Just received a Freedomunition email that they re selling American Steel Ammo. It is cheap and wonder if it is any good?m
https://www.freedommunitions.com/9mm...15sn-c1000.htm
Just received a Freedomunition email that they re selling American Steel Ammo. It is cheap and wonder if it is any good?m
https://www.freedommunitions.com/9mm...15sn-c1000.htm
No idea if it's any good. Freedom munitions is kind of a love it or hate it proposition.
Just a wild guess but Winchester recently released a line of U.S. made Steel case handgun ammo called USA forged. It is already out, I've seen it on the shelf at Academy.
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2...ed-ammunition/
A friend sent me an ad from Natchez Shooters advertising Independence Aluminum.
You ever seen any of that, HCM? AFAIK, ATK is the only firm cranking out aluminum-cased ammunition. Is Independence just another branch of their "economy line" ammo tree? I've seen the brass-cased Independence stuff around, but never paid any real attention to it.
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Great. Hopefully Freedom is using the FM, IMT, Ammoload, or some other easily recognizable headstamp on those. I'd rather not have to use a magnet to keep them out of my press, what with how the cases are brass-plated steel.
Last edited by olstyn; 01-07-2016 at 08:49 AM.
Hmm, I dunno, but:Originally Posted by BCGlocker
The price ($203/case) is higher than I paid ($189/case) for new brass 124 Blazer at sgammo.com in October. I realize Obama is coming for our gunz, and prices have gone up, but that seems kinda middle of the road pricing for steel ammo,no? (I'll go check sgammo, brb).
EDIT: sgammo has 11 cases of Blazer 124 at $199/case:
http://www.sgammo.com/product/cci/10...-fmj-ammo-5201
My fancy pants stepped chamber German handgun manual says not to use steel or aluminum ammo, though, so I doubt I'd use the FM Steel ammo anyway.
Last edited by RJ; 01-07-2016 at 10:40 AM.
Independence is often ammo from IMI
I am the owner of Agile/Training and Consulting
www.agiletactical.com
Aluminum (at least, CCI Blazer and the new Federal Champion aluminum) works fine in HK stepped 9mm chambers*. I've shot a bunch of it through both a P2000 and two P30s. Will shot some in the USPc when I get around to it.
Steel is for Euro-trash metro-sexuals… regardless of the brand of pistol used…
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* It DOESN'T work fine in HK fluted chambers; specifically, the MP-5. I was forced to buy a metric shit-load of CCI Blazer aluminum one year for training ammo for the department. It ran fine in Sigs, Glocks, Berettas, et. al.; but was a total disaster in the squirt guns with the selector set to happy. I tried some in my staple gun (P7)… it was very "iffy".
Last edited by LSP972; 01-07-2016 at 07:16 PM. Reason: Additonal thought
"Often"??? What about when its "not often"?
And when did IMI start producing aluminum cased stuff? Guess I need to get out more.
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The only aluminum cased stuff I have ever seen has been from Speer, they cracked the code on that decades ago.
All of the Independence that I have seen has been brass case, and most of it was from IMI and rebranded.
I am the owner of Agile/Training and Consulting
www.agiletactical.com
You can now get aluminum cased 9mm/.40/.45 in the black-and-maroon Federal Champion box. From the bunter marks, it appears to have been produced at the CCI plant in Lewiston ID; as you noted, the birthplace of CCI Blazer aluminum over 30 years ago. A lot of the Federal Champion brass-cased stuff also has the distinctive Lewiston bunter marks. I've been noticing this for a couple of years now. ATK finally began cross-pollinating.
Re-branded IMI… okay, that explains something that wasn't clicking for me, regarding the Independence line of ammunition. Thanks.
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