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I have no doubt you had trouble with Wolf ammo, but I’ve fired over 10k rounds of Wolf in various calibers (.223, .45ACP, 7.62×39, 9×19 mostly) and I struggle to remember ever having a problem. I’m sure I had some misfires or FTFs, but I don’t really hesitate to buy Wolf if I’m looking for some cheap ammo. It’s dirty, for sure, but I’ve fired much dirtier stuff, and the price makes it worth the extra cleaning time.

I’ve had mixed results with our canine logoed ammunition maker. Unfortunately, my most recent dog walk was a bad one. My buddy and I challenged each other to an informal shooting competition, borrowed another friend’s new pistol (Springfield XDM) since it was a pistol neither of us had ever shot, and grabbed 2 boxes of Wolf 9mm since it was the cheapest box at the store: $9.79.

Each of us fired 3 warm up rounds, then I started my first 5 round string of the competition. (We were planning on doing 25 rounds total, best score wins). On my 3rd round instead of a “bang” I got a “click.” I racked the slide, aimed, and… “click.” Being a new pistol I was concerned so I tried one of the on-looker’s Ruger. Rack, Aim, Click. Off to the car I went to get my Glock 19 that has never not gone bang with a round in the chamber, but to no avail. Our competition devolved into plinking at soda cans with the remaining rounds that worked. The bang-click continued. Out of the 80 rounds fired there were probably 10-12 misfires.

I was disappointed because I’ve shot Wolf in the past and never had a problem. I’ve even recently fired an entire box of .40 S&W out of my Glock 22 with out a hitch. That box was so old the price label on it was for $6.79. I was further disappointed because I had just purchased 300 rounds of the 9mm stuff to keep for purposes that us gun folks keep ammo around the house for. Thankfully, the local gun store in town let me return the unused 300 rounds and trade them in for some higher quality ammo.

I also recently purchased 1000 rounds of .223 Wolf Military Classic Soft Points. I shot a 100 of those without a problem. I’ve never cared about how dirty the ammo is, I was in the Marines so am used to cleaning weapons. But a failure rate as high as we experienced has turned me off from buying their pistol ammo again. And I’ll probably pay extra for some better .223 next go around.

Back to the XDM, we also experience a problem loading more than 5-6 rounds in the magazines. The rounds on the bottom would jam inside the magazine and the ones on top would just fall out like gumballs from a machine. This could have been the Wolf ammo, I wouldn’t be suprised if the bullets weren’t seated in the casing far enough. I haven’t asked to gun’s owner if he’s had this problem with better ammo.

Ben you make some valid points. However, The problems I had make it just not worth the risk again. And that is why I said it’s a no buy. Also in these economic times I’d rather not buy a Russian made ammo. By American pay more and get more. As my father always says “you get what you pay for” amd in this instence I think he is right.

I think that it has been well documented that Wolf handgun ammo has problems as described. I must agree with Ben as far as rifle ammo: I have shot several thousand rounds of Wolf ammo, and NEVER had any problems (other than an occasional flyer that makes no sense)

Shambhala having never used wolf in my riffle’s I can not speak intelligently on the subject. However I did post this in Pistol ammo reviews. Based on your comment’s here I think I will buy a box if it to try in my AR next time I go out. Will review it at that point.
Frank

As further proof of my point of view, I came accross this site http://www.defensivecarry.com/vbulletin/defensive-carry-guns/69800-xd-issue.html
A brief copy of the post over there.
loaded up a mag or two with some Wolf 230-grain FMJ, pulled the trigger, and NOTHING HAPPENED. I did it four times. Same result.

I got the rounds out, and looked them over. Little dents in the primers, but no “bang”.

I put them into my Colt New Agent, and they fired.

Anyone ever hear of light primer strikes from an XD-45?

wolf sucks, bought 1000 rds. cheap.bad move.5 shots,3stuck casings in my ar15.

I only bought 1 box of Wolf Gold 9mm for my Glock. I shot a 17 shot clip of old, old Remington without a hitch. Never got another one of the 50 rounds (5 clips of 10) out without a failure to eject. It would cock the gun and rechamber the spent round. I measured the brass and found several rounds over .754″ long, the old stuff was never longer than .748. Doesn’t sound like much, but a longer casing may be the problem. Anyway, no more Wolf pistol ammo for me. I’m sure Wolf is great for SKS and foreign guns.

I shot almost 400 .308 Wolf rounds out of my remington 770 without a problem. they are consistent at 250 yrds my shots werent spaced any more than 1 inch. these rounds might be a little over kill on gophers and little things like that but thats how i like to have my fun and Wolf is a good cheap way to go and i still have never had a problem with them.

Hello all, i have shot many .223 and 7.62×39 and x54r wolf ammo, and honestly i wont be buying any more of there .223 and x39 rounds, like it has been pointed out im getting more *clicks* then bangs. my stag arms AR and my WASR-10 seem to be having problems cycling it, some times its so bad i have to cycle them after every round, and other times it can go for bursts of 3-20 rounds without a jam, it just seems to be a wild card with this ammo, but as far as there 7.62x54r ammo goes its fine, what im thinking is that its just the semi-auto rounds that have trouble cycling, maybe the powder is bad? not enough? not sure, but at 7.99 a box its hard to not buy it, only if the quality was a bit better.

