Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

*I should clarify. the steel ammo is dirty and does not expand in your chamber like brass. So the chamber gets dirtier faster. If you then fire brass, which does expand in the chamber, all the fouling will make the case stick in the chamber. So if you are firing brass and steel cases, either shoot all the brass first, or clean your chamber before switching from steel to brass

There is a difference in manufacturers. 1) Wolf blackbox = Tula, which always seems under powered and inconsistant. 2) Wolf Mil Classic used to = Ulyanovsk, which used the 8M3 bullet that fragged. Ulyanvosk tends to be hotter and more consistant that the Tula/BB offering. Now it's been rumored there's no difference in BB and MC so it's probably all Tula. 3) All Bear ammo and Monarch = Barnual (with zinc and copper washed as an option), which I have found again to be more consistant and hotter than Tula/BB. Their .223 have actually been chronoed at 5.56 velocities.

So in summary:
Wolf = crap/blasting ammo if nothing else is available, IMO, unless you can find Uly/MC
Uly = with 8M3 bullet is a good SHTF round
Barnaul = better than Wolf at at about the same price, is usually available so a good practice round.

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