Tula 223

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Thoughts on this particular Make/Model? Yes, I know it's steel cased. Is this round lower pressure than 5.56 as the 223 designation implies? What has been your experience?

I personally never had great experience with steel cased but have only shot 9mm out of my guns. They have a tendency to bind in my magazines unless I roll the rounds in my hands with a few drops of oil. Not sure if it's worth the trouble to save a few pennies per round.
 
I have a rifle set up for Tula 75gr. I find it reliable so long as I don't shoot hundreds of rounds of it then try to shoot brass cased ammunition before cleaning it.

I think it is a bit slow, though it still cycles a rifle with my heaviest buffer, six steel weights and one tungsten. It's good for 2moa with my 2.5x scope.
 
I have shot some and it is ok. I shoot Wolf .223 when I go to the desert and never had a problem with it. I know they say it will wear out your gun faster, but as long as they make replacement parts I don't believe it is that big of a deal.
 
Tula .223 is on the low end of powder charges for sure. It does go bang every time I pull the trigger, but it is by far the most inaccurate ammo I have ever used in my life. I tried it in an AK101 (AK47 chambered in .223) if that helps. This AK will shoot 2 inch 100 yard groups with my reloads, 3 inch with LC M855, 4 inch with Wolf, and I'm lucky to hit paper with Tula. Personally, I'll never buy it again.
 
I have a rifle set up for Tula 75gr. ... It's good for 2moa with my 2.5x scope.
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That's good to know. I've been shooting Tula 55gr through my Saiga AK, but I just bought a case of the 75gr in hopes that it would be more consistent accuracy wise.
 
I tried it in an AK101 (AK47 chambered in .223) if that helps. This AK will shoot 2 inch 100 yard groups with my reloads, 3 inch with LC M855, 4 inch with Wolf, and I'm lucky to hit paper with Tula. Personally, I'll never buy it again.
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Were you shooting Tula 55gr or 62gr? What's the barrel twist on that rifle?

My AK has a 1/9 twist and I can consistently ring a 6" gong at 100y with Tula 55gr. I think my average group size is between 4-5MOA, where it will hold 2-3MOA just fine with Fed XM193 (yet doesn't like Winchester Q3131a for some reason)
 
There is some good 223 &5.56 out there go to AmmoSeek there you will need to sign in to see all they have Federal American Eagle 62gr is 6.99 per 20 and American Eagle is 8.76 for 20 rounds At Able,s they have 55gr for 5.69 for 20rounds this brass cases. on there at AmmoSeek you will see who has it the cheeps good luck
 
I have 3484 rds. 55g through a DPMS Oracle pencil barrel AR.

Stoppages: -0-
It shoots pretty clean.
The rifle has appx. 1.5 moa with Federal Gold match, 1.6 with Geco, and maybe twice that moa with Tula.

Tula is all I buy now, but most of my AR shooting is off-hand practice.
 
I tried the 62 gr. Rifle has a 1/9 twist.
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Thanks Mike. I was thinking maybe you had 1/7 and was shooting 55gr. You shouldn't have had any stabilization issues there though.
 
Iv probably shot around 3k rounds of it through various ARs and although its not the most accurate ammo out there, it always feeds and fires, and is actually relatively clean.
 
I just tried some 75gr Tula (silver bullets) this weekend. I had two 16" carbines (one with a 1/9 twist RRA barrel and the other a 1/7 twist Ballistics Advantage barrel). Both were zeroed with Magtech CBC 77gr (A mk262 clone). I was using red dots with a 6x magnifier.

Where the 77gr was giving me 1-1.5" groups at 100y, the Tula was printing 2-3" groups (definitely more accurate than Tula 55gr I think). The Tula was also putting the groups about 2" higher. Accuracy was about the same in both rifles (that 1/9 RRA shoots 77gr just as well as the 1/7 does at 100y)

I also shot it at AR500 plate, at both 50y and 100y. No damage to the plates at all.

No malfunctions at all. No discernible difference in recoil feel or report in any round. The ejection pattern seemed consistent as well. I think I shot somewhere between 100-200 rounds (I had a quart baggie nearly full with loose rounds).

I'll definitely be buying more of this.
 
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