Steel Jackets: Cause Barrel Wear?

[R1engineer]

Does anyone know if the Steel Jacketed Ammo (Norinco, Wolf, etc.)causes additional Barrel Wear? :confused:

[ August 10, 2001: Message edited by: EMDII ]

[gunhead]

Hi R1;
Steel jacketed? I thought that they were steel cased? I would never shoot steel jacketed with all the Copper jacketed stuff around :)
I know there are Copper jacketed steel core bullets but that ok on the bore as the copper is was engages the barrel :)

[R1engineer]

Gunhead: Thanks for responding. Many of the Chinese and Russian bullets have a very very thin "coating of copper (<0.001") but underneath is a steel jacket with lead core bullet. The Norinco shoots decent for plinking ammo, but I am concerned that the steel will wear the rifleing faster than copper. I wont buy any more, just wondering if the several hundred rounds I have will do any damage.

R1

[Wadman]

They are copperwashed mild gilding steel jacketed. We had a Q/A thread about this a while ago. It was decided that there's no harm to barrel rifling.

[R1engineer]

Wadman, thanks for the info. Do you know approximately when and which section that this thread was?

R1

[SidL]

go to the right hand top of the page, hit "search", type in "steel jacket"...