Originally published at Notes From The Bunker. You can comment here or there.
I only use steel cased ammo in guns designed for them (‘Commie’ guns). I’ll run steel cases out of AK’s, Mosins, Makarovs, etc. since those Commie guns were pretty much designed around them. I try to avoid shooting steel cased ammo out of my non-Commie guns (AR, Glock, P35, 1991, etc) since, usually, those guns are more valuable than the Commie guns and I think it’s asking for trouble to fire steel cased ammo out of it.
I never shoot steel-cased out of my AR’s. First, the notion of steel cases bouncing around in an aluminum receiver gives me visions of horrible gouges and scratches. Additionally, I just dont think there’s enough definitive data to show whether firing stee-cased ammo out of AR’s increases malfs and extractor wear.
