My wife and I shot a match this morning, and decided to hit the range this afternoon, as heavy rain is forecast tomorrow.
Lawman 124 is our primary factory 9mm ammo, with PMC 124 as our number two choice. Back during Covid, we bought a fair amount of ammo we normally wouldn't touch, and my wife recently suggested that we shoot that stuff up, to get rid of it. In the past week, we shot Norma 124 which was great, Southern Munitions 124 which was too lightly loaded for our taste, and today broke open a case of Zinc Point.
My wife was shooting one of her practice guns, which was a Gray Guns 4.7 Lockwood upper, Romeo 3XL and a custom tungsten grip module, with a Custom Works FCU. Her first target had some holes that looked like the bullets were tumbling, so I suggested she shoot a group on the head of a target. On the third shot, her gun blew up. Her hands were blackened, she had some small blood specs on her face, the Romeo lens was shattered, the tungsten grip module trashed, extractor blown out of the upper, and the case welded to the chambers, minus the rear of the case.
Here are some pictures.
A Google search shows many similar stories from Zinc Point, and I believe they are now out of business. The irony is we probably paid $600/1000 for this crap. We will need to bury 900 rounds of this stuff so no one else blows their pistols up with it.
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Originally Posted by davisj
