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Blackhat
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Posted: 25 February 2008 01:06 PM |
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What kind of accuracy can be achieved with the cheap steel case Wolf Ammo?
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sniper-66
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Posted: 26 February 2008 01:42 AM |
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| I have only had marginal accuracy from it in either of my three ARs. It gets about the same accuracy of my reloads when I don't sort the brass and used mixed types of brass.
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ghrit
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Posted: 26 February 2008 03:58 AM |
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I can hold 2 MOA prone with a sling and irons with Wolf 55 grain in my Fulton short barrel. I think I can do better with new glasses next week. The Oly doesn't do as well.
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72coupe
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Posted: 26 February 2008 06:30 PM |
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I have never bought any myself but I have loaned my rifle to people that used Wolf to shoot in matches. Reliability in my rifles is poor.
I have a Model 70 Heavy Varmint. Again reliability is poor and accuracy is not so good.
I believe that the reliability problem is related to the rather thick rim on the cases causing ejection problems.
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BigBill
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Posted: 28 February 2008 03:36 AM |
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Overall view on imported ammo;
I might not be much help but i only shoot wolf ammo most of the time. I have found it accurate in my saiga in 223 but i haven't benchrested it yet @ 100yds. In my norinco 1911a1 i'm getting cloverleafs on every trip to the range no matter who shoots it with wolf ammo. I have found wolf ammo to be decent stuff. Never a jam or stove pipe and they all go bang.
I shoot sellier & bellot in my swede mausers using the 139gr fmj ammo i'm getting tighter groups than 1 1/2" @ 100yds. The sellier & bellot in 7mm mauser ammo is the same as the swede ammo is too. The winchester metric ammo is made by sellier & bellot its just in a winchester box.
The new ammo on the block is the Priv-Partizan ammo from the former yugoslavia. This is another top quality ammo and very accurate too. The yugo brass is the best brass i have ever reloaded. Some guys with there swede mausers have reloaded the yugo brass more than 15 times and its still holding up. Priv-partizan makes ammo for FNM and wolf gold too. You can tell by the "PV" on the case rim or it will say it on the box. I have found the priv-partizan ammo to be very accurate in my swede mauser and in my french 49/56 too.
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Blackhat
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Posted: 28 February 2008 01:10 PM |
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| I appreciate your post Bill, but what I was really wondering about was the steel cased ammo. I shot some in a buddy's AR this past weekend and was quite amazed at how accurate it shot. Not as good as brass cases, for the most part, but not that much worse either. I was shooting clusters of appox. 3" groups with open sites at 100 yards. I figured the accuracy would be terrible, but it wasn't. My Ruger mini-14 can't shoot that good with brass cases and a 3x scope on it to boot!
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