No need to be inflammatory. As I said, I am a student on a $200/month budget. I have to feed myself, a car, laundry machines, and four different calibers of weapons. Therefore, I am interested in value. A few dollars here and there are important to me. That is why I am asking questions - so I can do a good cost/benefit analysis in my own mind. If that is being hardheaded, I apologize.
So far, only ONE person (and I thank RWK for it) has definitively told me that the steel casing and laquer can damage my pistol - and that is after I asked a second time. All other 'reasons' not to buy wolf is because it jammed pistols that I don't own in calibers that I don't shoot (and some people even said that if it worked in my gun, I should shoot it - so that's three or four different opinions so far, most of them 180 degrees from each other).
And I already said that a few failures to feed or fire or eject don't really concern me as I am mainly plinking. Combine that with my newness to pistol shooting, and I think it is just natural for me to ask these questions.
I still don't quite understand why steel cases would break parts more than aluminum or brass.
The Blazer is a interesting choice and I will look at it. Before, the only alternative anyone suggested was S&B, and as I said, I had heard of squib rounds with S&B that have blown up a few guns in the last few months (in 9x19 too!) that made me nervous - more nervous than potential parts breakage to my pistol.
So please help educate me, a newcomer to autopistols, in a confusing situation.
To Cowgunner: Is that you from the HI forums?