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Thread: Wolf Gold Ammo
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13 December 2015, 23:13 #31
Speaking of this thread... what ever happened to Fort Tom?
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14 December 2015, 02:35 #32
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14 December 2015, 07:39 #33
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14 December 2015, 07:49 #34
It was $279 for a couple months at sgammo. But it had been dropping in $20 increments every four-six months or so, if I recall correctly. I've already got my reserve ammo, so it had to be a lower price to compel me to get more. $289 is still very good for anyone who needs to it.
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20 February 2016, 13:27 #35
It seems like Wolf continues to creep up in price and I continue to get less and less impressed with it. I grabbed two cases of it a couple of months ago and one is almost gone. Looking forward to getting rid of the second one. Behold (MK12 @100, 6 shots fired):
I've had only slightly better results out of my MK18. My M4 Block 2 has been okay out to 200y, but it's not terribly consistent like it is with Federal.
Same gun, same day (MK12 @100y with IMI 77gr, 10 shots). First three shots (two at 2 o'clock and one at 3 o'clock) were before a one click adjustment to the left to get it zeroed, then 7 more rounds fired:
I get it's not supposed to be match ammo, but when I can't hit a full-sized IPSC target at 200 with a gun that has no problem hitting smaller targets with Federal M193 or XTAC, I think I'm done.Last edited by gatordev; 20 February 2016 at 13:33.
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20 February 2016, 15:43 #36
Gator, I buy tons of the stuff. I also buy 500 rd boxes of green tip and Federal. I think it's kind of like reloading. You hone your load to a particular rifle. But with "store bought" ammo you might get 1 inch groups in one rifle and terrible groups in the next one. I get that with Wolf Gold, M193, and some Swedish stuff I have a lot of. If you can't get decent groups in all your rifles, or they all shoot M193 or XTAC well, then I'd ditch the Wolf Gold, but give it a try in some of your other rifles, other than the one that turned up those groups pictured above.
I can get good to very good groups out of three of mine with Wolf Gold. The other two, including my favorite "voodoo" rifle, spray them all over the place.
I haven't noticed any price increases, but I ordered my last case through Aim Surplus, which I can drive 50 miles to pick up, or pay about 13 bucks shipping. It's been about a month or so ago, so maybe it has creeped up here too, I'll have to check.
One last thing on the Wolf, It seems to burn a little cleaner, nothing drastic, but noticeable. The green tip wants to shoot some pretty lousy groups out of a couple of my rifles, but does fairly well in others.
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20 February 2016, 17:00 #37If you can't get decent groups in all your rifles, or they all shoot M193 or XTAC well, then I'd ditch the Wolf Gold, but give it a try in some of your other rifles, other than the one that turned up those groups pictured above.
Obviously First World problems, across the board.
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20 February 2016, 17:35 #38
On some other websites, that would count as two 1.5MOA 3-shot groups and we'd be hearing about how great the ammo is.
Kidding aside, that looks like about 3.5-4MOA, which is only a little worse than I'd expect from any bulk 55gr ammo and is perfectly acceptable for most plinking purposes.
I did pick up some of the IMI SMK loads (69 and 77gr) to see how my 18" WOA barrel likes it.
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20 February 2016, 18:31 #39
I've run my batch of the IMI 77gr SMKs out to 600y and it was very consistent and held together all the way out. I'm a little concerned about temperature sensitivity, as my chrono was significantly over-estimating velocity compared to when I trued it out, but the two days had a 30 degree temp difference. Then again, it might have just been my chrono being weird.
I'm going to run the ammo next weekend at a Defoor class, so we'll see how it holds up. Based on two weeks ago, I've got high hopes.