TulAmmo WTF

[MCrupe]

I went to the range yesterday with a buddy of mine to have some fun. I took my favorite Bersa Thunder Pro 9mm HC pistol with me along with my PSA AR-15. I had 200 rounds of 9mm TulAmmo and 140 rounds of .223 TulAmmo. The .223 cycled great no problems at all. The 9mm was great as well save 1 round. As I was shooting I had a ftf so I ejected the round and seen that the primer had been struck like all the others but didn't fire, so I loaded it in and tried it again and nothing! Trigger pulls number 3 and 4 had the same result. I took the round out and looked at the primer in amazement that it never fired. Finally on the fifth trigger pull the round fired. Now I am not a big fan of steel cased ammo but it is a cheap range round at $10.37 for 50 rounds at the local wal-mart. My question is, Has any one else had this problem with TulAmmo? or any other brand for that matter?

 

[STEEL CORE]

No, not Tula, but over the years, I have had it happen with other ammo, most went BANG the second time........oh for that cheap 9mm Egyptian FMJ back in the day!?!

 

[Double T]

You are lucky. Mine usually have sideways or non-flush primers on one side, which could lead to problems if trying to fire them.

 

[bushlight]

Wsh walmart by me had ammo

 

[TD12]

Some guns don't like certain ammo, in my opinion if you have a gun that doesn't like ANY ammo you feed it, get rid of it.

I won't keep a gun around that doesn't like certain types of ammo, because if you ever have a SHTF scenario happens I want my gun to fire ANY and EVERY kind of ammo.

Now, when a bad primer doesn't ignite the powder to fire that ammo... I feel like that could be poor manufacturing. Like you said, it only happened to one round. I would chalk that up to poor manufacturing, not the gun not liking it.

 

[Broom_jm]

That's not a "TulAmmo" problem...that's just a single bad primer. I've had that happen with various factory ammo and even with handloaded ammo. Every once in a while you run into a bad primer. Not really noteworthy, IMO.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Tula primers are pretty hard. Obviously the OP's gun didn't have any problems with most of them, so it may indeed have just been a defective primer. I used to have a little pocket .380 and it didn't like Tulammo at all. I would have to pull the trigger 100+ times to get through a box of 50 rounds. That was the first and last box I tried to use with that gun.

 

[Fishersjohn48]

That's not a "TulAmmo" problem...that's just a single bad primer. I've had that happen with various factory ammo and even with handloaded ammo. Every once in a while you run into a bad primer. Not really noteworthy, IMO.

This exactly.

 

[ckcollins2003]

That's not a "TulAmmo" problem...that's just a single bad primer. I've had that happen with various factory ammo and even with handloaded ammo. Every once in a while you run into a bad primer. Not really noteworthy, IMO.

Exactly... I actually just had a handloaded .308 fail to ignite because of a bad primer this past weekend. These are Winchester primers I'm using. So if a single Tulammo primer didn't ignite, I'd say you're doing pretty good.

 

[Scottie1317]

Out of the 500 rds of Tula ammo I ran in my AR I
Had one round do that. It fired on the 3rd try

 

[possum_128]

One bad round out of 200 isn't too bad, why complain? Now if you had 3,5,10 or whatever, but one round what the heck? As you said, " but it is a cheap range round at $10.37 for 50 rounds at the local wal-mart."

 

[Jerchap2]

I have heard that the solvents the Russians use for manufacturing the Tula rounds are not good for the gun, and that if you use that ammo you need to clean the weapon more often. Can anyone confirm or debunk that?

 

[38special]

I have heard that the solvents the Russians use for manufacturing the Tula rounds are not good for the gun, and that if you use that ammo you need to clean the weapon more often. Can anyone confirm or debunk that?

It's generally understood that Tula is dirtier ammo, but still plenty safe to shoot and usually runs fine.

 

[Chase515]

I have shot 1500 Rd's tula combined out of hand guns and rifles with zero failures. I have a x pd glock with who knows how many thousand rounds through it and its had a steady diet of tula and reloads since I've owned it. The only bad steel case ammo I've seen recently is from a coworker who bought a 1000 wolf wpa brown box. 80 of the rounds were buldged at the base about the bottom 3rd, most of the rounds wouldnt come out of the mag and the one that made it in the chamber didnt come out with out the help of the cleaning rod.

 

[mbaza3]

Worst ammo I ever used. I have put 1500 rounds through my XDM 9 without one issue and the Tula 9mm caused all kinds of problems. I left the remaining box on the range for someone.

 

[Duron219]

I've shot about 350 rounds of Tula through my M1 Carbine and never had a problem. The ammo gets my rifle really dirty and I spend more time cleaning it.

 

[Magneto]

A couple of years ago I was trying out my new M&P. I was shooting some Tula and one box had 4 ftf. I moved to my hammer fired pistol. Of the 4 two fired on the second try. The other two never fired. Still have them.

 

[Boost Lee]

TulAmmo is fine. Just made through production in cheaper ways than other manufacturers.

You get defective ones every once in a while (especially primers). It happens.

 

[chezuki]

I've experienced 3 dead primers in my life. One .40 and two .45. All three were Tula. Now I reload and shoot cheaper than Tula and more consistent than any factory ammo (back when it could be found).

 

[worddoer]

There is A LOT of false information out about com bloc ammo. And with all the new shooters joining the sport, these rumors are spreading more than ever.

Here are some good factual references...

ComBloc Ammo FAQ

And here is some good reference material from a fell INGO'er

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