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spacecoast · January 14, 2013, 07:13 AM

Herters is definitely Tula ammo, at least in 7.62x39 (check the headstamp).

I thought it was a very thorough and fair evaluation, and the authors did a good discussion at the end. Yes, if you have to shoot the same barrel for 10K rounds with little or no cleaning, you want to be shooting brass-cased copper-jacketed ammo, but most of us will never put that many rounds downrange, and financially it may make perfect sense to shoot the cheap stuff.

I'd like to see the same comparison made with 7.62x39 to see if the lower velocity make a difference in barrel wear.

January 14, 2013, 07:13 AM	#14
spacecoast Senior Member Join Date: October 14, 2009 Location: Sunshine and Keystone States Posts: 4,461	Herters is definitely Tula ammo, at least in 7.62x39 (check the headstamp). I thought it was a very thorough and fair evaluation, and the authors did a good discussion at the end. Yes, if you have to shoot the same barrel for 10K rounds with little or no cleaning, you want to be shooting brass-cased copper-jacketed ammo, but most of us will never put that many rounds downrange, and financially it may make perfect sense to shoot the cheap stuff. I'd like to see the same comparison made with 7.62x39 to see if the lower velocity make a difference in barrel wear. Last edited by spacecoast; January 14, 2013 at 08:59 AM.