Tulammo.. Anyone like it or dislike it

I have a buddy, and he's a great guy, but a bit... cheap. He always shoots either surplus or Tula. He spent several hours trying to sight in his rifle (a very well cared for Mosin-Nagant) with it last week Saturday.
He went through 40 rounds, rounds were all over the place, twice he thought he had it sighted in, only to have the next round in the ten ring...! After two boxes of steel cased tula crap, he switched to surplus, and shot a 2" group right on the bull at 50 Yards.
After his experience, I would not buy Tula.
 
My .45 1911 seems to like it just fine. My C93 eats it up like candy. I don't really see a problem with it. It was just as accurate as the Remington UMC in my pistol and in the C93 it had a couple inch group at 50 (rifle wasn't completely sighted in yet either FWIW). It was dirty, I could tell that right away, and it smelled like crap but it worked. For 5 bucks a box for .223 I'd shoot it again for a fun day at the range.
 
it's been discussed in many threads here before
tulamo is the spin off of Wolf as the Russian satellite states fell apart, they left ammunition plants behind and they are still making the stuff!

I have seen that its the same 3 or 4 guns that have "issues" with any off flavor ammo. Any quality pistol that has been cleaned on a regular basis and is in good working order usually has no issues with it.

It has DIRTY powder, so hope you like cleaning your gun. Often if leads to failure to fire with powder build up after multiple rounds.

I have shot it in my sig 2022 in 9mm along with 100's of russian spam can ammo as well. All of it shot with no issues, but again its a quality gun and cleaned religiously after shooting.

So, having said the obvious, there is nothing wrong with the tulamo rounds, but there are also a lot of things that are not "rite". Its cheap ammo, and it does what cheap ammo should, it goes bang.

I can recommend some quality re-loaders that can sell you bulk quantity of 9mm or other calibers in brass cases with re loadable options for you later.
 
I've had FTfire issues with it with my XDm 9 Compact 3.8. It'd fire when I ran it thru a 2nd time. I had eject issues with it in XD45c's or Kimber .45s. It IS inexpensive to shoot, though.
 
I'm all about shooting steel ammo since my reloader is currently in storage due to a move. That said, Tulammo is INSANELY dirty. I fired a bunch of it through my G21 but it was so dirty people were looking to see what the black cloud of smoke was coming from. I can't imagine shooting it in an indoor range. I'd never buy it again.... It went bang but there are other cheap options out there.
 
I bought my first two (Norinco) AKs in the mid 80s and all the ammo ($2.25/box) was green or brown or copper washed steel. I didn't know there was any other kind. It was just the cheap ammo you put in AKs. Also the bullets were steel and still seem to be.
 
Not the most acurate ammo out there but its not bad for the price. The loads are pretty inconsistent too. But for targets theyre fine for me. Ive shot thousands of them - only one dud. I dont use them anymore as I now reload most everything I shoot. Every once in a while I will still use the 762x54
 
I have shot a 50 rd box of Tula 9mm out of my Hi Point carbine without any issues, but did notice at 50 yds it doesn't hold as much as of a group, and dirties up the gun more than simularly priced Blazer ammo.
 
I don't shoot any of the steel cased ammo in my guns and I don't
care for the finish some ammo has applied to the cases. Just my
$.02.
 
.223 by the thousands, don't fill the mags to high, 20/25 max or it won't strip the round and go in to battery without the fw assist on my AR15. dirty, accurate and reliable. 1% of them don't go off on first primer strike.
 
I dont shoot it. I reload so I like brass, but even if I didnt reload I doubt I would shoot much tula or wolf or any steel cased ammo for that matter.
 
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