Barnaul 9mm
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This stuff is dirty and stinks as others have noted. I tried out a 100 rounds just yesterday through my Glock 17 (it was all my range had). Seemed to work fine except for 1 light primer strike which has never happened before in this gun. I asked the guys at the range and they've said the have seen a few instances of a light primer strikes using this ammo.
It's cheap but I doubt I'll be buying anymore of it. Its not totally reliable and the amount of carbon that built up seemed excessive for just a 100 rounds! Not worth the savings IMO.
It's cheap but I doubt I'll be buying anymore of it. Its not totally reliable and the amount of carbon that built up seemed excessive for just a 100 rounds! Not worth the savings IMO.
Unfortunately I bought 1,000 rounds of this stuff.
About 5% of the time, the case fails to extract from the chamber. The round went off, but the spent case doesn't come out. The slide manages to cycle back and tries to feed a new round. Classic double feed.
Hard to fix though. After locking the slide back and removing the mag, I'll let the slide back forward so the extractor grabs the spent case again. But at this point you can't pull the slide back. Using all my strength I couldn't get the slide back. Sometimes I can clear it by pulling the slide back. Sometimes I have to field strip the gun and use a jag (from the muzzle end) to knock the case out.
Weird, because this Barnaul ammo looks very similar to 1,500 round of LCW I ran through the same gun. Not a single problem with the 1,500 rounds of LCW. So far I've shot around 200 rounds of this Barnaul stuff and probably had 5-6 Failures to Extract.
All other ammo I've tried in the same gun hasn't had any problems.
Definitely won't be buying any more.
About 5% of the time, the case fails to extract from the chamber. The round went off, but the spent case doesn't come out. The slide manages to cycle back and tries to feed a new round. Classic double feed.
Hard to fix though. After locking the slide back and removing the mag, I'll let the slide back forward so the extractor grabs the spent case again. But at this point you can't pull the slide back. Using all my strength I couldn't get the slide back. Sometimes I can clear it by pulling the slide back. Sometimes I have to field strip the gun and use a jag (from the muzzle end) to knock the case out.
Weird, because this Barnaul ammo looks very similar to 1,500 round of LCW I ran through the same gun. Not a single problem with the 1,500 rounds of LCW. So far I've shot around 200 rounds of this Barnaul stuff and probably had 5-6 Failures to Extract.
All other ammo I've tried in the same gun hasn't had any problems.
Definitely won't be buying any more.
Me and the wife purchased 2000 rounds of this stuff and just shot 500 of it this past week.
My sig 226 had about a dozen or so misfires in 250 rounds but fired the second time around. the wife's cz shadow had no failures. Extremely dirty and smoky stuff.
I'm going to stick with federal/Winchester and Canadian bdx ammo from now on, the Russian ammo is slightly cheaper but no worth it.
My sig 226 had about a dozen or so misfires in 250 rounds but fired the second time around. the wife's cz shadow had no failures. Extremely dirty and smoky stuff.
I'm going to stick with federal/Winchester and Canadian bdx ammo from now on, the Russian ammo is slightly cheaper but no worth it.
