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Posted: 2/10/2007 6:26:48 PM EDT
| i was told by my local gunsmith who owns shoots ar's regularly to stay AWAY from wolf, at least the polymer coated stuff.. but after checking a lot of ammo sites, there is a majority of wolf out there, is this stuff really worth staying away from, and also if your looking for some good plinking ammo for the range, but want to buy in a large quanity-500rds who has the best deals, thanks guys |
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There is a ton of reviews and info tacked at the top of the forum. WOLF (Polymer Coating) Reviews Radway Green Reviews Hope that helps. |
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I'm pretty new to AR-15s and I'm not really sure what to tell you. I guess just reading the reviews will give you a good idea in what to expect for each type of ammo. Once you have an idea in what you are looking for, there is another tack that keeps an update of what some dealers have in stock and what their prices are. Ammo isn't really cheap, even if you buy in bulk. And it doesn't seem like the price is going down. Going rate seems to be, more or less, 300 dollars for 1000 rounds. Finding what you want thats in stock is half the battle, and the price is changing pretty much daily. You almost have to draw your own conclusions, buy some to try it out, and be happy you bought it the day before the prices go up again. |
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The Wolf poly is good ammo. Maybe not the cleanest, or most accurate, but it's good practice ammo. At least give it a try. If you want to shoot a lot of relatively inexpensive plinking ammo, and price is a concern, you are screwing yourself not to at least give it a try. If it don't work for you, don't buy any more. It works fine for me in both of my ARs. As I understand it, the only potential problems were with the older Wolf lacquer ammo, and that seems to be more of a "perceived" problem rather than an actual one, unless you were doing full-auto mag dumps. - Hetzer |
| I've shot over 10,000 rounds of Wolf from my AR's. Seven thousand of those the old laquar covered ammo. I have NEVER had even one ammo related problem with any of my AR's using Wolf ammo. The gunsmith is full of shit. But you should feel free to buy Black Hills or Hornaday TAP. |
| I shoot Wolf regularly in my AR's. Two Colts, two DPMS's. It works as well as anthing else I've used and better than most bargain ammo. I've probably got over 10K rounds of .223 downrange and not a single ammo related FTF so far. I use it in 9mm for both my UZI's and in .45 for my Thompson. It is reliable, consistent, cheap ammo. I'm not a target shooter or hunter, just a blaster, with an auto sear, but if your gun has problems with Wolf ammo, it's the gun, not the ammo. Remember that when someone badmouths it. |
These days, nowhere unless it drops in your lap. The tacked price thread is a good start, and those are just the big ones. Deals are out there, but finding them before everyone else is a bit of work. |
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I know people want to take the word of their local firearm guy but alot of the time that guy is cluless. He might seem like he knows what he's talking about and he may even sound convincing but he doesn't know everything. In this case he is completely wrong about Wolf Polymer, I could understand him saying stay away from laquer cased (although I don't agree with that either) but the polymer stuff is very reliable, well made ammo. It's not match grade stuff but for range shooting and the price it is the best practice ammo out there right now. The polymer coating will not melt off when the chamber gets hot, it's not going to blow up your rifle and if you have a properly working AR it will fire every round with no problem. The only problems people have with Wolf is ejection problems, cycling problems and things like that and the reason is because Wolf is underpowered. But that doesn't really mean there is a problem with the ammo it's more of a combination of you AR and the ammo. If you have one of those problems you can fix your AR to shoot wolf. Anytime you here about something being crappy come here and find out if it's true or not. I have shot thousands of rounds of Wolf with no problems. |
thats great news for me, cause that means more available for myself since it is all I shoot! |
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My M16A1 doesn’t mind Wolf ammo. It’s dirtier, and when on Full Auto it doesn’t cycle as fast. And it is great for just plinking around and punching holes into targets. But don’t expect great accuracy from it, Wolf just isn’t made for it. Of course I’m going to have to checkout their brass cartridges one of these days, but that’s another day and thread. 
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The other day I ran some poly Wolf 55 grain through my Norinco M84S. It was so accurate in that rifle it scared me! According to most gun blacksmiths I must've been hallucinating, even tho' I never dropped acid back in the '60s. Not like they would want to sell you more expensive stuff as opposed to cheap plinking ammo of course. Obviously at 30+ cents a round for brass-cased .223 the Wolf MUST be crap. Puleeeze. It's dirty, but fine for pushing holes in cans or paper. When the zombies or commies are banging on the door we'll drop back to the 75 grain nuclear tipped two dollar a round super duper tactical platinum coated rounds some seem so enamored of. Not that it really matters, since Hilliary's JBTs will be rounding us all up long before the EOTWAWKI ........... |
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