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    Ammo of Choice For the M1 Carbine

    I hear there are a lot of jams with the Wolf brand. What do you guys find works best?
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    Wolf is inaccurate and VERY dirty. It had group sizes over double the Remington and Winchester I used. Because of the steel cases and the coating they use, it does not like to feed, especially from 30 round magazines and from firearms with compressed recoil springs. Most of the FTF and FTEs I have ever had from numerous carbines was with Wolf. Some say Wolf is hard on extractors, and that may be true, as I chipped one with it.

    For practice and match, I use Remington 110 FMJ from Walmart ($25/50). It clocks at 1930 fps (lake City is 1970, but hard to find) It prints to the same point of aim as Remington 110 grain Soft points that I keep in the weapon for use as a PDW home and farm gun. Walmart around here ALWAYS has it in stock, even in the bad times. Winchester USAicon is good ammo too, but I have not shot as much of that as the Remington.

    If you can find it, the best is Magtech from Brazilicon. It clocks out at just over 2000 fps, and is also very accurate.

    Aguilla is underpowered and clocks at about 1850 fps. I had problems (FTEs) the one time I tried it in a carbine with a new recoil spring. I put in a slightly degraded spring and it worked OK. Aguilla will shoot lower than everything else at 100 yards, so you are stuck choosing between sighting it in for Aguilla or higher power like Remington and Magtech.

    Just my personal experience (not hearsay). Your milage may vary.
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    I have to agree with above. the Magtech is about the best and the price is reasonable too.

    I however, shoot almost exclusively lead bullets in all of mine. I use a 115 grain round nose bullet and use 4227 powder and get great results, good accuracy and hardly ever a feeding problem and never a ejection problem. I have some Aguila that I bought from CMPicon in April, it is decent but not very accurate. I generally use it to get the brass.

    For jacketed bulelts use Magtech you will not be disappointed.

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    I agree with thumper...if you can get the Magtech, use it. I had 1000 rounds and loved it. Very accurate, and like the Remington stuff, the Soft Point Magtech shoots to the same POA as the FMJ. Then supplies dried up when ammo got hard to get. Haven't found a reliable source for it yet, that's why I switched to Remington.

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    Anyone use Prvi Partizan 110gr? Easy to find, and about $.36 a round. Just curious what you serious shooters think of it.

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    I have a beater Racker NPM that I shoot Wolf & other steel case stuff thru. That one I really dont care, its my plinker with a barrel that wont even gage. Now for my collector's I use only Brass Case, primarily Remington & Aguilla. Never had any issues.

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    I use it, it's good ammo. No problems, and you can get it for $17.95/box 50 at Wrigleys Ammo.

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    Thanks for the info. I've only shot about 200 rds of it so far, thru 3 different carbines, with no issues.

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    I prefer the Prvi Partisan. I have also fired the S&B, and while it shoots ok, it has had a few feed/extraction malfunctions in my two carbines. I have 500 rnds of Aquilla that I've yet to try. To date, I prefer either USGI surplus (where to find nowadays?) and then the Prvi.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oscarlovel View Post
    I prefer the Prvi Partisan. I have also fired the S&B, and while it shoots ok, it has had a few feed/extraction malfunctions in my two carbines. I have 500 rnds of Aquilla that I've yet to try. To date, I prefer either USGI surplus (where to find nowadays?) and then the Prvi.
    Aguila is known to be slow, about 100'/sec low. I think it runs about 1870 IIRC.

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