Bazoo
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I find it's less available locally than it used to be here too. Before I started reloading, I used to use a lot of it in 357 Magnum, and it was good solid general purpose ammo. I shot a good handful of it in 45 ACP too.
If the price were the same for brass and aluminum .45 ACP, I'm taking the aluminum because there is a significant difference in weight. I can wave a box of the aluminum .45 with no effort, but brass case feels like a brick.Yeah I had a box of their 45 auto 230gr stuff and it shot very well. Like basically match grade accuracy lmao. But when you can get brass for basically the same price...
In what way is aluminum a 'benefit' over brass?
Didn''t Federal bring out their own line of aluminum case ammo not too long ago?.
When introduced, it was substantially cheaper. It even had Berdan primers which deterred reloading and saved the cost of the anvil.
Weight savings, I have some left, I will check the next time I am in the shop.
Oh, what problems have you had with aluminum cases ?For only 2.9 cents per round I would run the brass anyway. I don't like the aluminum cases, I have had too many problems with them.
Oh, what problems have you had with aluminum cases ?
Now do .38, .44, and .45~28 grains a round for 380. Every 250 rounds would save you 1lb.
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Oh, and what other problems have you had using aluminum cased rounds?In my 9mm AR pistol I had one totally blow the head off the side of the case leaving an aluminum ring in the chamber. I tried many things to get it out but the thing I tried that worked was using a 3/8" bolt, I used a file to cut three grooves up from the tip. Then I used a 10" extension 3/8 drive & socket to try to get the bolt to bite the aluminum case. It took a few tries of tapping & turning until the case broke loose but it came all the way out.
And this is just one of the problems I have had using aluminum case rounds.
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Had a sorta similar problem with some Blazer 9mm my dad had out in a garage that wasn't temp controlled down on the beach. Ammo didn't look like it was wet, but the humidity was always high there. About half the rounds in the boxes were misfires. Called and they said send it all back and they would look at it. Not long after that, I got a box for box replacement of the same stuff and a note saying the ammo Id sent in looked like it had been submerged. Funny, as the boxes looked fine. Always just assumed the humidity was the cause.Weight savings, I have some left, I will check the next time I am in the shop.
I know one serious disadvantage... in a rare case.
At the time of the Incident in 2010 I had about a case and a half of aluminum Blazer 9mm on hand. $3.87 a box was cheap even then. It was wetted down by fire hoses and by rain through the burnt out roof. It was a good while before I was in shape to recover it. But it LOOKED good, having dried out and only showing light water stains on the boxes. But when I attempted to shoot it, I had several misfires and then my friend noticed flash out the ejection port of the pistol. I picked up some empties and saw many of them had burned through, some just pinholes, some with long scorched splits. When I cleaned the gun, I found the chamber was scored by the blowtorch effect of the burnouts. FLG polished the chamber, the scores are still there but smoothed and not affecting extraction.
So don't get your aluminum ammo wet.