Tula Ammo aka Tulammo

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After reading many for and against about Tulammo, I picked up some yesterday. (.223, 9mm, .40)

Cycled fine through my AR-15, H&K USP Compact 40 and Ruger LC9.

In the AR, shooting a mix of Tula and PMC or American Eage, could not feel a difference in recoil or sound. Will find out tonight when I clean it if it's "dirty" or not.
 
I love that stuff. Cheap and high quality. Have several thousand rounds of it for my SKS of which I've shot a few hundred and never a misfire. Seems to shoot fairly clean in my experience, and it's absolutely the cheapest stuff you can get.
 
Originally Posted By: greenaccord02
I love that stuff. Cheap and high quality. Have several thousand rounds of it for my SKS of which I've shot a few hundred and never a misfire. Seems to shoot fairly clean in my experience, and it's absolutely the cheapest stuff you can get.


If this ends up being good stuff I'll buy more. At one time I had $700 worth of ammo in my online shopping cart at lucky shooter.. a mix of US and Russian .223 and 5.56 (HP and FMJ). At the last minute decided to not spend that much until I tried it.
 
Keep an eye on the extractor. Supposedly steel case ammo is hard on the extractors of AR-15s because it sticks in the chamber a little more than brass cased ammo.
 
Im a big fan of Tula!!! I own a 1943 Mosin Nagant and a few thousand rounds from them. Ive used their calibers in .380,9x18,9mm,.45,7.62x39,7.62x54R. They have all performed flawlessly in my firearms and never one jam or misfire. For the price/quality you get from one of Russia's biggest suppliers your doing yourself an injustice for not trying it once. Gotta love stocking up at Walmarts Tula prices! Still too expensive anyway...
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Originally Posted By: tom slick
Keep an eye on the extractor. Supposedly steel case ammo is hard on the extractors of AR-15s because it sticks in the chamber a little more than brass cased ammo.


I'd have thought the polymer coating mitigated that?
 
Originally Posted By: BobFout
Originally Posted By: tom slick
Keep an eye on the extractor. Supposedly steel case ammo is hard on the extractors of AR-15s because it sticks in the chamber a little more than brass cased ammo.


I'd have thought the polymer coating mitigated that?


It may have to a point but brass contracts more after firing than steel. A friend of mine has had a recent steel sticking issues in his .223 but I don't know if his ammo was old stock.

Just watch for signs of it sticking. Notice the guys above that are "big fans" of Tula are shooting it out of Russian guns. Wolf/Tula the only ammo I shoot in my SKS.
 
Originally Posted By: tom slick
Originally Posted By: BobFout
Originally Posted By: tom slick
Keep an eye on the extractor. Supposedly steel case ammo is hard on the extractors of AR-15s because it sticks in the chamber a little more than brass cased ammo.


I'd have thought the polymer coating mitigated that?


It may have to a point but brass contracts more after firing than steel. A friend of mine has had a recent steel sticking issues in his .223 but I don't know if his ammo was old stock.

Just watch for signs of it sticking. Notice the guys above that are "big fans" of Tula are shooting it out of Russian guns. Wolf/Tula the only ammo I shoot in my SKS.


I shot 3x30 mags of it, would I have noticed it by then?
 
I know I had problems with the Tula ammo in my ar-15. It shoots fine with new brass ammo, but i fired a couple clips of the tula before I began having cases sticking in the chamber. I actually had to use a cleaning round to knock them out. The ammo works fine in my mini-14 though.
 
I bought a 100 rounds of both .40 and 9mm and one box of 45acp. Most of my handguns ate it up but two of them did have some feeding issues. Those two guns have never had any problems before with brass, aluminum, or metal. The thing I noticed with the Tulammo was that I couldn't get the magazines filled to capacity with it. The steel cases don't slide together too well. I'm pretty sure this is why I was having problems. The slide was getting stuck in the open position not being able to push the next round into the chamber. It did only happen 4 times between those two guns.

As far as this ammo only being for the range and plinking it's great. You can't beat the price. Although I just notice that my local Walmarts are now carrying 100 round packs of Federal 9mm for $19.97. Now that's an awesome deal.
 
Ive shot THOUSANDS of rounds of steel cased ruskie ammo in my ARs, bolt guns, and pistols. The steel is so soft the wear on the extractor is negligible compared to brass and the lacquer or polymer coating acts as a buffer against that. Early problems in AR guns had to do with the lacquer coating burning off and making the chamber sticky on tight 223 chambers. The 5.56 chambered guns rarely had a problem. Its decent ammo for plinking and practice. It does burn dirty and the kinds with primer and bullet sealer are extra dirty. But it saves cash you can put towards more guns. LOL
 
Sonic,

You and Robenstein are lucky to be able to shoot this stuff. All if not most of the ranges here in Los Angeles won't allow steel ammo at all unless I can find a private range to go to.

Once upon a time the only Russian ammo I shot was Wolf cuz it say it's "non-corrosive".

besides that ammo is so expensive here that my range shooting is limited to 22LR ammo only and ocassional shooting of my AR's or my AK's.

Durango
 
Yeah I remember when I bought a 1k round case of Wolf 7.62 Soviet for 79 bucks plus shipping.

Now I use my Ciener 22lr kit in my old Colt SP1 alot at the range. It is sorta fun with my spinner targets at long range.

Im slowly plowing through my 20k rounds of 8mm mauser surplus with my mauser collection and my one Egyptian FN49 that shoots it.
 
Our country is flooded with ammo from the Russia that's cheap but unfortunatlely corrosive in nature. In our state this stuff is mostly taboo cuz it's made of steel and it causes forest fires so basically even though it's cheap in price/quality you can't shoot it because it's steel! In our stare it's just one big rip off.

Give me a reasonable priced American made ammo that is not steel cored and non-corrosive. I can't even find that Hornady ammo that has the steel casing but with a lead core??? Who's got that stuff???

Durango
 
Originally Posted By: Durango
In our state this stuff is mostly taboo cuz it's made of steel and it causes forest fires...
Durango


That's for the most part only in the LA area. The rest of the state doesn't care.
 
Originally Posted By: Durango
Our country is flooded with ammo from the Russia that's cheap but unfortunatlely corrosive in nature. In our state this stuff is mostly taboo cuz it's made of steel and it causes forest fires so basically even though it's cheap in price/quality you can't shoot it because it's steel! In our stare it's just one big rip off.

Give me a reasonable priced American made ammo that is not steel cored and non-corrosive. I can't even find that Hornady ammo that has the steel casing but with a lead core??? Who's got that stuff???

Durango


Dude, what?
 
How does steel cased ammo cause fires more than brass cased? Also not all of the ruskie ammo has bi metal bullets. Some is FMJ lead ammo. The Wolf website does differentiate between the two on some of their ammo lines.

Most ruskie ammo is non corrosive. Only the surplus stuff is corrosive.
 
Robenstein,

Here in California it doesn't matter.... The range master will magnet test your ammo and if it gets picked up they will confiscate your ammo or ask you to leave the range. All the ranges will do this and since shooting ranges have been closing due to bad city politics there isn't many places to shoot unless you know a rich person with a private land to shoot on. That's why I say to anyone who goes to BIG 5! Tey sell this type of ammo for sale/shoot but here you can't shoot it.

Durango
 
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