Those who haven't stacked steel cased ammo to the rafters over the decades will (unfortunately) have to open their wallets. Its highly doubtful any US company is gonna spend the coin to manufacture steel cased ammo, they will just ramp up production of brass cased ammo. Privi Partisan AKA Belom in Serbia manufactures 9mm and 7.62x39 in brass cased ammo and S&B in the CK republic also imports brass cased ammo to include 7.62x39 into the US.ĭomestically Winchester and Hornaday also manufacture brass cased 7.62x39. Import permits to my knowledge last 2yrs so if there are fairly new ones that have been approved they can still be utilized for about two years, however, the days of cheap steel cased ammo have come to end in the US.īrass cased ammo will likely be what becomes the majority of what will be available in the US after the 2 years have passed. IMO, I don't think there are as many countries as people think that are gonna make the substantial investment to manufacture steel cased ammo.įYI, Russia is the only country that still makes 5.45x39, Hornaday made steel case 5.45x39 at one time but it was pricey, kind of glad I never got into the AK74. One of the only countries that might make is it Romania but they are getting away from 5.45x39 and going 5.56 but did manufacture steel cased 7.62x39 at one time. The ammo factory in Ukraine was closed a while ago and will likely not be reopening.īulgaria and Poland aren't even remotely interested in making it. I was however surprised that the BrassMaxx performed well and finished ahead of (if not by much) the WWB. During that time I have consistently produced similar groups for the Federal Champion and Winchester White Box so I was not surprised in the least by the results for Federal & WWB (Federal has always been a little better in my experience).
75" dots from 7 to 10 yards every week during my "aim small/miss small" exercises now for 4+ years.
While I'm fairly certain that some reading this will dismiss the following accuracy comparison because it was not conducted from a Ransom rest or off of a bags at 25 yards, I've been shooting at these. Not being an ammo expert, my only concern here would be any potential issues resulting from the combination of undersized ammo in a pistol that has a chamber bordering on the high end of the tolerance scale. While my conclusion may be wrong here, it seems logical to me that the manufacturers are intentionally living at the lower end of the specs (and below) to greatly reduce the potential for feeding issues. Federal came in with 6 of 20 meeting minimum spec and the TulAmmo had 1 of 20 meeting the minimum. While all 60 rounds fell within SAAMI specs for length, I was most surprised to find that the average diameters for all three manufacturers were below mimimum SAAMI specs, and that none of the WWB rounds measured met the minimum spec. The following chart shows how the test samples compare to SAAMI specs and to each other: My first step was to look up the SAAMI (voluntary) specifications for 9mm Luger ammo. I still hope you also find the results interesting (I enjoyed doing it ). I detest shooting pistols off of a stationary rest or bags.Ĥ. I only compared 20 randomly selected rounds from each manufacturer.ģ. While the following test is not perfect given that. After shooting 400 rounds of the BrassMaxx over the past month with reasonable accuracy and no failures, I thought that it might be fun to take a closer look at how it stacks up to my two favorites.
Recently I've seen a significant amount of the TulAmmo "BrassMaxx" on the Walmart shelves and thought that I would see how it performed given that the price point was a few dollars less per hundred. While I have used many other offerings from time to time, these have been my go to ammo primarily due to availability, price and reasonable performance. For about the past 10 years I have primarily used Federal Champion and Winchester White Box as my standard 9mm range ammunition.
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