“If you do not own a rifle that will reliably cycle steel-cased ammunition, you had better get your hands on one.” Those words of advice were offered by my original firearms training mentor, John Farnam, nearly ten years ago. John saw the ammo crisis of 2013 coming a mile away. Russian/Soviet arms, particularly the AK, were built around a lacquered steel case cartridge. Lacquered steel cased ammunition is much less expensive to manufacture and that has always been the model for Russian arms; make as many as you can, at the lowest cost, thereby equipping as many soldiers as possible. In the USA we like to shoot steel-cased ammo because it gives us more bang for the buck. When it…
