Blazer Aluminum 10mm ammo - 200 grain Good or not?

[Rmiked]

I ordered some 10mm ammo for my Dan Wesson Specialist. It is 200 grain , aluminum case and not brass. Can I expect it to function fine?

[HCM]

I ordered some 10mm ammo for my Dan Wesson Specialist. It is 200 grain , aluminum case and not brass. Can I expect it to function fine?

Based on 9mm and 45 cap Blazer aluminum in 1911's yes, it will be fine.

[Rmiked]

Thanks.

[Lester Polfus]

It's been 10 years or more since I shot any of that, but when I did, it ran fine through a Glock 20. It isn't super hot.

If you are one of the handful of people that own a MP5/10, you are in for a long day because MP5s hate aluminum case ammo, but I doubt that is your use case.

[willie]

I've fired a couple cases of Blazer ammo through various 9mm pistols without problems.

[fatdog]

I bought some of that last year right before Covid hit, good stuff, ran fine in G20, I found the lot I got to be sorta hot.

[Suvorov]

I have shot a fair amount of it and would be happy to shoot it again.

Come to think of it, I haven’t had an issue with any of the thousands of rounds of blazer in all calibers I’ve shot over the years.

[Rmiked]

I shot 50 rounds today thru my Specialist 10mm today. No failures of any kind! Not too hot for sure but accurate and reliable. I called Dan Wesson today after posting this thread since I am still in “break-in” mode. They said it is fine to run it, won’t hurt pistol, but if you get jamming issues with aluminum cases don’t be surprised. I was pleasantly surprised. I am running the Specialist wet and it is definitely getting broken in. Love the pistol!

[CraigS]

Pre chinese virus, my go to 9mm ammo was Walmart red box Federal in either brass or aluminum or CCI independence aluminum. Both of those were 100% so I suspect your 10mm will be fine.