I load these for about $.75 each.Start reloading! Buy a Dillon 550. Look in to it.!
I load these for about $.75 each.Start reloading! Buy a Dillon 550. Look in to it.!
I'm not sure you can reload 9mm ammo practice much cheaper then bulk buys if you price shop.Start reloading! Buy a Dillon 550. Look in to it.!
I'm not sure you can reload 9mm ammo practice much cheaper then bulk buys if you price shop.
Equation changes for other calibers.
My favorite 9mm practice ammo is Winchester "NATO" 124 grain. Using Hornady Critical Defense as
carry ammo right now but will use any quality name brand if it's not avail.
9mm/ 124G FMJ / $11.99 / box / works perfect in my Max9. Free shipping if you order $199 worth.I love going to the range.
Can anyone suggest a brand that I can use for the range and protection that won't break the bank? Of course, I'm looking for something reliable.
Thanks
You were smart to buy it when you did. Costs never go down. That is for sure.If you're OK with FMJ 'blasting ammo', I doubt it's worthwhile to start reloading right now.
I'm loading 9mm with plated HP bullets under 20 cents per round but only because I bought everything except the bullets over a decade back. At today's prices, 25 cents a pop blasting ammo is as good as it gets.
While I do not own any pistols, I have a Ruger .45 Convertible Blackhawk, which allows me the ability to shoot either the .45LC or the .45ACP with a cylinder swap. I have found early own that the steel wolf ammo is a bit of a problem, and I stay away from all steel ammo. Since my gun is a revolver, the issue is not that it locks up the gun or doesn't advance the ammo, but rather that it expands too much, and very often and the manual ejection of the casings is almost always more difficult. Also, if I recall correctly, that Wolf ammo left quite a bit of residue (was dirty).I'm more concerned about the sometimes widely varying powder charges in WWB ammo than I am the lack of cleanliness. Speaking of dirty ammo, did you ever shoot any of the old Wolf steel-case stuff when they first began importing it? That stuff was funky, at least the .45 ACP that I sampled. Smelled bad, too.
I do not think that Blazer aluminum 9 mm ammo this is the lowest costing 9mm ammo today. I have seen several ads for 9mm ammo that costs between $.24 - $.25 and these are NOT Blazer aluminum ammo. I get 10-20 emails a day about ammo sale, and almost all of these include 9mm ammo. If you are interested in online ammo pricing and availability, message me for my ballistics file which has pricing and ballistics info, which includes 400 9mm online retailers links, as well as online links for 34 other handgun calibers, as well as 25 different rifle calibers, with a total of over 3,500 entries combined, where each is a link to an online retailer. For example, in my file, there are over 500 .45ACP links, 175 entries for .45LC, 138 for .38 Spec, 240 entries for .357 Mag, 103 for 10mm,179 for 380 ACP, and many more.Blazer Aluminum is cheapest.
I would like to know where these ammo test are online. So far, I have only found such 'tests' on You Tube, and most of these are very biased and offer extremely limited testing - they choose a specific ammo and compare it to a different caliber, which really tells you very little since in the case of popular calibers there is a huge range of ammo offered due to such things as different power levels and bullet types within that caliber.For range ammo, I like Fiocchi and SIG FMJs.
For defense ammo in 9mm, I like Federal HSTs in 124gr.
You can find some really detailed ammo tests/comparisons online if you want to see specifics of velocity, penetration, expansion, etc