My Stag Model 1 never had a problem with the Wolf steel cased ammo.
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Does your AR eat steel?
- Thread starter Laxguy59
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I've run about 3000-4000 rounds of Bear/Tula/Wolf between my ARs/Sig 556/SCAR with one failure to extract. That was in the Sig 556 and all it took was a forceful pull of the charging handle to clear the malfunction.
googled this from yahoo.
"Unfortunately, steel case ammo being actually harmful for your AR is a quite popular myth. Steel is less malleable than brass. When you fire a brass cartridge, the brass expands to the chamber walls and helps block any expanding cases from dirtying up your chamber. When firing steel cartridges, the steel doesn't expand as well as brass, so you probably will end up getting a little carbon residue in the chamber. This tiny amount of carbon in the chamber is enough to make extraction of brass cased ammo more difficult. When the brass expands to the dirty chamber after firing steel ammo, it conforms to the carbon residue somewhat, increasing friction. This small amount of friction is sometimes enough to make a normally okay AR malfunction when attempting to eject a fired cartridge.
So to give you a short answer, use both! Just make sure to really clean out the chamber after firing steel ammo."
"Unfortunately, steel case ammo being actually harmful for your AR is a quite popular myth. Steel is less malleable than brass. When you fire a brass cartridge, the brass expands to the chamber walls and helps block any expanding cases from dirtying up your chamber. When firing steel cartridges, the steel doesn't expand as well as brass, so you probably will end up getting a little carbon residue in the chamber. This tiny amount of carbon in the chamber is enough to make extraction of brass cased ammo more difficult. When the brass expands to the dirty chamber after firing steel ammo, it conforms to the carbon residue somewhat, increasing friction. This small amount of friction is sometimes enough to make a normally okay AR malfunction when attempting to eject a fired cartridge.
So to give you a short answer, use both! Just make sure to really clean out the chamber after firing steel ammo."
at what round count does your ar stop feeding steal should be the ? , every one i have had will shoot about 200 then you got to clean it ,
I have cleaned my AR once in 2k rounds
Yep. Every ar or 5.56 rifle I've ever owned ate it like candy.
i've ran wolf and every other laquer coated russian ammo named after an animal through my rock river and have never had a failure.
I have had AR's that will and AR's that won't. I believe I had an LMT that would not eat Wolf to save my life. Of course, I utilize AK-47's now and they will eat anything. Yes, literally.
The ones I've owned that would not reliably feed Wolf.
LMT upper on C3 lower (would break rims off)
Bushmaster XM15 (stock)
Sabre Defence (stock)
But I have had 20 or so AR's so the ratios arent that bad I guess.............for AR15's.
Good thing I don't have to worry about it anymore.
LMT upper on C3 lower (would break rims off)
Bushmaster XM15 (stock)
Sabre Defence (stock)
But I have had 20 or so AR's so the ratios arent that bad I guess.............for AR15's.
Good thing I don't have to worry about it anymore.
