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Experience buying from "Freedom Munitions" ??
JTH:
--- Quote from: Bucket on January 26, 2014, 04:18:17 PM ---I just bought 500 rounds of 9mm from High Country ammo today through Gunbot. It was listed at 23 cents per round, with shipping it came out to about 27.5. Decent price, hope it shoots as well as the Freedom stuff.
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Holy crap. Ok, now I remember why I reload. And yes, I know that it a decent price for practice ammo right now. And yet....I reload competition-precise ammo for about 15 cents a round.
That all being said---gunbot is great. Very useful for buying self-defense ammo, if you buy in (relative) bulk, 200-300 rounds at a time.
I've heard that for practice, Freedom Munitions makes perfectly good ammo. If you aren't going to reload, Blazer is decent, too. If your gun will handle steel cases, Tula and Wolf work fine, too, though they'll wear your barrel a tiny bit faster. (But if you shoot enough for that to happen, you probably already reload. :) )
For general practice, as long as the velocity and bullet weight are roughly the same you can use FMJ to practice even if you use JHP for self-defense (which of course you do).
Granted, you want to check to make sure your FMJ and JHP rounds are hitting to the same point of aim, but for pistol bullets that really normally isn't a problem. And of course you want to run enough JHP through to ensure that it feeds well, etc....but that's normal no matter what you want to practice with.
camus:
I have gone through a couple cases of their 124gr Reman and just started one of their new. Not bad and they not are light loads. They ship quickly.
I did read they recalled some ammo a month or so back, deep seated primers or something. I haven't had any issues.
Edited from light loads to say not light loads.
Dan W:
--- Quote from: jthhapkido on January 31, 2014, 01:44:58 PM ---Holy crap. Ok, now I remember why I reload.
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I recall just few short years ago many were saying "why reload 9mm when you can buy it for the same price?" Nine cents a round sounds pretty damn good right about now
camus:
--- Quote from: Dan W on January 31, 2014, 07:35:10 PM ---I recall just few short years ago many were saying "why reload 9mm when you can buy it for the same price?" Nine cents a round sounds pretty damn good right about now
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It takes me 5 minutes to order a case, or multiple cases if the price is right. Can you reload 9mm that fast?
Dan W:
--- Quote ---It takes me 5 minutes to order a case, or multiple cases if the price is right. Can you reload 9mm that fast?
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It takes me 1 minute to access the 9mm rounds I have loaded in my spare time, and earning 18-20 dollars in savings per 100 rounds at current prices and availability is not bad when I can load, inspect and box 100 per hour.
I make less per hour after taxes and expenses at my day job, and I have a lot more fun handloading
Plus I get the added advantages of exactly the velocity I desire, the consistency and accuracy of equivalent high quality target ammunition versus the vagaries of shooting all the cheap stuff.
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