45 acp. 223. wolf steel cased ammo. colt h.b. target over 6000 rounds. no problem ever. 45 acp 2000 rounds no problem ever i do not remember a jam or misfire. cheap 45′s made by hi score not colts.the first wolf that came out was smelly and durty but the later stuff is not bad i have 200 yd range in my back yard so i shoot alot mostley 30/06 but i have a large supply of military brass ammo. now for a problem
wolf bi metal case. what ever this is? i just bought 2000 rds because $199.00 per 1000. loaded 10 20 round clips for after market ar15 tgt bbl gun round 34 jam. will not extract cleaning rod destroyed trying to remove case.piece of drill rod and big hammer. could not see any damage on case or chamber. brownells burnishing reamer for 223 chamber. redid chamber with burninshing reamer. out agian with 10 ,20 round mags. and the bi medal wolf. 200 rounds no jam no mis fires 100 yard bench group size about 50 cent piece size no flyers. remember 45′s chamber on case not rim. so check your gun and buy wolf when you can get a deal

I purchased a new Rock River pro-series government model for work (Great Rifle). I sighted in the weapon with federal 55 grain FMJBT and was getting .5 inch groups. I then started shooting wolf 55 grain FMJ with steal cases. The first mag I had a miss fire (no big deal) it the same mag I had an empty shell get stuck in the chamber. I later talked with my local gun smith and he advised me that shooting wolf ammo voids most gun makers factory warranty. And advised me to stop shooting wolf ammo. Bottom line from as Infantry grunt and now a full time veteran cop. WOLF AMMO IS JUNK!

I recently bought 1000 rounds of .223 and wasted a day going to the range where they wouldn’t let me shoot the ammo. In California any ferrous content in the projectile and you cannot shoot it! They confiscate the ammo until you leave. I checked the website and the dealer’s website and there’s this mealy mouthed, intentional misrepresentation of the ammo. “Bi-metal”. It is actually steel jacket with copper plating. Why not say it? Because I would not have bought it if they did. Whether or not the ammo is good quality or great value, I don’t like being intentionally misled, or lied to. The dealer claims they don’t do anything but use the manufacturer’s marketing info, thus avoiding (they think) responsibility for mis-representing the product. It is a delicate legal dance to claim that this is truly “misrepresentation”, since they do not state anything about the content that is specific. If it said solid gold or depleted uranium and it was not, then there’d be a case. And this is my point. They know what they are doing and do it to mislead!

Sorry for those hate wolf ammo. I recently shot at 200yds in my savage bolt action, model 10, with wolf 62 hp and the spread was less than 2 inches. My friends that is pretty good for cheap ammo. Therefore; you can stop buying wolf and I will pick it up.

I definately would recommend buying a brands other than wolf. I bought a box for my. 45 auto and had my only malfunctions ever with that box. Never had one not fire just lots of chambering issues. I suggest spending a few extra bucks on something different.

Fired about 40 rounds of Wolf .223 Military steel-cased through my Sig 556 with no problems. A round from the third box failed to fire. The round jammed up the entire bolt mechanism. I had to pay the range gunsmith $25 to clear the jam. The responsible round had the bullet jammed all the way into the shell and was still live. Had this round gone off in the chamber I could have had a catastrophic failure which could have ruined my weapon and caused injury to myself. This stuff isn’t just junk; it’s unsafe. Stay away from it.

As A former Marine during Viet Nam,there was A good posibility that some Vietcong probility shot at me with this stuff,who knows,If it’s as bad as they say then there’s A lot of greatful americans alive to tell there story.

Sounds like there are some mixed experiences with Wolf Ammo. Over the past few months I have put 500 rounds of .45 ACP through a S&W 1911 and have not had a single problem. The ammo definitely seems to be dirtier than others I’ve tried, but it’s very accurate and has never failed me….just my two cents’ worth based on personal experience.

I took three boxes of Wolf out this Sunday. Brand new HK USP .45. Pruported to eat all forms of rounds with ease. All seemed well. The last mag full (12 rds) went thusly: first round lit. Second round lit and jammed half way outta the chamber. Dropped the clip and muscled the spent (and cracked) case out. Replaced the mag. The next round did the same thing, half ejected and jammed so dropped the mag and let the slide back in whereupon the case refused to eject. Holstered said expensive iron and took it to the bench at home to brass drift the stuck case out. Cracked same as the first. I have no other explanation other than I just got what I paid for; cheap crappy ammo. I’ll try brass the next time out and will probably have learned my lesson. I hope…

Just to give some info to u guys, some firearms just dont take well to steel casing or it may just be your magazine. I figured that out after shooting some bunk ammo called “Ulyanovsk” outa my fs2000. DONT EVVER BUY THIS AMMO. I had 2 clips of this ammo and i t wouldnt cycle and or it would jam… BAD. I called my dealer about the malfunctioning weapon (I was not happy as i thought the gun wasnt working correctly) he asked if i used different mags. I told him used 2 so it wasnt that. But then he asked about the ammo i was using and i told him what kind and he said it may be because of the steel casing. So my friend gave me 20 rnds of brass casing .223. I put 10 in each clip and they both rapidly fired flawlessly. The reason to this is that the extractor cant hold on to the steel casing as well as the brass so it wont function correctly. Thats the reason why the millitary uses brass casing. Hope i helped.

I will never buy wolf again, I ran 80 rounds through my dpms .223 and 2 rounds wouldn’t feed due to the cheap metal the casing is made of and 1 misfire. 3 out of 80 isn’t the best results in my book, not to mention some AR makers will void warranties if they discover problems were cause due to subgrade foreign ammo, so I no longer even use Wolf as a ammo to just burn up at the range. The same day fired many rounds of pmc and remington without a single issue. I also noticed the ammo seemed to walk a bit on paper but that may have just been me. I noticed some people in the forum have had good luck with wolf but it seems to be mostly handgun rounds.