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What, in your opinion and experience, is the crappiest ammo brand?

What about the one you like best -- your favorite?

I bought a box of A-MERC ammo the other day. I threw my back out right after we got home :cuss: , so I had nothing better to do than examine every round. This stuff is absolute CRAP, and I haven't even shot it yet... haven't decided yet if I will. Many of the copper-plated bullets are deformed, with one bullet seated crooked. Many of the primer pockets are also off-center, and the primers are seated pretty deep.

Luckily, I also bought a few boxes of PMC. They are externally perfect, especially by comparison. PMC gets my vote for favorite.

What are your best and worst?
Wes
 
American, by far.
The only stuff that has ever jammed my P7.

Best would be whatever is cheapest that works (for range ammo, obviously):
WWB, Fiocchi, Federal, Magtech, S&B, etc
 
I try and avoid aluminum cased Blazers. I once had a box with rims so soft that the extractor claws of several different pistols tore right through them, making for a great session of single shot. :rolleyes:
 
I've seen a few well-struck dud primers with the aluminum Blazer. That's about the cheapest ammo I've ever bothered to try. I'm starting to see that I'm going to have to get some reloading equipment and roll my own.
 
Worst ammo for me, so far.......Russian made "Silver Bear" in 45 ACP....and the Remington "value pack" 100-rnd .22LR from Walmart. The Silver Bear has out-of-spec rim specs and two of my guns won't extract it. It also seems to have bad QC on bullet roundness, over-all cartridge length, and inconsistant powder loads......the Remington .22 had several primers fail to detonate (compared to other .22LR I've shot) and the very loose bullet crimps caused MANY failure to feed issues in two different 10/22 rifles and a Mark II pistol. The bullet would actually get cocked at an angle with the case and cause these FTFs.

I've shot plenty of great ammo by Winchester, PMC, Remington, and Federal. All of them appear to be of good quality.
 
A-Merc by far.


Aguila.

I bought a case of .32acp that had too short of an OAL to function in any of my pocket autos. It's going to take forever to use them as the first round up the pipe.
 
The worst ammo I've ever shot is a tossup between Olympic and Ultramax. The Olympic had hard primers and took two or three strikes to fire, if it fired at all. The Ultramax turned my pistol into a sooty, dirty mess. After a few mags my pistol, hands, face, clothes, and anything else I touched was black.

Best ammo is my reloads. Also S&B works very well in my CZ's.
 
UMC is pretty bad. Really stiff primers and absolutely filthy residue in the cylinder...about 5X harder to clean than any other ammo I have shot.
 
the Remington .22 had several primers fail to detonate
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Our bullseye league shooters bought a bunch of Remington .22LR and we all have had repeated misfires to the tune of about 3 or 4 out of 50 rounds average. They have no primers in them. No matter how hard or how many times you strike them, nothing.

It got to where we were laughing so much we couldn't shoot because at every stage somebody's gun(s) woulld misfire and you'd hear:

"G---amn worthless ammo!"
 
blaser aluminum cased ammo is absolute crap. Highly variable performance. Last box bought had 5 duds (.380 out of a new ppk). The primer had enough umph to lodge the bullet in the barrel. Then it was wood dowel and mallet time.
 
Winchester Xpert .22 ammo

Winchester Xpert .22 ammo. Worst sh*t ammo money can buy.

Had VERY many rounds that jammed, and when they did, the lead bullet would be pointed up 90 degress to the case! (in many different firearms, which fed almost everything else with no problems) There were also plenty of dud primers, overpowered (blam!) and underpowered (thip!) rounds and those neat-o hangfires that don't go off until you've ALMOST waited just long enough to declare the round safe to remove from the pistol!

AB-SO-LUTE CRAP-O-LA!!!!
 
I bought a coupla boxes of Sellier and Bellot one time. Shoulda known better.

I shoot Winchester ammo only in my '94.
I like paper Federals for registered trapshoots. Handloads for bird hunting.
For other hunting (rifle and pistol) I will buy something good.
Hydrashocks, Gold Dots, or Golden Sabers for carry. Some guns like one more than the others.
I usually buy Wolf 7.62 for my AK.
Other than that I buy whatever decent stuff is the cheapest at the time for plinking and range stuff.
 
I dunno what the deal is with Wolf .357 but that stuff would alwasy stick in my cylinder. Their other offerings for semi-autos seem to work fine.

Crappiest ammo I've ever had was some Turk 8mm. Split necks and bullets literally falling out of of the case. At least the stuff was dirt cheap so no real loss on that batch.

Remington golden bullets are pretty bad as well. Dirty and really inconsistent.
 
Huh. I've had pretty good luck with Golden Bullet .22.
It seems pretty accurate out of my Mossberg*, and I haven't had any feed or FTF problems with them.

Anywho, my vote for crappiest ammo is some steel-cased softpoint 7.62x39, that managed to jam my SKS (came out of the mag pointing high, and stuck between the bolt and the upper edge of the chamber).




*Of course, maybe I'm just a crappy shot... :eek:
 
A-Merc , also known as American Ammunition tops my list.

I purchased some at incredibly dirt cheap prices.

I shot 20 rounds through my pistol and had the largest size group I ever had. I was thinking that my gun was dirty, or that maybe I somehow put it back together wrong or something - really, I was perplexed. After getting 2 failure to fires in a row, and then a misfeed, and 1 failure to eject, a little light bulb went off saying "It's the ammo, stupid".

I went home and did a search on this web site on "American Ammunition" and found out what crap this stuff was. Looking closely at the ammo you could seen that the bullets were malformed and set into the brass a little bit crooked, and that the brass thickness at the neck was different on nearly every round.

check out the following:

Glock kB with A-Merc ammo-
http://www.thegunzone.com/glock/g21kb4.html

Turner's Outdoorsman recalls A-Merc ammo due to squibs-
http://www.turners.com/turners/news_ammorecall.php
 
I have never seen ANY ammo as bad as "American Ammo". I have tried it in .32acp, 9mm, and .45acp. It makes Wolf look good! In both .32acp and .45acp, I noticed that the powder charge seemed to vary a great deal. It was noticable in the recoil and the report. Some loads kicked and snorted and others failed to work the slide. I don't think they actually measure the powder for the loads, I think they may just stand all the cases up and sprinkle gunpowder over the tops. This stuff is no bargin either, it cost more than WWB or CCI Blazer but it is copper washed lead instead of FMJ. Very poorly and cheaply made and it is not even the lowest priced ammo out there. Why anyone would even buy more than one box of this junk is beyond me.

The best ammo would have to be 9mm Black Talons. This is the best 9mm load I have ever shot and it was even hotter than Cor-Bon.

The best cheap ammo would be CCI Blazer in 9mm. In .38spl it is junk. In 9mm, it has proven to be accurate and reliable in some of my guns. The guns that don't like it, won't feed it but the ones that will, never seem to have a problem and I am amazed at the accuracy and power I get out of them. I don't get this level of accuracy out of the Win White Box stuff.
 
I think anyone who's tried it will have to vote A-Merc/American/ADE (NOT American Eagle).

It's by far the worst I've ever encountered.
 
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