Anyone shot or have any info about the "silver bear ", zinc coated ammo? just kidna scared to shoot anything but brass, but it is a good bit cheaper
ive fired quite a bit of it thru my ar. while its not all that accurate, its pretty reliable.
also theres no way you are going to get your chamber hot enough to melt the zink off the cases (750 degrees f) without melting your handgaurds first.
I run nothing but steel in my M&Ps for practice/training,
Hell, Hornady makes their MATCH grade 7.62x39 and 5.45x39 based on galv-steel cased ammo. I would much prefer brass in guns like that, especially stainless barrels, but it ain't the end of the world.
Absolutely, but they still see fit to say it's good for 'match grade' which tells me... well.... something. There -is- brass x39 out there. I'm unaware of any 5.45, but there is a-plenty of brass x39. That kinda makes me curious, now.I think that has to do with them having to buy the brass from wolf who only makes this ammo in steel cased varieties.
Absolutely, but they still see fit to say it's good for 'match grade' which tells me... well.... something. There -is- brass x39 out there. I'm unaware of any 5.45, but there is a-plenty of brass x39. That kinda makes me curious, now.
Anyways, I'm curious - why do your 'non-commie' guns not get steel cased? Why would Euro or Amur'kan guns need brass? Does it just make you feel better about your 'murican guns, that you 'treat them better' in your eyes, or what?
That coupled with the fact I try to avoid low quality ammo makes steel ammo kind of irrelevant.
I don't want to spend time picking up, boxing up, transporting, selling, delivering the once-fired. That's why I typically forget about that advantage. I forget that some people do.
Ah something else I forgot to mention.
In my limited experiences shooting cheaper steel case ammo (commercial stuff) I have found it to be VERY dirty and leave a good bit of soot. I imagine this could lead to malfunctions if shot enough, but I just don't like because of the mess.
Also brass is worth something after being shot, it can either be reloaded or sold.
in my experience nothing is as dirty as remington yellow/green box ammo. ive shot black powder that left less residue/carbon/soot than it left.