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Remington UMC 9mm any good???

45K views 22 replies 12 participants last post by  Ssanders224  
#1 ·
Hey guys,
Need your opinion on the ammo mentioned in title. I have never shot the UMC 9mm before because it is just priced to high locally for range ammo. But my local Dicks is having a sale today and its 9.98 a box. Pretty darn good local price on 9mm ammo period!

Is the stuff worth buying? I have read mixed reviews online. I have actually already bought a few boxes earlier today, but will go back and buy more if anyone with experience with the Rem. UMC thinks its worth it?
Thanks for the info!
 
#2 ·
My Beretta px4 storm sc and Ruger P95 does not like it. With both I was haveing alott of cycle issue's, not working the slide fully. My ruger will shoot anything except for Monarch's and UMC. The Beretta is kinda picky with the stiff recoil spring's for the short slide. I had WWB with me and they ran 100%. The sad thing I had 200 rounds left, that I had to shoot up. My buddy was with me and his Sig wouldn't run with them. I ask my dad not to buy them for Christmas again. Maybe it was a bad batch, but that's my dealing with them.
 
#5 ·
I bought some remington shurshot's in 9mm 115fmj and they ran fine in both. I got a para pda 9mm that is real picky. The only thing I can make run it is CCI blazer aluminum case and Hornady CD.
Like the post above, they run in his gun. I would atleast give them a try, they will either run or not. Don't just go by my own experience. This has been said many times.. What run in yours, might not run in mine's.:rock:
 
#7 ·
I'm using them in my new Kimber SS Target. On the first couple of mags the slide wasn't always locking back, so I oiled it some more. After the first box of 50 the Kimber settled down and now shoots them just fine. Accuracy is good, and the UMC 115grs are pretty soft compaired to my milspec shooting 230 fmj's, and 200 lswc's.
 
#13 ·
Relative to other new 115gr FMJ, it seems to be on the lower power side. It will cycle properly in most of my 9mm's, but not all. The Remington cases tend to be thinner than most others, so if you reload, I definitely wouldn't recommend it. If you don't reload, then that obviously doesn't matter. I have not bought it in a long time because I've always been able to find an equally good or better deal on 9mm with a little more punch to it. The bottom line is that you have to try it out in your pistol to see if it works.
 
#14 ·
Sounds to me like several of you have "gun" problems, not ammo problems. I have shot brick after brick of this stuff with no, as in exactly 0, failures out of my Glock 9mm's. What if someone here brought up a thread with cogent arguments about the reliability of this Sig, or that Beretta? Then we would question the ammo!
 
#15 ·
That's what I hear all the time by yall Glock guy's all the time. It'll eat anything. It's kinda funny when you have another brand that will run in the gun's no problem, without cleaning.
Like I stated in my first post, it could have been a bad batch. Have I tried them since , no and won't. I had a bad experience with them and I'm not going to chance it again. Would you?
According to your post, it must be a gun problem because it wont shoot them. Maybe the one gun that will run the UMC's, but not WWB must have gun issue's, according to you.
I'm sure you have heard, try different ammo and stixk with what performs the best. And we all don't own Glock's:rofl:
 
#16 ·
Runt,

Point taken that mot everyone owns Glocks. That being said, in my mind if one gun will shoot every kind of ammo without flaw, and another will not, then it is the gun to blame not the ammo. That is why I have owned other brands and have since traded them for Glocks, (except my 1911's of course). If your Ford would not run regular unleaded, only premium, would you buy the Ford just because they didn't take a government bailout? Okay, well maybe, but you get my point.

P.S. England Arkansas, A.K.A God's country. I'm originally from Stuttgart.

C.
 
#19 ·
My brother live's in Sugartown. As a matter of fact I'm sitting in a tree at Bayou Meto.:hrm:
I can't comment on a Glock's shootability, never touched one. But this IMO, the 3 inch barrel gun's has a stiffer recoil springs and need's a hotter round than a 4/5 inch model.
The UMC was a little better in my Ruger, but would still have maybe two failures every 30/40 rounds. My 3inch Beretta was 1/3 every mag, 13 round mag.
 
#22 · (Edited)
I shot the heck out of this stuff in all my 9mm I like it THUMBS UP and it's especially good my new RIA tactical 1911 in 9mm and my Springfield XD compact it's accurate enough the brass is good and functions fine in all my 9mm.

Right now Dicks has it on sale at 9.98 a box around here.