Blazer 9mm light strikes

[Guest mikedwood]

I have shot the **** out of Blazer 9mm ammo. Always liked it never had a problem.

I have a Taurus 905 and took it to the range a few days ago and loaded it with 5, had a no fire and the darn brass got stuck in the cylinder. I had to pry it out with my pocket knife (it uses moon clips). Fired 5 more same thing. Darnit my guns messed up. Loaded 5 of my carry ammo. Went through it like a fat kid through cake, moon clip popped right out.

Ran 20 through my G26 not a problem, but the 905 messing up had me distracted. I left. (Btw Shadow if you read this the night sight worked great, was on target)

I kept the remaining 20 rounds and Sunday I drug the Sub2k to the range. Loaded it with 20 of the remainining Blazer and 2 no fires. I'm guessing light strikes. The Glock shot them.

I tried some WWB 9mm in the 905 and boom everytime.

What the heck is up. For now I'm blaming it on the Blazer. Anyone else had any trouble recently out of new ammo? I'm wondering if they are making it so fast it's crap?

[Guest offroader1994]

I looked at some blazer at wal-mart the other night and the bullet themselves were all beat up and looked like they were dropped and thrown around.

[Guest JHatmaker]

I've shot Blazer "Brass" 9mm and have never had a problem in any of my guns (over 1,000 rounds), but I've heard the standard Blazer 9mm isn't particularly good to use.

Apparently the case is made of aluminum or something and can expand when shot. Do you know which kind you were using?

[Guest 70below]

I've never had a problem with blazer brass in the past, but I haven't shot any of the pistol ammo I've bought in the last month if its a "lot" issue. I've heard CCI stands behind their ammo, write them, they may have you send the lot number and unused portion and compensate you.

[Guest CK1]

i've shot 1000's and 1000's of blazer brass from wally-mart....

i almost expect a "dud" every 300-400 rounds or so, but not 5 in a row or even 2 in a row...

that said, i just posted about my recent experiences w/ wolf here: http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/showthread.php?p=239675#post239675

i don't know what is up, it's cheap stuff, but 3 duds per box is ridiculous, and it is not the gun! maybe there's something to your possible theory of ammo being made faster, in the process, producing crap.

[poak]

I've bought and shot plenty of Blazer Brass in the last month. I agree the bullets and casings themselves aren't as neat and shiny as say, WWB, but I've never had any issues with Blazer going bang every time.

As for the blame, I think you have to blame the Taurus for being ammo sensitive, not the ammo itself as it DID function in your other guns.

[Guest slothful1]

As for the blame, I think you have to blame the Taurus for being ammo sensitive, not the ammo itself as it DID function in your other guns.

He said he also had failures in his Sub-2000.

[Guest frankcostanza]

Ive put dozens and dozens of boxes of Blazer 9mm through my Taurus PT111 and never had a problem

[Guest mikedwood]

It was the new brass ammo. I have never had a problem with the Aluminum stuff. Never had a problem with the older brass stuff. For range use I'll get WWB or Blazer whatever is cheapest.

The thing that concerns me is the empty shells getting hung up in the cylinder. That is some thin stuff. Neither the Gold Dot or the WWB did that so I can't blame that on the gun. I have read the 905 has an issue with light strikes. I wonder if it's just an ammo issue cause people that sent them into Taurus reported the problem still wasn't solved. I'd rather have a Smith J frame but I'm not aware of a Smith 9mm J frame and I like the 9mm 905 a lot.

Perhaps the Taurus is picky, perhaps it's my fault for trusting the cheapest ammo I can find.

Never had a problem and still didn't with the Glock.

Thanks for all the replies. I'm just still wondering a few things. Maybe the end result is if you put marginal ammo in a marginal firearm you get something sub standard.

[poak]

Maybe the end result is if you put marginal ammo in a marginal firearm you get something sub standard.

I think your conclusion is quite logical.

[Guest Todd@CIS]

My Dept uses aluminum Blazer as our practice round (.40 and .45) most of the time...we easily shoot over 20,000 rounds of it per year. We've never had a problem with it.

That said, any manufacturer can put out a bad lot of ammo. Two years ago, we used Speer Lawman (it happened to be cheaper than Blazer that year on the State bid) and we had a BUNCH of light strikes / bad primers in that batch.

As an aside, I've gotten better accuracy with aluminum Blazer vs. brass Blazer. Since it's just training ammo, it's not really a big deal, but it was enough to notice it.

Edited March 4, 2009 by Todd@CIS

[Guest mikedwood]

I went through a bunch of the aluminum stuff. I liked it.

I was reading on glocktalk the other day and someone had gotten a box of Remmington UMC that had a few badly positioned primers.

I also just checked ammunitiontogo and cheaperthandirt and they are out of most 9mm ammo.

I'm thinking they are making this 9mm ammo to fast and getting some bad quality on more than one brand during this time of panic.

[rjmech]

I use quite a bit of Blazer Brass 9mm through a P2000 and a Colt 6450. It has never failed to go bang for me.