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Originally Posted by SVTNate
El Gato is spot on. Also, however unlikely, if it can be proven that an ammo failure results in you being injured, with factory ammo you have someone to sue. Again, I don't know that this is likely, nor have I bothered to look for cases on point, but at least in theory when someone else made your ammo you might have a products liability case. You keep your options more open when using a product put out on the market by a company rather than using something you made yourself.
I buy Winchester Ranger by the case, at a very low price (no PM's please, it's through a private source). I don't practice with it often, but I'll run at least 200-300 rounds of it through each carry gun before I carry it. I also use Federal HST.
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OK... I am having trouble believing this whole topic is real and am thinking my chain is being pulled but....
Let me start by saying... I'm so tight I squeek!
In my business we see probably an average of a gun a year being blown to peices by faulty ammo... the last one was a Baby Eagle 40 and of course it was by a guy who bought "cheap" ammo 'cause he couldn't stomach shooting walmart white box.. too expensive.. I guess his brand new gun looks pretty cool with all of those peices sitting inside the card board box at home... At least he bought the ammo at gun store so they are trying to help him get it replaced... last I heard...
As for reliablity.. a Kimber I once owned would shoot between 2 and 200 rounds... you could never determine how many... before jamming... the first 300 rounds or so went perfectly.. after that sometimes a magazine full would jam, somtimes I could shoot a box or two before it jammed... never could tell...
I will shoot low round counts of hollow points in a glock/XD/M&P type gun (200-500) and call it reliable... if it is a 1911? a low round count to call it reliable is on the order of 500-100 rounds... and I do think bullet shape has alot to do with it... If a 45acp will feed speer 200 gr. flying ashtrays, it will feed most anything... unless it won't... and that's the rub...
If you are parsimonious... shoot ball for practice, ball for carry and don't shoot anyone/anything where the bullet might go completely through and hurt anyone or anything else and be done with it...
Les Baer says you need to shoot 500 rounds through their guns just to break them in....
If you buy "brother billy bob's bargain basement bullets in a bag" you deserve it...