Federal Ammo

[jgreiner]

Okay, yesterday I dropped by the range while my son was driving (drivers ed) and thought I would shoot a quick box of 50. I picked up some CHEAP Federal Ammo.....and off I went.

by the 3rd round fired....I could no longer see the target.....it was like shooting a an old black powder muzzleloader....

Now, this range has a state of the art vent system....I have shot there many times, and I have NEVER seen smoke like this.

I went home and cleaned my gun, and I could believe the amount of SOOT that it had. The magazine was FILLED.

I am going back to my Winchester Ammo........it's cheap...AND it fires clean....

 

[SEIndSAM]

Okay, yesterday I dropped by the range while my son was driving (drivers ed) and thought I would shoot a quick box of 50. I picked up some CHEAP Federal Ammo.....and off I went.

by the 3rd round fired....I could no longer see the target.....it was like shooting a an old black powder muzzleloader....

Now, this range has a state of the art vent system....I have shot there many times, and I have NEVER seen smoke like this.

I went home and cleaned my gun, and I could believe the amount of SOOT that it had. The magazine was FILLED.

I am going back to my Winchester Ammo........it's cheap...AND it fires clean....

I use the cheap Federal 9mm from Wally World all of the time and have never noticed more smoke from it? I have seen a few Tula rounds that I thought was smokey, but never Federal.

 

[IndyPrepper]

Same - Cheap Fed from Walmart never had any problem like you describe.

 

[thumperdogg]

I use federal all the time, no soot or smoke. I have experienced this with WWB and refuse to use it ever again!!

 

[Rocket57]

Federal 9mm and .45 from Wally World...use it all the time. I thought it burned pretty clean.

 

[Fordtough25]

Same here, Federal is good to go! WWB and UMC not so much.

 

[Mr. Neal]

I also use federal alot when I dont feel like reloadin or just need new brass and the smoke doesnt seem near as bad as you described.. When I do reload I usually use bullseye and you wanna talk out some black dirty smoke...Haha.

 

[Mr. Neal]

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