russian .223/556 ammo

Does anyone have experience with this ammo. Centerfire Systems has this for $179.50/1000. Seems like a great deal,but only if it's good stuff. I would only be using for plinking, but don't want to destroy my rifle.
scott

I've never had a problem, I keep my gun clean tho, me or my family have probably been through 4000 rounds of it.

sounds good. does anyone know of a better deal? OK now I'm being greedy.
scott

I works fine for me, but you will definitely have to clean your rifle after getting home from the range. It shoots fine but get junk all in the chamber and upper reciever area. I've shot several hundred rounds through my AR 20" and 16" without an issue. Monarch from Academy has caused an issue. One of the cases got stuck in the chamber after the gun got hot from shooting 100 or so rounds.

Thanks. Not a problem cuz I always clean after shooting.
scott

Some have good luck with it, but I'm like Doug, I'd never put any steel cased ammo through any of my rifles, especially my 556.

I've run about 1000 rounds of Tula and Silver Bear through one of my AR's with no problems. I clean them after after every outing though and there is a good bit of crud in there. The Silver Bear seems to be cleaner than the Tula. It seems like 90 rounds
of the Tula cruds up like 300 rounds of Federal or PMC plinker ammo, but maybe it just seems that way to me.

I've also heard horror stories about what steel case ammo can do, but I think the maintenance of the weapon and quality of the parts has a lot to do with it.

miker84 wrote:I've also heard horror stories about what steel case ammo can do, but I think the maintenance of the weapon and quality of the parts has a lot to do with it.

I will second that --- many thousands shot here; without a problem ... occasional failure to fire but that is a ammo problem ...

captain-03 wrote:

miker84 wrote:I've also heard horror stories about what steel case ammo can do, but I think the maintenance of the weapon and quality of the parts has a lot to do with it.

I will second that --- many thousands shot here; without a problem ... occasional failure to fire but that is a ammo problem ...

I will third this. Many people talk about how awful this stuff is, but they only heard it on the internet and pass it along as fact. I think it has much more to do with how you maintain your weapon than what you shoot through it. I have a stock rock river barrel that many people on this board have seen me abuse the crap out of on full auto and it still looks brand new. The throat is still in great shape as well. That particular gun has not had more than a box of "good" ammo run through it out of the 2 or 3 thousand rounds it has eaten.

Hear is how I look at it. Even if it destroys the barrel in 4000 rounds instead of 5000 rounds and I replace and ejector or two, I bet I still come out better economically shooting the cheap ammo. Just to preface this I am talking about plinking spraying ammo not shooting targets.