[Butthead]

Austrian, German engineering, it's all the same.

H&K, Glock, would probably still fire with backwards bullets.

 

[Nitro.45]

That is what you get for buying a Glock.

😆 It just never gets old! Such an easy target........hey, there’s an idea!

 

[Nitro.45]

Austrian, German engineering, it's all the same.

H&K, Glock, would probably still fire with backwards bullets.

😡Wilson doesn’t make mags for those!

 

[Butthead]

Wilson doesn’t make mags for those!

Wilson engineers didn't launch the first V-1 rocket either.

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[dsk]

It was a Glock, not an HK.

Poor HK. They spent so many years carefully crafting the message that their guns were the choice of elite professionals worldwide who refused to compromise, only for a single moron to "compromise" it by loading a magazine backwards during a photo op.

 

[9mm Colt]

"dings" in .45 brass

Gentlemen: Recently acquired a new Colt Government Classic, very nice shooter BTW. I have noticed a small "ding" on about 50% of the brass I recover. I assume the cartridge case is making contact with the slide upon ejection. Ejector issue? Is my assumption correct, and what might be a...

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[DW Steve]

I passed on buying Fioochi in .45 at my local Sheels today and now after reading this post I'm glad I did! I try to stick with the more major brands like Federal, Winchester, Blazer Brass, and Sig Sauer.

 

[Slohunter]

Never had any problem with their 9mm & .45 ammo and I reload everything I shoot.

 

[cecannonjr]

May just be a bad batch. The ammo companies are trying so hard to meet demand right now (and failing miserably). Quality is certain to suffer.

 

[dsk]

I do know that the quality of CCI's .22 ammo has never been the same ever since the post-Sandy Hook shortages. Before then their ammo was reliable enough to recommend to those who chose to use a .22 for self defense. Now it is merely the best plinking-quality ammo out there and has the lowest number of misfires. Unfortunately that's not saying much. It used to be that I almost never got a misfire with Mini-Mags or Stingers, but now I get at least a couple out of every 100 rounds. And regarding the other brands like Winchester, Remington or Federal, I've been seeing such a horrid number of dud .22 rounds lately that I no longer even enjoy shooting my semi-autos, because I can't even get through a single 25-round magazine without at least one or two misfires.

 

[Nitro.45]

Someone had chimed in about a year ago and mentioned that CCI has switched their priming compound to the same thing as everyone else. Eley and a couple others are the only ones left using the old method I guess. I am nodding my head about the dismal performance one can expect from the automatics with today’s garbage. The best (from “normal” offerings) that I have experienced is Federal Auto Match. But that’s today.....

 

[Oldsalt65]

Between 9mm and .45ACP I’ve fired tens on thousands of rounds of Fiocchi with excellent results and it’s become one of my preferred range ammunition.

One issue concerned me when I began shooting it is that the bright yellow, low brass, jacketed bullets Fiocchi loads are somewhat harder than the normal guilding metal jackets other manufacturers use and I was concerned about excessive barrel wear due to high volume shooting.

As it turned out, I’ve noticed no such unexpected wear in any of the high round count pistols I’ve fired it in.

I don’t reload anymore so I can’t speak to its suitability for reloading.

 

[Nitro.45]

I passed on buying Fioochi in .45 at my local Sheels today and now after reading this post I'm glad I did! I try to stick with the more major brands like Federal, Winchester, Blazer Brass, and Sig Sauer.

😆 well, that post was about two months ago. With current availability, Stevie may be eating those words!

 

[yeti]

Not had any issues shooting or reloading Fiocchi ammo or brass. All of it was/is pre-CV19 however.
I concur on it being a bit harder, but not too brittle as it doesn't split easily. No issue.

Better buy what you see these days!

 

[nikerret]

I have avoided two brands of foreign ammo for years... S&B and Fiocchi. Although 99% of it is good, the hard primers I have occasionally encountered were with these two brands.

Fiocchi headquarters is in Italy, but most of the stuff in the United States comes out of their facility in Ozark, Missouri. They are a small operation. I’m not very far from them and we get Fiocchi on the shelves before a lot of other brands.

I haven’t had the same experience with hard Fiocchi primers, but I have with the S&B. I’ve learned to keep the S&B for hammer fired and haven’t had problems. It’s only in strike-fired weapons I’ve had “light strikes”.

 

[Nitro.45]

Can you buy directly from the facility? Some actually have a sales area set up. I have a buddy up there that would be happy to grab some primers for me!!!

 

[therewolf]

I too have long preferred both Fiocchi and S&B ammo, and have never had a problem with either regardless of caliber. Having said that, guns are like people and will sometimes have indigestion with certain foods!

I have to agree, I use Fiocchi for .44 almost exclusively, never an issue. We all like S&B 9mm so well, we order bulk, for a group.

 

[Faawrenchbender]

I’ve ran 5-6k of Fiocchi in the last five or six years. Haven’t had any issues like some claim.

Some need to educate themselves about ammunition that is made in Missouri