Hello, has anyone had any experience with Geco ammo, just got 500 rounds from Weapons World. Got tired of waiting and this came up at a reasonable price. Will let you all know how it works for me after I get it and try it.

The older GECO ammo was mfg in Sweden, And was a very hot ammo used by most of Euorps lawenforcment. When U get yours get a magnet and check it. The Older ammo was brass coated steel core.
The newer rounds are kinda Wimpey. I have both in house now. We use the newer rounds when the comes down for a shooting weekend. Good Luck I hope you get the better ammo. My older and better ammo is 10 to 12 years old.

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Geco 9mm ammo was not/is not made in Sweden. Norma brand ammo is from Sweden. Geco brand name was purchased by RUAG Ammotec of Switzerland (along with DAG of Germany, RWS of Germany and MFS of Hungary). None of these brands of imported 9mm ammunition have or use anything close to a steel core. The bullets use a mild gilding metal clad steel jacket over a standard lead core. If Geco or any other brand of imported 9mm ammo had anything other than a standard lead core, BATFE would never have allowed it in this country for commercial sales.

Quite correct, steel core handgun ammo cannot be imported. The use of mild steel jackets with lead cores is fine and has been common for years. Even many American makers have used them at times. Also, even though GECO was a German brand name, since RUAG bought them out ammo with that label could be made in several different countries. I have 9mm with the GECO label that was loaded in Switzerland and saw some at a show recently that was loaded in Hungary.

I noticed in my ballistics testing of my very first reloads the jacketed bullets can be misleading to the normal eye. The copper coated thin steel jacket will allow a magnet to still stick to it but not as hard as the steel core bullets. Some may think it's a steel core.

I've used their 124 gr. 9mm ammo and found it to be exceptionally accurate and clean shooting. I do recall it having mild steel jacketed lead core bullets however, so you might want to keep that in mind if you do your shooting at a range that prohibits them. I'm not sure if this carries over to their other loadings.

I'll also hazard a guess that it's loaded to CIP specs as opposed to SAMMI specs.

I used GECO back when I lived in Germany. Would say it was RWS version of Winchester white box, it was a more affordable ammo for the sport shooter. I used tons of their blue box 124gr 9mm Para in my SIG 210-4. It was very accurate, at 25mtr., close to the original Swiss military ammo when used on the 50mtr ranges in Switzerland. Was not even bad when I had a chance to use the range in Baumholder at 200mtr metal targets, could hear when it hit home. There was also a .45acp version I used in my HK USP. I have seen some in the past at Walmart, and a LGS. The brass was good for reloading, and have reloaded it many times.

Geco is good ammo - or at least it used to be. I have not used it in a few years.

I fired some in the 1960's. No issues. Fed fine in Browning Hi-Power pistols.

"Geco" abb. Gustav Genschow, the original maker. I thought that somone should menton that. It was German, not Swedish.

Thanks for everyone's comments, did a follow-up post after getting to the range a couple days ago. Seems to be a difference of opinion where it's made.