kingpin008
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Not strictly a handloading/reloading post, but close enough I hope.
Just got back from the range a little bit ago, and I have to ask - has anyone here had any experience with Ultramax brand remanufactured ammo?
I bought two 150-rnd "value packs" at Dick's Sporting goods awhile back and finally got around to using one of them up.
They're 230 gr. RNL rounds, mixed headstamp. I was using my Charles Daly 5'' EFS, with two Novak 8 round mags and one Chip McCormick "shooting star" 8 round mag.
Out of 150 rounds, I got somewhere on the order of 6-7 FTF's, all on the last round out of the mag, from a different mag each time. The majority of the time the slide would lock back at the take-down notch, with the round being fully stripped from the mag but not chambering fully. Maybe once the round seemed to have chambered properly, but the slide was slightly out of battery. Including this range trip, I've put just about 700 rounds downrange in this gun. I'm not ruling out issues with the pistol, but I'm curious to see what ya'll have to say ammo wise as well.
What's more than that...out of the full box of 150 rounds, there were a total of THREE cartridges that I would not load at all. This included two rounds with a noticeable bullet "set back", and one round that felt EXTREMELY light.
Now, I know that setbacks happen, even in factory loaded ammo - but two rounds in a single batch? And what about the light cartridge? That seems pretty damn shady to me. I caught the first set back cartridge by pure luck - I was randomly checking out the headstamp because it looked odd to me (reg. old winchester, just partly obscured by a little dirt) and I rotated the round in my fingers to load it and I saw the OAL was noticeably shorter than the others in my mag. After that, I checked the rest of the rounds before I shot them.
What do ya'll think? Is this typical of this brand? I'm not that familiar with remanufactured ammo at all, so far I've shot almost entirely WWB and Remmie Green Box. Definetly won't be buying them again, either way.
Smoky as all get out too. Worse than WWB, even.
Just got back from the range a little bit ago, and I have to ask - has anyone here had any experience with Ultramax brand remanufactured ammo?
I bought two 150-rnd "value packs" at Dick's Sporting goods awhile back and finally got around to using one of them up.
They're 230 gr. RNL rounds, mixed headstamp. I was using my Charles Daly 5'' EFS, with two Novak 8 round mags and one Chip McCormick "shooting star" 8 round mag.
Out of 150 rounds, I got somewhere on the order of 6-7 FTF's, all on the last round out of the mag, from a different mag each time. The majority of the time the slide would lock back at the take-down notch, with the round being fully stripped from the mag but not chambering fully. Maybe once the round seemed to have chambered properly, but the slide was slightly out of battery. Including this range trip, I've put just about 700 rounds downrange in this gun. I'm not ruling out issues with the pistol, but I'm curious to see what ya'll have to say ammo wise as well.
What's more than that...out of the full box of 150 rounds, there were a total of THREE cartridges that I would not load at all. This included two rounds with a noticeable bullet "set back", and one round that felt EXTREMELY light.
Now, I know that setbacks happen, even in factory loaded ammo - but two rounds in a single batch? And what about the light cartridge? That seems pretty damn shady to me. I caught the first set back cartridge by pure luck - I was randomly checking out the headstamp because it looked odd to me (reg. old winchester, just partly obscured by a little dirt) and I rotated the round in my fingers to load it and I saw the OAL was noticeably shorter than the others in my mag. After that, I checked the rest of the rounds before I shot them.
What do ya'll think? Is this typical of this brand? I'm not that familiar with remanufactured ammo at all, so far I've shot almost entirely WWB and Remmie Green Box. Definetly won't be buying them again, either way.
Smoky as all get out too. Worse than WWB, even.
