Apex Heavy Duty striker range report

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Jedi Knife

Discussion Starter · Aug 28, 2019

Before going to the range I picked up the cheapest box of Russian steel cased ammo (Monarch) from the local sporting goods store just to see how they would function. I also carried some bulk Blazer brass 115 gr. I shot at 150 or more of the Blazer with no problems. I did however find 5 duds in the Russian steel cased. Looking at the primers it seemed like they had the dimples where they had been struck soundly with the striker but I have absolutely no prior experience with this or any other Russian and/or steel cased ammo so I don’t know what to expect performance wise. Everything cycled reliably if it went bang, so that’s always encouraging. Just thought I’d put this out there FYI.

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Dirty old ginge

· #3 · Aug 29, 2019

Nice. Some Russian primers are hard. Try to run them through another time and they should ignite.

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Dirty old ginge

· #7 · Aug 30, 2019

Mjolnir01 said:
Russian ammo is known to give many Western firearms issues with hard primers and extraction concerns as well as gumming up some actions due to the lacquer they used to slather on the steel case to prevent corrosion.

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Yup.

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Dirty old ginge

· #8 · Aug 30, 2019

Its not the strikers, or the gun, just cheap, run of the mill Russian ammo. Typical for these issues. If you’re going to shoot Russian ammo, avoid the lacquer casings, and go with the polymer coated rounds. You’ll still gum up your action and have hard primers to deal with.

Comes with the territory with Russian ammo.

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Dirty old ginge

· #11 · Aug 30, 2019

Shadetree said:
Don’t believe anything negative that anyone posts about cheap steel case Russky ammo. After-all, just because it’s almost as cheap as .22 cal and steel, what could go wrong? I recommend you buy it in 1k quantities for an even more cost effective way to reduce the per round cost.
Why is it so much cheaper, why don’t more manufactures produce it and why don’t more people use it? The real question after that is, how many hundred or thousand rounds of this junk will it take before FN gets bashed because your firearm is gunked up and the barrel needs to be replaced! But then again, maybe you’ll be the exception and have good results.

He’s already experienced one of the downsides to garbage ammo. Lol.

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