The Monarch brass 9mm I have bought was PPU headstamp. Ironically, it has a really nice extractor groove that runs great in everything I've shot it in.
The Monarch brass 9mm I have bought was PPU headstamp. Ironically, it has a really nice extractor groove that runs great in everything I've shot it in.
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Not another dime.
I'm willing to check out just about any brass case 9mm for $160/case. So I hit up Google, and everything I could see there also said PPU, but the back of the boxes they had were marked "Made in the Philippines" and the headstamps are Armscor headstamps. I wouldn't know when they made the switch, but it also seems that Herter's at Cabela's did the same thing recently, but I couldn't readily figure out who's making theirs now.
i believe my Google-fu said their steel case is made by Barnaul? I bought 5000 rounds of Armscor .22 late last year, and while it's filthy nasty stuff, it functions fine in my .22's that aren't horribly ammo picky. This would be my first experience with their 9mm.
I've seen a couple other folks somewhere along the way say they've had some extraction issues with some Federal ammo. I've shot a fair bit of Champion brass cased with no issues, and when I started chronographing ammo after Christmas, it actually comes in well above advertised velocity, where everything else thus far has been somewhat below, including the Black Pack. Black was on rebate the end of the year, so once my rebate comes back, it'll have been around .13/round, and I bought a couple thousand rounds of the stuff. I've shot somewhere between 1000 and 1500 rounds of it, and had 5-6 failures to eject between the two pistols. Shot a marginal amount through my PX4 compact and 9mm converted G22 with no problems.
Same here, it ran fine through my PX4. I went through a 500-round box of the Federal black box stuff and it ran okay too. I've reloaded the brass from both with no problems.
My guess is that Academy looked for someone to supply ammo for them and PPU got the contract; when that ran out Armscor got the next one.
I bought two cases of 115gr black pack after thanksgiving for $160 from Sportsmans Warehouse. So far I've shot about 1,000 rounds of it with 1 failure to feed. 25 yard 10 shot group size from a bench is about 4" for me, which is about equal to 115 Federal Champion and about double 124 American Eagle.
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$199.99 per thousand
Wolves don't kill the unlucky deer.
The website is here. Ammo is half price, but you have to add it to your cart to see the right price.