Tulammo.....
I saw this stuff for sale today. It is Russian made steel cased ammunition. A box of 50 rounds of .380 was under $14.50.
Is this stuff any good?
Good point, it is polymer coated.
Is this stuff any good?
Good point, it is polymer coated.
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If it's just the plain steel case stuff that hasn't been plated or have the plastic coating, I would be very wary of it. Years ago the first of the Russian made Wolf handgun ammo on the market was sold that way. I had all kinds of jambing trouble with it, in various pistols. 0 -
"Tulammo" is ammo made at the famous Russian Tula factory.
The Russian steel case "Wolf" ammo is made in the same factory (and is almost certainly the exact same ammo), only marketed by a different company under the Wolf brand name.
At least some of the Tula-labelled .223 is polymer coated. I have no idea whether the current manufacture pistol ammo is coated or not.
I can say that the Tula-labelled 7.62x39mm AK ammo works fine.
The WOLF .380 is supposed to have "bimetal cases" (whatever that means). I've seen it malfunction in a Ruger LCP, but I can't say if that was the gun or the ammo or both. (Wasn't my gun, and I wasn't shooting). I'd assume the Tula is the same.
I wouldn't trust this ammo for defensive use in a pistol unless I did quite a bit of testing with the gun in question to ensure reliability first.
I have shot a little bit of the Wolf steel case.45ACP through a 1911 and while the ammo itself functioned 100% it left a lot of black soot on the gun afterwards.
In general, I try to avoid using steel case ammo in pistols. Its not that this is going to blow up your gun, but steel case ammo in general tends to stick in gun chambers. That leads to greater wear and tear on gun extractors as well as increased numbers of jams.
Note that ammo *DESIGNED* for steel cases, like the 7.62x39 AK ammo, or the 7.62x54R Mosin Nagant rifle ammo has strong case tapers, specifically to help extraction.0
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