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Sterling 9mm Ammo-Worst Ever

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I posted about this stuff awhile ago, but it is so bad it merits its own thread.

I bought a case of it awhile ago simply because it is cheap. I'm thinking worst case scenario. it won't chamber, maybe has hard primers, or burns dirty. This stuff is steel, made in Turkey. I used to shoot Russian steel all the time for practice, up until the Big Guy decreed no more.

This crap does something I have never experienced before. It is regularly so far out of spec on casing diameter/taper that it will regularly feed nearly all the way into the chamber, but then hang up so badly, so tightly that it takes no small effort to dislodge/eject the unfired round.

Stay away from this junk, and be sure to tell everybody you know.
 
#3 · (Edited)
Very helpful.

Sometimes you get what you pay for.

I had a number of hard primers from Freedom, so I'll probably stay away from their ammo, too. Feeds fine, but a 1 - 2% restrike is too much, even for range practice.

Now it's just the "regular names" I buy for ammo.
 
#4 ·
Thanks for the info, sir. I’ll definitely stay away especially if it has chambering issues with steel cases……
 
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A lot of the turkish ammo has been very iffy ..

There was a whole batch of 308 turkish that was blowing up guns due to being over pressure loaded and out of spec

Russia did a decent job with steel case as did some of the other com block countries ..The worst you could get is maybe someone was drunk and put in a hard or corrosive primer but it was good ammo


But I wont buy steel etc case from a country that does not natively use or had the factories set up to make it for the military back in the olden days
 
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I used to shoot quite a bit of Perfecta 9mm. Not sure who made it? It was very good shooting and in my experience better than Winchester white box which I have had problems with bulged cases and is was very dirty compared to the Winchester white box. FWIW I have shot thousands of rounds of .223 russian steel cased Wolf & Tula in my AR's with zero problems.

I typically don't shoot steel cased in my handguns but my AR's and AK's have a steady diet of it with no problems. (I do run them wet w/ 50/50 mix of Marvel Mystery Oil & Mobil 1 synthetic 10w-30w.)
 
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I just stick with Federal American Eagle or Winchester White Box. Knock on wood no issues so far

I posted about this stuff awhile ago, but it is so bad it merits its own thread.

I bought a case of it awhile ago simply because it is cheap. I'm thinking worst case scenario. it won't chamber, maybe has hard primers, or burns dirty. This stuff is steel, made in Turkey. I used to shoot Russian steel all the time for practice, up until the Big Guy decreed no more.

This crap does something I have never experienced before. It is regularly so far out of spec on casing diameter/taper that it will regularly feed nearly all the way into the chamber, but then hang up so badly, so tightly that it takes no small effort to dislodge/eject the unfired round.

Stay away from this junk, and be sure to tell everybody you know.