Independence Aluminum case 9mm

[Davek1977]

Just curious if anyone has shot this ammo, and what they thought of it for general range/plinking use? Hopefully its at lleast decent, because I couldnt resist the price of 149/1000 shipped from PSA

 

[ArchAngelCD]

I have not shot the aluminum cased ammo from Independence yet but did shoot the one from Federal. I see no reason to think it won't be good range ammo, especially for the price.

 

[Jim Watson]

Original CCI Blazer, Federal Aluminum, Independence Aluminum.
It's all the same company, surely comes off the same case drawing line, probably off the same loading line.
They just change the label every once in a while.

 

[wally]

Back when the 9mm CCI aluminum cased Blazer was "everyday low price" of $3.86/50 at Academy I shot literally tons of it -- I couldn't reload fmj for this price at the time. Never an issue. I doubt there are a lot(more than one?) of sources for the aluminum cases which is where the issues might be.

 

[Davek1977]

thanks guys....figured it was probably all the same stuff. For the price, it should suit my needs just fine. Now, to acquire more mags for my Tanfoglio TA-90 and I should be good to go for awhile

 

[Speedo66]

That's about the same price, maybe cheaper, than Russian steel which most indoor ranges disallow. Seems like a great deal if you don't reload. My agency used to use Blazer aluminum ammo for practice and re-qualification, I never had a problem with it.

 

[Winkman822]

I've run a bunch of this stuff through my P229, P30L, P30SK, and P226. It fed, fired and ejected every time. I'd say good solid plinking ammo and the price is right.

 

[BSA1]

It is a good price if you do not reload your ammunition or shooting in lost brass matches. For reloaders a extra $2- is worth the money.

 

[stchman]

It is a good price if you do not reload your ammunition or shooting in lost brass matches. For reloaders a extra $2- is worth the money.

How, I know a lot of folks that reload and none of them actually BUY ammo they reload. When I go to the range with them, they are usually bent over picking up brass most of the time.

 

[Davek1977]

It is a good price if you do not reload your ammunition or shooting in lost brass matches. For reloaders a extra $2- is worth the money.

$2 a box, or $2 a case....brass cased ammo comes in at about 50 bucks a case higher.

 

[GRIZ22]

Never had an issue with aluminum case in a semiauto. I've found that aluminum case 38 +P is sometimes a bit sticky on extraction.

 

[everydefense]

I can't speak to Independence specifically, but aluminum cased 9mm ammo (must've been CCI Blazer or Federal) runs fine in my CZ 75s (though it eats everything, period), but has noticeable feed issues in my wife's M&P. Even though I don't personally have any problems with it, I haven't bought another box of aluminum ammo since because the whole point of us having guns in the same caliber is to have complete (ammo) interchangeability

 

[Davek1977]

That is actually enouraging, because chances are, most of it will be shot through my Tanfoglio CZ75 clone

 

[Atla]

I ordered 700 rounds of it during that deal early this week also.

I've got several hundred pounds of brass in my basement since I don't reload, and decided why bother buying more expensive ammo I'm not gonna re-use the casings on?

I plan on running some of it through a Glock early next week. So I'm hoping for the best.

 

[C0untZer0]

IMO there will be a FTE, usually when the extractor claw tears through the aluminum. I don't use aluminum cased ammo in my EDC because I get freaked out about malfunctions with my EDC gun.

If you're just using this in a plinking gun, or you can chalk up any failures to the ammo and not have it bug you mentally - then its fine.

 

[Mike J]

I don't think I ever used Independence aluminum cased ammo. I was using the Blazer aluminum cased for a while. The only problem I had with it was in a Kel-Tec P-11 I use to have. The empty case would hang up in the chamber. All my other guns liked it fine. I just didn't use it in the Kel-Tec. Odds are you wont have any problem.

 

[Davek1977]

I ordered 700 rounds of it during that deal early this week also.

I've got several hundred pounds of brass in my basement since I don't reload, and decided why bother buying more expensive ammo I'm not gonna re-use the casings on?

I plan on running some of it through a Glock early next week. So I'm hoping for the best.

Sounds about like my situation....Ammo got here today, and looks decent enough

 

[Davek1977]

IMO there will be a FTE, usually when the extractor claw tears through the aluminum.

Are you speaking from experience, or have you read one of the 1 negative reports of such things happening for every 100 that says they've used it with no problem? Looking for personal experiences, as opinions abound, but an opinion without experience to back it is pretty meaningless to me

 

[C0untZer0]

I've cleared stovepiped aluminum cases from my own gun and seen the mangled rim. My HK P7M8 would occasionally just punch out a neat little notch in the aluminum cases - Blazzer, not Independence, but the P7M8 would still eject the cases due to the gun design.

I shoot with a friend maybe once every few months, we went to the range recently and he was running aluminum cased Independence ammo through his Beretta Nano. He had 3 FTEs that day. We chalked it up to the ammo since in all our prior shooting sessions using WWB and Federal Champion, the Nano never had failures.

I recently ran 50 rounds of Federal aluminum through my Glock 17L - with no problems, but the 17L is a range gun for me, it has a hair trigger and I don't carry it, it goes from the safe to the range and back to the safe. But anyway - there is an instance where aluminum ammo functioned fine at least for 50 rounds.

 

[everydefense]

I can't speak to Independence specifically, but aluminum cased 9mm ammo (must've been CCI Blazer or Federal) runs fine in my CZ 75s (though it eats everything, period), but has noticeable feed issues in my wife's M&P. Even though I don't personally have any problems with it, I haven't bought another box of aluminum ammo since because the whole point of us having guns in the same caliber is to have complete (ammo) interchangeability

I just realized that I had a typo in my post. I should've been more specific and avoided the word "feed"- I think all of my wife's problems with aluminum cases in her M&P were stovepipes/FTE. FYI.