Posted: 5/16/2003 3:53:06 PM EDT
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so what's the story about wolf ammo? anyone here shoot it in large amount ? I would like to get some but my local gun store says it's crap! so tell me your experience with it.. thanks, |
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Some like it and some don't. I think you'll find mixed feelings about Wolf ammo. I personally like it for range ammo. It's cheap but dirty, but for the price you can get alot of weapons fam time at the range with Wolf. I have a "Born again" Oly Plinker and it eats all the Wolf I can feed it. Never had a single problem, not one. Buy a 100 rounds and try it out before you invest in a case. "Born again"= Oly Plinker with upper and lower replaced with forged receivers. Kept Plinker barrel which is to me is a very accurate barrel! |
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I've seen the Wolf case's coat the chambers and jam up on ARs. AKs not so bad, though I have heard of it not being user friendly in some AK74's. Everybody is different, but I don't understand why you would pay good money for an AR, then try and shoot the cheapest ammo possible. Better ammo, South African, S&B or Federal is not that much more to buy. |
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Ive shot thousands of rounds of wolf through my bushmaster with no ill effects, no sticky chambers, no jams. it seems some rifles are picky to what they will feed and function with. i wouldnt blame the ammo for these problems, since a good combat rifle should eat anything you can feed it. mine eats every kind of ammo i have tried. if your in a fire fight in europe and run out of american ammo are u gonna ask the enemy to stop while u go get american ammo? or are u gonna pick up a ak74 and use its ammo. of course bench rifles are excluded from this since tolerances are usually tighter. its laughable when people blame the ammo for the problems they have. i beleive it was wolf ammo that sunk the russian submarine the KURSK |
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I bought 1K rounds and shot 400. It gummed my bolt up pretty bad. I sold the other 600 rds for $35. The new Wolf is not supposed to do that. I shoot reloads now for plinking. I would do as QUIB says, buy a hundred rounds and try it out. If you like it, cool. If you don't, you're not sitting on 900 rds. TS |
| I stopped shooting in about 5 1/2 years ago.. I tried it in my cheap 9mm at a range and it jammed fairly consistently. I went to the counter and switched it with some different ammo and my problems disappeared! Go figure, I figure that it's the ammo on that one. |
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To be on the safe side, leave the Wolf for Kalashnikovs. Use quality stuff like Lake City and IMI in you AR15. [img]photos.ar15.com/ImageGallery/IG_LoadImage.asp?iImageUnq=476[/img] [url=www.nra.org][b][red]NRA[/red][/url] [url=www.nra.org][blue]Life Member[/blue][/url] [url=www.gunowners.org][b][red]GOA[/red] [/url] [url=www.gunowners.org][blue]Life Member[/blue][/url] [url=www.saf.org][red]SAF[/red][/url] [url=www.saf.org][blue]Supporter[/blue][/url] [url=sas-aim.org][red]SAS[/red][/url] [url=sas-aim.org][blue]Supporter[/blue][/b][/url] |
| As was pointed out, "commie ammo for commie guns" Well, there's some truth to that...I use Wolf ammo in my Makarov, and used it in a SKS I used to have... No problems..I also had Wolf 9mm ammo blow up a new CZ85 combat in my HAND!!! you haven't lived until you've had that happen!! The CZ had just over 250 rounds ran through it when this happened,Case ruptured by the rim all the gas was diverted down and blew floorplate of the mag out, blew the right saftey lever partly off destroyed the extractor...and partly blew the grips off,I was'nt hurt (thank God) I got in touch with Wolf's American distributor, They went all out and offered to replace the pistol right now, they wanted the blown up one in return, as well as me signing some release papers...OK fine, like I said I was'nt hurt,I wanted my pistol replaced which they did...quickly....needless to say, I won't use it in any thing but a russian designed firearm, that was designed to use it...No thanks...I'll pass on the Wolf... |
| My guns eat the stuff up. It's dirty and it smells. Those are the only cons I can give you about the stuff from personal experiance. As far as accurecy, it holds 1-2 moa@100yards out of MY AR. I've see it do better out of other guns and worse out of other guns. I put 300 rounds downrange after I got my gun back from the shop a few months back. I had the bolt and carrier out of it for the 2+weeks it was gone. I did not put any lube on it when i put the gun back together because I wasn't going to have the chance to shoot it for a few more days. When I went to the range I forgot to give it a shot or 3 of CLP, fired 300 rounds of wolf, not one single problem, none. I also will let the gun go a range session or two before cleaning it and I still don't have problems from the ammo. Thou I do have to say there has got to be some luck involved in that. |
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Quoted: As was pointed out, "commie ammo for commie guns" Well, there's some truth to that...I use Wolf ammo in my Makarov, and used it in a SKS I used to have... No problems..I also had Wolf 9mm ammo blow up a new CZ85 combat in my HAND!!! you haven't lived until you've had that happen!! The CZ had just over 250 rounds ran through it when this happened,Case ruptured by the rim all the gas was diverted down and blew floorplate of the mag out, blew the right saftey lever partly off destroyed the extractor...and partly blew the grips off,I was'nt hurt (thank God) I got in touch with Wolf's American distributor, They went all out and offered to replace the pistol right now, they wanted the blown up one in return, as well as me signing some release papers...OK fine, like I said I was'nt hurt,I wanted my pistol replaced which they did...quickly....needless to say, I won't use it in any thing but a russian designed firearm, that was designed to use it...No thanks...I'll pass on the Wolf... Yep! .....and I drink Mexican beer in Mexican resturants too! |
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Quoted: iv'e been sitting on 2000 rds for 2 years now. i am afraid to use it. but i am told that anything with a 5.56 nato chamber should eat it right up. while a .223 chamber might have problems. If yer scared to use it I'll take it off yer hands what cha want for it? |
| We need a WOLF Discussion area just like General Discussion..that way there wouldn't be a thread about it every 3 days like there has been for the past two YEARS...snicker,snicker![nuts] edited to add I use it in my Bushy and have NEVER had any kind of problem WHATSOEVER... I can't say that with Winchester,swiss,PMP and several other brands.....Yes it is dirty...clean the damn thing and get over it! |
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come to bulletfest and watch cases of wolf disappear thru subguns and machineguns worth tens of thousands of dollars. i run it in all my toys. fron my $300 kalashnikov's to my anschutz single-shot match rifle to the fast guns...they all eat wolf and barnaul. all my ar's shoot wolf. |
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I've put about 5k rounds of wolf through both my bushy and my J&T upper, both 5.56 chambers. I have never had an ammo related malfunction with either rifle. It is now the only 62gr ammo I buy. I pay roughly $2 a box when buying by the case. In seriousness for just plinking I see no use in spending more. The accuracy is better than South African and its new ammo, not 20 year old milsurp. Now, if you have a .223 chamber, then your rifle might not be up to handling the wolf. I tried it in a .223 chamber and did have some problems with tough extraction. The problem is not the laquer as some inexperienced shooters might tell you. It is the fact that the mild steel used in the cases is not as elastic as brass. It therefore does not snap back to shape as readily as brass leaving it slightly larger after firing. This is a problem in .223 chambers but the miniscule difference in a 5.56 chamber is enough that this is not a problem. Buy Wolf and enjoy. I reccomend it to my friends. |