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Posted: 1/24/2011 6:41:36 PM EDT
Hi everyone I've been looking around on here for a few days now and I finally decided to get an ar-15. I haven't bought one yet but I know I want it in 5.56 NATO Caliber but I was wondering if TulAmmo is ok for an AR. I shoot the TulAmmo 9mm in my glock and It is very dirty but my glock handles it well, and I just don't want to run it through a new ar if it is bad for them. This will be the .223 ammo not 5.56? thanks 
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You can shoot it but chances are you will have a lot of failures with it. I have shot it through all my rifles and experienced failures with each and every one using Tula...(BCM and Noveske)
The ammo is just underpowered and most of my failures were failure to feeds. Basically the underpowered ammo wouldn't cycle the rifle enough to chamber another round essentially making my rifles single shot. |
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ok thanks, just wanted to know because walmart had the stuff on sale and i didn't want to buy a bunch then it not work right or hurt the gun. IT most likely isn't that much cheaper than xm193. You can get 500 rounds for less than $145 from aim surplus. http://www.aimsurplus.com/product.aspx?item=AFED223XM193&name=Federal+.223+XM193+55grn+20rd+Box&groupid=21 |
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ok thanks, just wanted to know because walmart had the stuff on sale and i didn't want to buy a bunch then it not work right or hurt the gun. IT most likely isn't that much cheaper than xm193. You can get 500 rounds for less than $145 from aim surplus. http://www.aimsurplus.com/product.aspx?item=AFED223XM193&name=Federal+.223+XM193+55grn+20rd+Box&groupid=21 that's $.29 cents per round before shipping. i can sometimes get tula for around $.18 cents per round. that means i can buy 800 rounds of tula or 500 rounds of federal. i wouldn't use tula for defensive use but for training i get about two additional repetitions per dollar. for training, cheap steal case is an excellent cost savings. hornady markets steel case ammo specifically for training because it's cheaper. OP might also want to check the tacks in the ammo forum for further information. ETA: used steel cased ammo (wolf, tula, brown bear, silver bear) in FN's, Msar's, and Busmasters without problems. |
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Tula is just fine. Buy a couple of boxes and if your gun eats it then you are good to go. Just clean your AR more often, which alot of people clean after every range trip. I have put Tula and Wolf through all of my ARs and it works just fine...Test 100 rounds and if it goes bang... then you know.
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| I have some Tula I bought to try. Some of my AR's run fine with it and some don't. As others have said, I suggest you buy just a few boxes to try. It might be OK ammo to blast away with and to plink with but I would suggest something better for other applications. Overall I much prefer barss cased ammo. My favorite for price, reliability, accuracy, and amount of cleaning needed is PMC Bronze. It has been very good in all resoects in all of my guns. It is available on sale at Cabelas and other places quite regularly, and the sale price, coupled with the discount or money off flyers they send out makes it a good deal. I don't buy it when it's not on sale and without a discount card, I just wait for when it's priced right. Try whatever your going to shoot in YOUR gun(s) to see how it works for you before you buy any large quantity. Good luck and have fun....<><....:) |
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