Steel or not Steel that is the ?
I have been looking this up on the net and like always I have gotten a **** load of mixed reviews. I have shot it in only one hand gun that I own. In my Star BM and it likes it better than brass. I am thinking because of where and when that hand gun was made.
I keep hearing that Steel case is okay, the problem in in the bullet itself. There is a fine coating of copper over the bi metal bullet. This coating is thinner than that of a human hair. So when shot through you barrel with lower twist rates it will in time wear out the barrel. Also the Steel case ammo gets bad raps is because shooters will use some steel out at the range and then switch straight back to brass. Well steel bi-metal rounds are dirty just a few mags of Wolf or Tulammo in your rifle and its dirty, I have seen a few of my buddies AR15's after shooting just 60-120 rounds they are much dirtier than that of brass rounds. When they switch from steel to brass the FTF, FTE and double feeds start to rear up there ugly heads, because they did not clean there gun first before switching back to brass.
So it's up to you, if you have the money in the long run and do a lot of shooting and can replace a barrel of a few extractors after 1000+ rounds then that's cool. Me personally I will stick with brass, I know that it's cheaper to shoot steel but like my guns to last, not have to repair every few hundred rounds.
I do know a guy that has a Colt and a DPMS Ar15 5.56 nato 1/8th twist and everything else on there is fully mil-spec, he has shot like over 5000+ rounds through it and only cleans it every 1000rds and All its had through it since he got it was steel case Wolf classic .223. I have seen him shoot it and he said he has never had any failures that he can recall. I just think that some people have all the luck, some do not. He knows a guy with the same Ar15 and it failed after like only 250rds through it of Wolf Classic.
