Deputy
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Is Hotshot Ammo any good? It's made in Romania. Haven't been able to find any info about it. Price is good and it's available in 9MM.
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Is Hotshot Ammo any good? It's made in Romania. Haven't been able to find any info about it. Price is good and it's available in 9MM.
Erich
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I've read that some of their stuff is made in the US by A-MERC - naturally, I'd avoid that. I've read that the foreign stuff is dirty.
I've never used it myself, though.
I've never used it myself, though.
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Guest
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I haven't heard anything Good about the stuff. It seems to be dirty and may even be "corrosive". At best, it seems to require same day cleaning. There is a limit to 'cheap' and I'd say this stuff might just be it.
OP
Deputy
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Well I just ordered 1000 rounds of it. I'll report back on it's quality. I doubt it's corrosive since it's current production. Not really a worry, I use Hoppe's #9 to clean with and it kills any corrosive materials.
animalmother
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Sounds like low grade ammo. I don't fool around with the el cheapo stuff.
OP
Deputy
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I did manage to also get 1000 rounds of Federal 115 grain FMJ. In this day and age, you take what you can get when you can get it. If someone has a source for plentiful inexpensive high quality ammo, I'd be glad to hear about it. I'd rather fool around cleaning ammo, than not be able to shoot at all.
RON in PA
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My experience with HotShot is only with ammo for the 7.62 Nagant revolver. Excellent ammo, no complaints and seems better than Fiocchi in this rather exotic caliber. The ammo is Yugoslavian (Serbian).
My standard 9x19 range ammo is from www.mastercast.net. I've shot around 1200 rounds of it (plus about 6,000 of their .38sp SWC/WC) with no problems. Mastercast is a topnotch reloading service. Prompt, reliable and inexpensive. Their ammo is especially inexpensive if you send them your spent cases (same number and type) in exchange. I send them a thousand cases by USPS Priority Mail for nine bucks and change. Any other way I know of costs more than twenty.
Cordially, Jack
Cordially, Jack
Pioneer461
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When you buy cheap ammo, that is what you get. Cheap ammo.
shovelwrench
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Think about for a minute
OP
Deputy
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Well define "cheap". CCI Blazer could easily fit in the "cheap" catagory, if you are defining it as inexpensive. As long as the ammo goes "bang" with every shot and hits what I aim for, that's just more ammo I get to practice with compared to the expensive stuff. I dunno....I don't go running up and down the firing line showing everyone my boxes of high-priced ammo. I'm not out to impress anyone.
I don't give two squirts if the gun gets funky with powder. I have plenty of Hoppe's #9 and it comes right off. And if the expensive ammo isn't available, at least I am still getting range time while the elitists who only use the expensive stuff are pissing and moaning about ammo hoarders and how unfair life is.
Dep
I don't give two squirts if the gun gets funky with powder. I have plenty of Hoppe's #9 and it comes right off. And if the expensive ammo isn't available, at least I am still getting range time while the elitists who only use the expensive stuff are pissing and moaning about ammo hoarders and how unfair life is.
Dep
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Deputy
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Well said John!
OP
Deputy
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Reporting back (finally) on the Hotshot 9MM ammo. Fired 6 boxes (300 rounds) of it so far through SIG and Glock handguns. No malfunctions whatsoever and good accuracy. I'm kinda amused at the comments about "cheap ammo". Especially since 9MM FMJ has been almost non-existent since Obama was elected. So if ammo is considered as "cheap", and the high-priced premium ammo isn't available, do people just sit on their butts and dream about the "good old days" of readily available ammo at reasonable prices? If I could find another 1000 rounds of Romanian Hotshot ammo in 9mm I'd scarf it up in a heartbeat. It burned nice and clean and both the primer and rim of the cartridge case were sealed against contamination by moisture.
Spotteddog
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What Deputy and John BOTH said!
That's what I meant earlier and elsewhere about being grateful you have something to get the gun dirty WITH!
That's what I meant earlier and elsewhere about being grateful you have something to get the gun dirty WITH!
Forester
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I'm glad it worked out for you Deputy. There is nothing wrong with cheap ammo as long as you are not expecting match ammo.
I only have experience with Hotshot ammo in .303 Brit. It shot fine with workable accuracy but the trouble came when I tried to reload it. It was impossible to decap that stuff. And no, I don't believe it was berdan primed as a few primers did pop out but mostly, the decapping pin would back out of the top of the die. I couldn't tighten it down enough.
I only have experience with Hotshot ammo in .303 Brit. It shot fine with workable accuracy but the trouble came when I tried to reload it. It was impossible to decap that stuff. And no, I don't believe it was berdan primed as a few primers did pop out but mostly, the decapping pin would back out of the top of the die. I couldn't tighten it down enough.
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