Barnaul 308 ammo out of hunting rifle

[fishslinger]

I was thinking I buying these Barnaul Russian made ammo for target shooting out of my 308 bolt action rifle, it says on the box that they can be shot out of hunting rifles. There copper washed steel jacketed lead core bullits in a zink plated steel case, non corrosive. Should I have any consernes with this stuff damaging my rifle. Can the Steel jacketed copper washed bullit damage the rifling in my barrel ?

 

[mihasic]

Here is what the Russians say about it:
http://forum.guns.ru/forummessage/2/1200316.html

Attention! Danger! Barnaul 308Win.
Yesterday, two more rifles died of Barnaul 308 ammo: Los'-7-1 and Vepr-308, by the very first shot, no recovery possible...
Some photos on this page
http://forum.guns.ru/forummessage/2/1200316-3.html

Other similar reports can easily be found.

 

[owlowl]

No, don't buy that. It can be everything bad you can imagine from wrong powder to double bullets in a single case. Quality control is amazingly bad, beyond believe actually.

If you already have any take them apart, get rid of the charge, examine cases primers, bullets and reload them back with your own powder. But I doubt it is worth the hustle.

 

[mihasic]

If you already have any take them apart, get rid of the charge, examine cases primers, bullets and reload them back with your own powder.

You can't. Do not forget it's a steel case.

 

[sk8r]

My BLR won't fire that stuff at all - it just doesn't strike the primer hard enough for it to fire. Fortunately I only bought one box & gave it away to a guy at my Club who has milsurps, which will fire it.