PSA on Monarch 9mm

[Rainsford]

Academy sports acknowledged to me that they had a bad batch of 9mm brass with the casing labeled “TRN”. You can return it for an exchange.

[Garufa]

Bad how?  Is there a recall?

[Rainsford]

6 hours ago, Garufa said:

Bad how?  Is there a recall?

I had about a 25% failure to fire rate on a box of 250.

Edited Friday at 10:46 PM by Rainsford

[Garufa]

Ouch.  I bought two of those 250 packs around last Thanksgiving when they were on sale (TRN 24).  Haven’t shot any of it yet and hadn’t really planned to for a while.

Do you know if certain lots are questionable or is it all of it?

[Scotty]

If you bought it a year plus ago it was a different manufacturer. It used to be just rebranded magtech out of Brazil I believe. 
 

I think they switched the manufacturer to ZSR a Turkish brand that’s relabeled as a few more American sounding stuff when it’s imported. I’ve shot a few thousand rounds of that ZSR in the beginning of COVID price spikes and was fine with it, but people have differing reports, especially with a batch or two of 5.56. 
 

All this info is off of memory and pieced together from different forums but I think that’s how I remember it. I may have a Glock range mag from a batch I bought last year and can check the stamp at some point. 

[9mm fan]

i shoot monarch sometimes so i appreciate this sort of info, will have to take a look at what i have