lsudave
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So, I'm curious- how many new owners are around? I doubt many post here, we're all pretty much longtime shooters.Lie? No. Maybe that is what HE sells, but I have never seen anyone shooting Russian 9mm (9x19). My friend, one time, bought some in the 2010-2011 time frame. Ended up giving it away.
9x18Mak? Sure. 7.62x39 all day long...........
But the new guys- panic-buy a Glock or M&P, or something like that, in the last year. Looks for ammo. Looks for ammo. Looks for.... you get the point. What's out there right now? Tula 9mm, for somewhere around 60% of the price of whatever else is out there. So it's mostly online; we ARE talking about the Amazon generation- and the Covid scares have made it even more likely to have it shipped to your door, rather than go to the store. How many of them do you think care what the brand is?
Heck, I've shot a lot of brass, and if you press me on it, I can't tell you if Igman is any good, better than Belom, etc. I do understand Belom is a PPU sub-brand, don't know if it's better or worse than the named stuff. I haven't a clue on Igman, other than it's Croatian and they probably test the XD's with it. You can get Federal if you want to fight your way through a morning at Academy, some folks don't like that. And I don't know what version they have, even.