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I was shooting my scout rifle with some cheap monarch steel cased ammo that I bought from Academy. MY question is it hard on the rifle ? If it is hard on the rifle then why does hornady sell steel cased ammo if its so bad ?
Great job explaining this LilMsRuger34 and I couldn't have explained it any better.biggest problem i have found thru research is how the steal case doesnt expand like brass,sealing the chamber.that causes more gas to get in the chamber,making it dirtier.if you dont clean the chamber good,when switching back to brass,the cases will stick.so clean the chamber real good each time, specially if you practice with steal and have a mag full of brass for HD. there is an excellent video on you tube on this.if i come across it ill post.
You wouldn't use a steel cleaning rod, right? Well,on the ejection cycle (and this applies to bolt guns too) the ejector forces the rim of the fired case to the right where it scrapes alongside the chamber. Do it enough times and. --------------
Read post #10 above. The steel cases are way softer then the gun parts. Oh and guess what the military has been using for the past 30 years or so to clean their rifles, STEEL cleaning rods.You wouldn't use a steel cleaning rod, right? Well,on the ejection cycle (and this applies to bolt guns too) the ejector forces the rim of the fired case to the right where it scrapes alongside the chamber. Do it enough times and. --------------
Nobodys told my Ak or SKS about it then. Combined the two have at least 15k rounds through them without issue.Steel rubbing on steel will eventually gall the feed ramp and chamber even if the cartridge case is soft. The co-efficient of steel on steel is high compaired to brass on steel. Personally I wouldn't use steel cased ammo for a lot of shooting - once and a while it probably wont hurt.