Holy cow! Where has this ammo been all my life?

I just picked up a box of 600 115gr. 9x19 FMJ Remington range ammunition from LAX Ammo in Inglewood at an incredible $155 before taxes (I've had to pay up to $25 for 50 rd. box of Fiocchi) and after exhausting this stuff I never heard of before, I loaded up with the Remmingtons and OMG, I fell in love...

Shots on target? No problem. *Crazy* tight groupings (had five go in through the same hole); muzzle flash? What muzzle flash? Just a spark flying and some smoke. Tight feel on the recoil. No hands getting showered with dark gray particles or funny smells. Stuff burns so clean, I could hardly believe it. At this point, I'll never shoot anything else. I will go anywhere I have to to stick to this stuff. It's the best.

I guess after 200 years, you get good at making things.

I'm very curious to know how their S&W .40 180gr. range ammunition fires. I'm going to look for some L40SW4 if I can find it, since I prefer the 165gr. weight. I hope I'm as impressed with it as I was their 9mm cartridges.

Check out sgammo.com for good buys on 9mm ammo with low shipping
charges. They have better deals than that and some better ammo as
well. I have bought a fair amount of basic 115 gr FMJ 9mm over the
last several years and believe me there is better ammo out there than
Rem 115 gr FMJ.

What this guy said.

It's not uncommon to find brass cased 9mm online for $0.17-18 a round shipped. $0.21 a round is what you paid, which isn't bad but not great either.

Even my local dealers have 9mm for $0.20-22 a round, so paying $25 for 50 is complete insanity. I pay less than that for my Federal HSTs

Please note where the gentleman lives..............

Any ammo at any price is good !!

They pass new laws each WEEK to mess with sportsmen ..........
Even going fishing is getting unreal.

I would love to buy my ammo online, but the city of Los Angeles requires you to buy them in store. So not only do I have to pay absurd prices, I also have to go REALLY far, too.

I am a handloader and I have had spotty luck with Remington's brass case life. I got lots of length-wise splits in .44 Special, .45 Colt and .41 Magnum, even on the first shot. Re-use of brass is a big deal to me, so I usually buy Winchester or Federal factory ammo. Unless the cartridge is something that was only loaded by R-P, like .22 Jet, .45 Auto Rim or .350 Rem Mag. Luckily, others load those 3 now but I likely have enough R-P brass in those 3 chamberings to last me the rest of my life.

Nation-wide price comparisons are getting difficult with states like California enacting useless regulations. Ammo shipping can be expensive and many times the packaging isn't up to the task. The last .45 Auto I bought was left on my front porch by FedEx ground, torn open, and 6 of the 100-round boxes were gone. Stolen, in transit, I figure, as the individual boxes that remained were all intact and the hole torn in the outer carton was just big enough to pull an individual box out. The seller is arguing with FedEx, who says my neighbors must have stolen it, in the 20 minutes it sat on the porch, opening it and taking just some of it, instead of carrying away the whole box. Sure.

REALLY! Even in ammunition kept in containers that aren't exposed to the elements? Moisture and other corrosive factors?

For me, Remington brass lasts as long as any other. Which in my case is a very long time.

I've got thousands of Remington brass cases in .45acp, .38Spl., .357Mag, .44Spl., .44Mag.,and 9mm that I've reloaded dozens of times over the last 28 years. Never have had a single major case split other than normal occasional minor splits at the case mouth. No different than Win., Fed., Speer, or a host of foreign brands like S&B and Fiocchi and CBC, etc. All good.

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