Steel Ammo vs Brass Ammo

[C5GUY]

If you ever wanted to see an extensive test of steel ammo vs brass ammo then you might want to spend some time checking this out.
http://www.luckygunner.com/labs/brass-vs-steel-cased-ammo/

 

[vfin]

Nice to know. Very cool.

Thanks.

vfin

 

[BlueOvalBandit]

That's actually a very poor test for average joe wanting to know what effects steel case ammo has on their rifle. Most people don't do mag dumps for so long that the hand guards are too hot to hold. Not to mention the extractor close ups are pretty much useless, they never had a starting point for them, so how can you make a comparison?

They make it seem that you will burn up a barrel in 5k, but that's not true there are plenty of people with a higher round count than that. Heat has an ENORMOUS effect on barrel life and those were HOT. Steel on steel wear is also something that is poorly understood.

Bottom line if you plan to shoot your rifles like that you can expect those results. If you shoot "normally" it will be much different with the big issue being will your rifle even like steel cased ammo.

I've never stayed at a Holiday Inn but I do have a Mech Engineering Degree.

 

[HYRYSC]

I do agree with BlueOvalBandit, however I think that it does at least give folks a point of reference to say, "If I shoot steel ammo, I can see that I will at least save enough to replace my barrel and still be money ahead."

I also see that all steel ammo is not equal. I never did like Tula ammo, now I know why.

 

[apiccola]

A couple years ago, I got a deal on 1,000 rounds of Tula in a mixed lot of 223 and 9mm. With the 9mm rounds in my M&P9FS, I had failure to eject occurring within the first 3 shots on the OEM barrel, and the first round shot from a KKM precision barrel on the same handgun had to be beaten out with a hammer and rod. However, my Sig M11 hummed through 250 rounds of the same ammo without a hitch in the same range session (not 1 failure at all). The 223 ammo cycled at a failure rate of 1 round every 2 magazines fired through a spare Model 1 upper receiver I used on a YHM lower. The ammo shot into reasonable groups, but not consistently enough. About 10% of the rounds strayed well out of group, and half of the strays never hit paper at 25 yards.