American Quality Ammo

thirtydaZe · Feb 7, 2014

anyone hear of it? i jumped on 1500 rounds before receiving it and realizing it's all reloads. i've done some searches on it, all of it all seems bad, however all the reviews seem to be a few years old?

anyhow, i have 145 round ready to take to the range in a couple hours when i get off work, and after being in the M&P thread, and reading about a shield kaboom, quite frankly i'm a bit paranoid.

was planning on running this in my shield and my pro.

just wanted to see if anyone had recent opinion on the stuff, perhaps what i should watch out for.

DWalt · Feb 7, 2014

There are numerous commercial reloaders in business all over the country. They come and go. Generally, they have adequate quality controls, so their products should at least be safe to shoot.

thirtydaZe · Feb 7, 2014

I put all 145 through both the shield and the pro, and all was good.

I feel better about it now, and thanks for your post, also feel better again knowing they have, or at least should have some quality control.

PRISONGUARD1 · Aug 17, 2016

SD40/9VE

I bought an SD40VE in 'KALIFORNISTAN' in June of 2016. It shot new ammo relatively well, for a new pistol. The pistol did not accept 'LAX or PSA' re-loads at all, constant fail to feed and not even fitting into chamber. I bought some AQA to try, I had used AQA in the past, they work about as good as new ammo and accuracy is pretty good also. I bought a SIGMA 9mm barrel to use with same pistol, 9mm wasn't crazy about other re-loads and some factory new, it does use the AQA effortlessly. The SD is a cheap firearm to buy and not a 'GO-TO' gun for me, but it's kind of fun to shoot, 2000 shots fired to date, after 1st 600 rounds it showed great improvement. My Glock 17 & 22 will shoot everything the SD won't.
Overall I would use AQA re-loads or AQA new in my Smith without hesitation.

DWalt · Aug 17, 2016

Commercial reloaders usually need to have product liability insurance, and to do that, they must demonstrate that some basic QC procedures are in place before they can get it. Insurers don't like to pay out product liability claims.

The only bad thing that ever happened to me with reloads was some years back. I bought 500 9mm reloads at a gun show, and had a sizeable number of head blowouts in the first firings, fortunately no damage to the gun resulted. I ended up in pulling bullets and reloading cases and bullets with a different powder. I don't know what the original powder was - it wasn't ball, it wasn't flake, and had a silvery appearance. Weights were consistent, so the problem was likely that the powder charge was too high for whatever that powder was. I loaded some .44 Special rounds with that recovered powder under the assumption it was something fast like Bullseye, and it worked OK in those. In fact the load was a little too light if anything. But at least I didn't waste the powder.

chief38 · Aug 19, 2016

I would imagine that the reloaded ammo business is difficult to run efficiently, profitably, safely, and successfully when the large ammo Company's have been at the game for so long and can successfully market and compete. Any commercially reloaded ammo I have seen has only been around for a limited time before they succumb to cheapening their product in order to stay in business. Once the product is cheapened, the word spreads rapidly and their sales go into the toilet - the end. I WISH it were different so that shooters who don't reload could have an affordable alternative to Factory ammo but it seems it is a hard business to stay in if you really want to produce quality ammo.

Around these parts I am not aware of any reloading Company that has stayed around and who has produced good quality ammo for any length of time. Just ONE reason to "bight the bullet" and get into reloading.

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