Possible Wolf supply chain interruption?

[Halo]

AFAIK, steel core pistol ammunition manufactured after a certain date is illegal for ownership by us peasants, so what you found with the 9x17 was probably a steel jacket. There's really nothing wrong with a steel jacket, but some ranges do ban it either because it sparks on impact, or they believe it damages the backstop. I'm not sure if the latter is true or not, since the type of steel used in jackets is a very mild steel not much harder than brass.

Out of curiosity, what did you fire the 9mm in that was having trouble setting off primers? It seems a few people have run into that problem.

 

[igor]

Yes, the Russians do use steel case ammo. A no-brainer if you think about it.

And they're really laying it on too. They did the whole playbook all over again and nobody is batting a serious eyelash about it. I'm beyond furious in the sad knowledge that both my home countries are among the next ones on Kremlin's list to put under the boot.

The Russian Kommersant propaganda service reports that there were blacks among the dead in Tskhinvali BTW. It'd seem that the first zinc caskets would be forthcoming to the U.S. of A. shortly as well.

http://www.kommersant.com/p-13072/r_500/South_Ossetia/

 

[Sam Adams]

If you want a real eye opener, use your TV wake, as your alarm clock. Wake up the the talking head proclaiming "Russian troops invade Georgia" with night time war scenes in the background. Talk about not needing your morning coffee.

Reminds me of the cartoon I saw during the Falklands War of the early '80's. You saw a few Brit soldiers with full camo, guns, etc., and one on the radio saying, "Roger, Invincible, we have captured South Georgia. Natives seem bewildered, over." The natives in question were a bunch of hillbillies and an old hound dog in front of Floyd's General Store. I still have the cartoon somewhere in a box with a bunch of others from that era - it was a real hoot.

Not such a hoot, though, for the natives of Georgia, formerly of the USSR. At this point, I don't give a rat's hindquarters if Wolf or any other Russkie arms merchant had a 75% off sale, I'm not going to buy their products and enrich their economy. F'em. Anyhow, there's plenty of reloadable, higher-quality ammo made by US companies and companies HQ'd in allied (or at least somewhat friendly) countries.

The Bear is back - don't feed him!!!

 

[Aren't we all]

almost all of the .45 rounds the US used in WW2 were steel, I don't know about rifle ammo though.
marsh