Is there any ammo you won't shoot in your AR?

[aslowdodge]

Like corrosive or steel cased? Some say corrosive is fine as long as you rinse and clean and lube when you get home. I've heard some won't shoot steel case for fear of damaging a good barrel ( but will shove anything inc this down an ak). What say ye Cal gunners?

[technique]

Not really. Since my AR is 5.56/.223 I expect it to shoot any ammo of that make...if it doesn't I would feel I have a gun issue.

[aslowdodge]

What about the lacquer coated stuff. I heard that can gum up some guns

[technique]

No issues there for me. Lacquered steel, steel, brass, nickle, dirty, foreign, commercial, NATO, 55gr.-80gr., factory loaded or home loaded...it all works well for me.

[CoyoteHunter555]

I don't shoot ATI ammo because it sucks Doesn't cycle well for me or many others, dirties my AR, and is accurate enough though for how cheap it is

[Reductio]

Whatever is expensive.

You'll have a hard time even finding lacquered stuff anyhow, it's mostly polymer covered now.

[BroncoBob]

Nope

[97F1504RAD]

I stay away from corrosive ammo only.

By the way not to many have the lacquer coating nowadays. WOLF use to but they now use a polymer that seems to stay on.

[nmerced]

Match grade because my AR is not worthy of such ammo.

[PyroFox79]

The stuff I can't afford.

[DavidRSA]

Hornady TAP training ammo has lacquer coated steel cases.

As an experiment I bought all the cheapo ammo I could find to test out how it worked on my AR. Wolf, Brown Bear, Silver Bear, Tula. NO problems except for one FTE with the tula. Gave my AR a good cleaning afterwards and that was about it. At less than 20c a round (Tula) it's well worth it.

[ren]

I won't shoot 9mm from my ar.

[pacrimguru]

i's avoid rusty or crushed rounds that you find on the ground at the range. that's about it.

[Solidsnake87]

Federal American Eagle and Federal Tactical .223 (193 series ammo). I avoid both types for QC issues that have led to the destruction of a couple ARs. They need to QC their brass better on this ammo. Also, there are some well documented cases of overpressured ammo. Other than these two ammo types, I'd say anything goes--even wolf

[stix213]

I don't shoot corrosive out of any gun because I am in charge of when I clean my guns damn it, not the other way around

Also, every instance an AR-15 catastrophic "I hope the shooter is OK!!!!" failure I have seen documented involved reloaded ammo (not that it can't happen in production ammo, I just haven't seen it in a detailed write up of events, so it seems to be EXTREMELY less common). So I'd rather throw money at cheap russian made steel cased than reloads.