Poor feeding ammo

[Blackwater Butch]

Has anyone had issues with wolf 45acp ammo feeding well in their semi autos? Today at the range I had feeding issues with my Charles Daly 1911 45acp, and my Springfield xds compact
45acp. I don't believe both guns could have problems at same time. Unfortunately the
Wolf ammo was the only
one I had available. Thanks.

 

[Patocazador]

I steer away from steel cases and Russian ammo.

 

[Obturation]

Got a picture of the offending ammunition?

 

[Blackwater Butch]

What kind of picture do you need?

 

[Obturation]

What kind of picture do you need?

Sometimes it's easier to just see exactly which ammo it is. Steel cased or brass. Hollow point, bullet profile , ECT.
Or some info on what type caused the problem if that's easier.
There are countless ammo configurations, just trying to figure out what you were using.

 

[Blackwater Butch]

View attachment 912198 Here is a photo from same box I had trouble with.View attachment 912198

Sometimes it's easier to just see exactly which ammo it is. Steel cased or brass. Hollow point, bullet profile , ECT.
Or some info on what type caused the problem if that's easier.
There are countless ammo configurations, just trying to figure out what you were using.

It is lacquered steel cased, round nose, plated. Standard wolf 45acp.

 

[Obturation]

View attachment 912198 Here is a photo from same box I had trouble with.View attachment 912198 View attachment 912199

It is lacquered steel cased, round nose, plated. Standard wolf 45acp.

Ok. Yeah, like @Patocazador said- steel cased ammo . I've had trouble with it too. Maybe remove the lacquer and shoot it before it rusts. I've heard of folks having luck doing that. Check if the rounds will plunk into the barrel , I assume they will. If so compare the length - if you have some- to ammo you know feeds. If both of those things are good, I'd wipe them down with something right before you hit the range and see if that helps .
Hope you didn't buy a big pile of it and you can get what you've got to shoot.

 

[Dibbs]

Yeah, steel cases tend to expand, but, unlike brass, they don't contract, after the shot. Many
combloc firearms are built to looser tolerances, to handle steel ammo. When you use the steel cased ammo,
if it doesn't cycle well in your firearm, avoid using it. Some chambers handle it better than others.

 

[jhb]

curious. trouble from the get go while guns were cold or after shooting and they were hot? thank you Sir.

 

[792mauser]

Steel 45 tulammo won't feed in my Colt officer lightweight to save its life,
and it'll eject funny.

Now in my Rock Islands and Norincos. It's like a hot knife through melted butter.

They plunk fine into the 2 case gauges I have for 45acp. So IDK why the Colt won't feed it. Doesn't bother me to much anyways. I'd rather carry the steel Rock Island 3.5" officer anyways, due to recoil.

 

[walterelm]

I had once 10.000 rounds of Wolf ammo in 9mm, lacquered steel case. Didnt feed reliable. The spring in the mag couldnt push the rounds upwards, or only a few, or ...

Somebody told me to take a plastik bag, dump 100 rounds in it and spray a little bit of gun oil (WD40) on top of it, shake it and shoot it within the nxt few hours.

Worked awesome:
1. No more feeding problems
2. No need to clean the gun

Backdraws:
3. Dont wear white or new clothes
4. Everybody will tell you oil in a chamber is a bad idea ...

 

[Waveski]

"Somebody told me to take a plastik bag, dump 100 rounds in it and spray a little bit of gun oil (WD40) on top of it, shake it and shoot it within the nxt few hours."

Waayyy too much trouble and mess. Besides , I don't want steel to be banging around on extractors and ejectors designed with brass in mind.
Just say "NO" to cheap steel.