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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aestus" data-source="post: 2670838" data-attributes="member: 2989">I typically avoid TulAmmo just because it tends to be the weakest ammo out of the bunch and less consistent in terms of pressures from bullet to bullet.  For the same price, you could literally shoot any other steel ammo that is more consistent and has higher velocities.  Typically Ulyanovsk Ammo has nice high velocities as they are  one of the few manufacturers that actually supplies ammo for the Russian military.  They produced the fabled 8M3 round in 7.62x39 that was the standard issue ammo for the Russian Military for a a long while.Despite the misinformation you hear from American shooters & Youtube personalities, 7.62x39 ball ammo (not softpoint or hunting ammo) is actually a poor round in that it has a tendency to create ice pick like wounds (almost worse than m855 out of a short barrel.)  The bullets will go straight through flesh and bone with very little damage from yawing or tumbling.  The Russians answered this by creating the 8M3 round, which is essentially a hollowpoint with the jacket scored on the inside that caused the bullet to violently fragment and yaw.</blockquote>