Blazer aluminum 9mm

[venenoindy]

I attended a handgun class at the Bone county Sherrif's range a few years back and one of the main instructors told us that Blazer aluminum causes malfunctions if you use it in a Glock, does anybody have experience such a thing?.

 

[JohnP82]

I have shot plenty of the blazer aluminum with no issues in many handguns including Glocks.
Haven't used it lately, probably 5 or 6 years, but I never had any issues when I did.

 

[Franc]

I had some failure to fire with Blazer Aluminum in my Glock. I was able to fire those rounds in a P226 without issues. I am guessing it might have something to do with hard primer.

 

[BigRed]

Where is Bone County?

 

[venenoindy]

Where is Bone County?

Their range is in Lebanon IN.

 

[COOPADUP]

CCI Blazer sometimes has light primer strikes due to poorly seated primers.

 

[SmileDocHill]

My m&p was a light striker, I've shot about 1k of the blazer aluminum and had a handful of ftf's in the 1k. I'm not using it as carry ammo and the malfunctions were so infrequent it wasn't annoying. For the cost savings, I would buy more. I've since replaced the striker assembly so it might not be an issue for me anymore.

 

[marvin02]

Not specific to Blazer and Glock, but aluminum cased ammo go to the 9:00 minute mark of this video.



Article:

Freedom Ordnance FX-9 Review | The Hunting Gear Guy

The Freedom Ordnance FX-9 is a semi-automatic, Pistol Caliber Carbine (PCC) made in the US. When sold for the US market, they’re frequently set up as a pistol or as a 16″ PCC, but for Canada they’re brought in with a Canada-specific 18.6″ barrel. As they’re not AR receiver compatible, these...

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The case was pulled in two leaving part of it in the chamber, the next round partially chambered and was detonated out of battery. That was with an FX9 PCC.

Edited to fix video link.

 

[Tactically Fat]

Non-brass cased ammo seems to cause more issues with strait blowback firearms, like most PCCs, than it does in most Browning-type action'd pistols.

I've had issues with non brass in higher-end pistols (Walther, Springfield EMP), but not in more run-of-the-mill guns like M&Ps and/or Glocks.

One caveat to that: Lacquor-coated steel-cased ammo has caused me grief in a hot & dirty firearm.

I can't remember any Aluminum-cased ammo-caused issues in any of my guns. I'd much rather run AL vs steel.

 

[DocIndy]

I recently ran 200 rounds of aluminum cased federal through my Wilson EDC x9 with no issues. Wish I had a few more cases of it. I like it for indoor ranges dojo don’t need to worry about picking up my brass.

 

[WebSnyper]

Ran plenty of it in Glocks and other striker fired guns without issues. I actually like using it as I don't reload, but I do tend to collect my brass for some reason, but don't feel the need to do so when shooting aluminum cased ammo. It's also usually a bit cheaper than brass cased.

 

[WebSnyper]

Not specific to Blazer and Glock, but aluminum cased ammo go to the 9:00 minute mark of this video.



Article:

Freedom Ordnance FX-9 Review | The Hunting Gear Guy

The Freedom Ordnance FX-9 is a semi-automatic, Pistol Caliber Carbine (PCC) made in the US. When sold for the US market, they’re frequently set up as a pistol or as a 16″ PCC, but for Canada they’re brought in with a Canada-specific 18.6″ barrel. As they’re not AR receiver compatible, these...

www.huntinggearguy.com

The case was pulled in two leaving part of it in the chamber, the next round partially chambered and was detonated out of battery. That was with an FX9 PCC.

Edited to fix video link.

As he states, Freedom Ordnance explicitly indicates not to use aluminum case ammo in their firearms:

FX-9 - Freedom Ordnance

Engineered to be reliable, affordable and feature familiar controls for any user.

freedomordnance.com

AMMUNITION
9mm 115 gr. FMJ recommended/select hollow points. We recommend starting with with the following ammunition: 115 gr. FMJ Tulammo®, 115 gr. FMJ MAGTECH®, 115 gr. FMJ Wolf®, 124 gr. JHP SIG SAUER® Elite Performance, PMC® Bronze, 115 gr. American Eagle®, 115 gr. Federal®, 115 gr. Remington®. The FX-9 upholds Xtreme reliability with a wide range of ammo including many hollow point designs for self defense and full metal jacket. We do not recommend the use of non jacketed ammunition as unprotected lead can cause fouling and buildups that plated and jacketed bullets do not. Do not use aluminum case ammunition in your FX-9!