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I have several boxes of Independence brand (Lewiston, ID) 45 230gr FMJ ammo that I brought home from my brother's house after he passed away. I recently loaded some up in his P14-45 LDA (which I had already fired quite a few other brands out of with no problems) and this stuff kept jamming. So, I fed it through my XD, which, even though it is relatively new, has eaten everything I've put through it - until I ran this stuff through it.

Anyone ever tried this stuff? Bad brand or bad batch?

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I ran some independence .380 through my keltec and it jammed like 10-25% of the time, I certainly won't be using it again.
 
I've shot about 7000 rounds of it thru my HKs and other than a few duds, They were fine, a little dirty but fine. You might have had a bad batch or it might have been old or stored poorly
 
Poor storage is probably an issue. My Bro lived on the Texas gulf coast, and his house had a lot of hurricane damage. His widow just sold the house to one of those "flip" companies for about 1/4 of what it should be valued at. The brass has some corrosion marks, but the copper looks good. Fortunately, I have a few other .45s that are eating the stuff just fine. I guess I just need to keep it out of the XD and the P14-45 (I'm disappointed in the XD, frankly). As for loaded too light, the problem occurs both when chambering the first round and with subsequent rounds. Doesn't that indicate a feeding issue? I have three rounds on my desk right now that have had the bullet pushed about 1/4 inch into the casing because it wouldn't feed properly. Any ideas on disposal? I used to live about 100M from a pond and just threw bad rounds in there. I'd hate to just toss these. Is that safe?
 
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I no longer sell it. I noticed when I shot the .45 stuff in 1911 style pistols the bullet tends to be pushed into the case when it hits the feed ramp. That frequently caused the bullet/case to take a nose-up attitude and subsequently fail to feed completely. Happened with 3 different brands of 1911 pistols. That also causes a potentially serious over pressure situation.

I was able to take a round from the box and press the bullet into the case just by pressing the nose of the bullet on the top of my bench...didn't take a lot of effort. Same result from at least 3 different lots of the stuff.

Having said that, it seems to work fine in other .45 pistols where there's a more direct-line feeding from the mag to the chamber (ie: Glocks). I've never tried anything other than the .45 caliber load.
 
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