WOLF Performance Ammunition is a trademark associated with
Sporting Supplies International (SSI), a corporation in the United States. It was founded in 2005. The ammunition was primarily manufactured by the
Tula Cartridge Plant
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Tula District,
Russia
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, from 2005 to 2009. Some .22-caliber
rimfire ammunition
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is made by ''
SK Jagd und Sportmunitions SK may refer to:
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GmbH'' (SK Hunting- and Sporting-Ammunition) of
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Products
WOLF Performance Ammunition has several product lines which include:
* WOLF Polyformance – Polymer-coated steel-cased civilian-market hunting-cartridge ammunition from Russian factories. It comes in a black box.
* WPA (WOLF Performance Ammunition) Military Classic – Polymer-coated steel-cased military-cartridge ammunition from Russian factories. It comes in a tan box with a camouflage pattern.
* WOLF Gold – Brass-cased civilian-market ammunition. (Unlike the steel-cased ammunition, the brass-cased ammo is more easily reloadable.) Formerly made by
Prvi Partizan
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, it is now manufactured in Taiwan. It comes in a white box.
* WOLF Rimfire – Match-grade .22LR ammunition from
Germany
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and Russia. Comes in a black box.
* WOLF Shotshell – Shotgun ammunition with polymer-hulled shells.
** .410 Bore and 28 Gauge (Crimson Hulls)
** 20 Gauge (Yellow Hulls)
** Target Sport (Blue Hulls) shells are for skeet and target shooting.
** Dove and Quail (Red Hulls) and Heavy Dove and Quail (Red Hulls) shells are for hunting small game birds. With the Heavy Dove and Quail having a larger amount of birdshot.
** Pheasant (Orange Hulls) shells are for hunting medium game birds.
** Water Fowl (Black Hulls) steel shot shells are for hunting large game birds like ducks and geese.
** Power (Opaque White Hulls) slug or buckshot shells are for deer and other large game animals.
* WOLF Performance Primers: WOLF makes its own primers for loading or reloading centerfire cartridges.
* WOLF Performance Gear & Apparel: WOLF sells its own brand of gun carrying cases and clothing.
Unlike some suppliers of such bargain-price ammo, WOLF uses newly manufactured rounds with non-corrosive
Berdan- and
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-type primers. Russia is the world's largest source of
7.62×39mm
The 7.62×39mm (aka 7.62 Soviet, formerly .30 Russian Short) round is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge of Soviet origin. The cartridge is widely used due to the worldwide proliferation of Russian SKS and AK-47 pattern rifles, as ...
ammunition, which is used by the
Russia
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AK-47
The AK-47, officially known as the ''Avtomat Kalashnikova'' (; also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is a gas operated, gas-operated assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge. Developed in the Soviet Union by Russian s ...
and
SKS family of rifles, as well as the
Ruger Mini-30.
T91 uppers have also been exported to the United States through Wolf Ammunition, Wolf Performance Ammunition. When it was first released Wolf was reported to have sold more than a thousand uppers in one day.
Current events
Since 2009 The
Tula Cartridge Plant
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Ulyanovsk Machinery Plant (owned by Tula Cartridge Works since 2005) no longer manufacture cartridges for Wolf due to legal disputes.
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See also
* 7.62×54mmR
The 7.62×54mmR is a rimmed rifle cartridge developed by the Russian Empire and introduced as a service cartridge in 1891. Originally designed for the bolt-action Mosin–Nagant rifle, it was used during the late tsarist era and throughout t ...
* 6.5mm Grendel
The 6.5mm Grendel is an intermediate cartridge jointly designed by British-American armorer Bill Alexander, competitive shooter Arne Brennan (of Houston, Texas) and Lapua ballistician Janne Pohjoispää, as a low-recoil, high-precision rifle cart ...
* 9×18mm Makarov
The 9×18mm Makarov (designated 9mm Makarov by the C.I.P. and often called 9×18mm PM) is a Soviet pistol and submachine gun cartridge. During the latter half of the 20th century it was a standard military pistol cartridge of the Soviet Union an ...
* Red Army Standard Ammunition
Red Army Standard Ammunition is a trademark associated with Century International Arms (CIA), an arms and ammunition corporation in Delray Beach, Florida, United States. The official spelling of the brand's name is faux Cyrillic, written as RЭD ...
* Barnaul Cartridge Plant
* Tula Arms Plant
Imperial Tula Arms Plant (russian: Императорский Тульский оружейный завод, Imperatorskiy Tulsky Oruzheiny Zavod) is a Russian weapons manufacturer founded by Tsar Peter I of Russia in 1712 in Tula, Tula Oblast a ...
References
External links
Wolf Ammunition Official Site
The Tula Cartridge Works (Russian)
Ammunition manufacturers