Ammo Review...

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Bayou Redd

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Not sure if this is the right place for post, but here goes...

About a week ago I went to the Pensacola gun show & scored a 9mm box of 500 rounds. I was pretty stoked about the score, but after today's range session, I'm not so sure...

The reloads were from "North Georgia Reloading" and I took about a hundred rounds to the range. The 100 rounds produced 4 FTF & 3 FTE. Not so hot considering they were all produced from a non-picky at all, 9mm Springfield EMP. The little EMP had no other failures shooting 50 rounds of MagTech, 50 rounds of Blazer Brass & 25 rounds of Hornady Critical Defense. The EMP also has over 1000 rounds of various lead through it with no failures.

I will say that all 4 FTF had primer strikes on them & that I ran them through again as the first round in the mag & all of them fired on the second strike.

All in all, I can live with these failures as long as I have no safety issues, but I will save the other 400 rounds to run through my CX4 Storm & hope for the best. I will scratch future purchases from North Georgia untill better feedback comes around...
 
Sounds like the primers were seated too high on the 4 FTFs. The first strike probably seated them correctly and then the second pass allowed them to go off. Disappointing to have such a high failure rate on that lot. I hope you got a good deal.
 
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