Need Advice on ammo

I've shot quite a bit of Tulammo in a variety of calibers and have never had a problem with it. Its dirty and not the most accurate, but it works.
 
Define "decent". Will it function? It should. But I find steel cased ammo to be dirty as the cases don't expand as well as the brass. It's been an issue in the past where I used a bunch of steel cased 45 ACP just to save money. What happened was a ton of carbon got blown back into the firing pin channel and the pistol started getting light strikes. Some gun scrubber in the firing pin channel cleaned it all up though. It'll just require a bit more TLC. I also don't find it to be the best shooting in terms of accuracy, but it's hard to beat the cost and frankly I'm no bullseye pistol shooter.


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Yes. This is the same conclusion that I came to but I wanted to be sure seeing as I am a real Novice about Semis. I have been buying Federal, Winchester and Speer & Lawman.(same company)

the Speer 124 grain HP and Federal HST 124 grain HP I use for SD. the Federal is $20.95 box of 50 and the Speer is $23.95 box of 50.

Can't get over how much less costly is 9mm ammo as opposed to 38 sp P+ and
357 mag ammo
 
I won't use it in my guns, but I have friends who shoot it and there does not seem to be any problems. Does not seal as well, so loose chambered pistols, like Glocks, it will be dirtier than if shot in a tighter chamber, and the powder is pretty dirty to boot.
 
Most likely steel casings and copper washed steel jackets. I put these through my AK but they were built for it. Ask yourself if you feel comfortable putting them down the barrel of your handgun. I for one do not.
 
"Tula uses powder made from urine. You'll smell it while firing."

Huh? "Black" powder can be made with human and animal waste as a source of nitrate (in the U.S. Civil War, one source of supply for the CS was the dozens of "backhouses" throughout the still mostly rural South) but urine would not be used in smokeless powder and black powder does not have the power or burning characteristics needed for automatic weapons.

The steel used in bullet jackets is a very mild (soft) steel. While obviously harder than copper or gilding metal, mild steel has been used for well over a century as a bullet jacket material, substituting for much more expensive copper. It takes a lot of shooting to wear out a hard steel barrel firing those bullets.

Jim
 
I have fired thousands of round of Tulammo in my handguns. My Makarov PM loves it, but loves all 9x18mm ammo.

I think that's a good price. It's good basic practice stuff. No it's not top of the line, but it's not priced like it either.

Buy it.
 
I've used TulAmmo .45ACP steelcase ammo in my Gen4 Glock 21 with no problems, and the accuracy wasn't bad either. But I didn't like the 9mm the last time I tried it in my Gen3 Glock 17, and another problem is that a lot of the public ranges won't allow you to shoot steel cased ammo anyway. So before I spent $152 on a case lot of the stuff I'd first buy a couple boxes from Wally's to make sure you can use it where you are shooting, and make sure it cycles OK in the pistol you want to shoot it with, just "MHO".
 
For less than that $152 you can buy a Lee single stage press reloading kit which gets you on your way to reloading for a lot less money. Reloading ammo isn't as complicated as it looks.
 
For simple practice, what's wrong with using the lowest-priced ammo, which is also Non-corrosive?

The only ammo I practice with--in the Sig 232, and four Makarovs (.380 and 9x18)--is Tula and Wolf.

What is the point in paying more for ammo just to make holes in a piece of paper?
 
For me the steel case ammo is AK fodder and that is it.
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Agreed, and my AK loves Tulammo.

Never ran it in my Glocks, but I bet it would run fine just fine.

For less than that $152 you can buy a Lee single stage press reloading kit which gets you on your way to reloading for a lot less money. Reloading ammo isn't as complicated as it looks.
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Agreed, it is easy if you have the ability to perform simple calculations and have good attention to detail. I personally enjoy reloading almost as much as shooting, so I could be biased :D
 
tula has a pretty nasty reputation. it's probably the worst ammo available. it's dirty, innacurate, inconsistent, and has pretty hard primers to boot so a lot of people end up with light strikes in addition to the occasional hangfire. however so long as you exorcise some common sense and use it just for practice and clean your gun a little more often than usual you should be fine. I use it in my 7.62x39s, that's about the extent to which I'll trust it anymore. as one guy mentioned, wolf is better, made by the same people but to better standards.
 
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