. I am thankful that in my stash of ammo I still have almost a whole case of Tula 9mm. That stuff works great. Wish I could get my hands on some of the steel cased Tula .45 ACP. I very much liked it for local matches since finding cases in the grass for later reloading was so difficult. Sincerely. bruce.
 
by the time you wear out a barrel from the bi-metal jacket, you have saved enough on steel ammo to replace the barrel several times over. If you are shooting in a nitrided barrel, it will last even longer, as nitrided steel is Rockwell C just under 70. A 4150 or 416R barrel is around 42 C. Huge difference.
 
I had one failure-to-eject with aluminum cased ammo in my Canik TP9. After confirming the stuck round was spent, I dropped the mag, racked the slide a few times and disassembled at the firing line. A bit of tap-tap-tap with a cleaning rod and the empty popped out. Buttoned it all back together and kept on going.

I love that Canik - first gen TP9SA ... it eats everything I feed it. It runs clean, it runs dirty, it runs wet, it runs dry. It's a fork .. it just works.
 
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