Armscore, you have a real problem

[Buford57]

I had the same problems others have described with their .22LR ammo during the Obama drought. I contacted them. They sent a shipping label to return the ammo and refunded my money. Might be worth a try.

 

[Racer X]

I also had problems with their .22 LR during the scare shortage about 12-15 years ago (won't mention who was in office to avoid a DQ). Bulged cases, FTE in everything from Semi auto to revolver to bolt action, wildly different report from the same box. I called them gave the lot number and they told me they were sending a shipping label and to send the remaining ammo (2 bricks less about 3 boxes) and the purchase receipt (which I had, since it was an online purchase). They gave me the choice of refund or replacement (took the former - I care too much about my guns to try again). Very nice people, crummy ammo. After that I never tried their CF offerings.

Golden Bullets?

 

[yeti]

Cheaper Than Dirt has been dead to me for many years.
I appreciate the heads up on the Armscor ammo issue, OP.

This is why I primarily roll my own.

 

[GypsmJim]

Shooters saving a few pennies on a box of ammo. Why not buy American?

I agree 100%. I won't buy foreign ammo at any cost.

However, there is American ammo that is often **** as well. If someone gave me anything that said Remington on the box I would give it to someone else.

 

[BE Mike]

where in Montana? I live in Montana and am not aware any production of their ammo.
Randy

Stevensville; also in Utah and Nevada. I'd have to be mighty hard up to shoot Armscor guns or ammo.

 

[Skeet 028]

I really never had much trouble with Remington... I shot tens of 1000s of rounds of their ammo A batch of 22s were not great...bit Winchester sucks these days. ...esp since they did away with the original style AA ammo. Still have 30 or so cases of Rem shotshells and a few 1000 centerfire of all cals. but very little is currently made ammo

 

[.38SuperMan]

I had pretty good luck with Armscor 22LR until getting into a couple of new bricks. I’ve tried them in a Ruger Ranger, Colt King Cobra 22, model 63 Smith and model 34 Smith, several other handguns and a couple of different rifles and get on average 1/3 duds. Roughly 2 in every cylinder of 6 shots will fail.

When I get a failure I take it out and rotate it and put it in a different chamber to see if it will fire and 99% of the time the fail to fire again. I even take them and try in another gun and never get them to fire.

I contacted Armscor and finally received a complaint form after nearly 2 weeks. I’m going to fill it out and return it and see what happens. I have two more full bricks and would like to get my money back. I’d suggest you contact them also.

 

[bobsguns]

This is a follow up to my "squib load" post from a week ago. Went to the range today and took a new box of Armscore 158 gr. FMJ 38 special to shoot in my 686's.

There's no "e" in Armscor.

Your ammo is listed as being made in the US. Most of their other pistol ammo is made in the Philippines. Dunno what that would mean as far as quality of production though.

Could be a bad lot made, could be bad primers, could be a lot of things. Like a lot of mfgrs, they probably have a hard time getting good help.

Allow me to suggest GA Arms for your practice ammo. They're priced well & are high quality.

My .o2

 

[ariandshan]

Back around 2016 or so I bought a case (5000) of Armscore 22 LR. I haven't shot any of it so far, might take years before I get to it. I 've got over (9000) other 22's Winchester, Remington and so on. I'm using a Chiappa M1-22 Semi Auto Rifle and a S&W M-17.
I hope I won't have any problems but you never know.

Rick

 

[Skeet 028]

I have a few bricks of Armscor made after the Covid thing. I have shot a brick or two and no real problems to speak of....Some American made 22s had problems at that time too.

 

[FivePews]

where in Montana? I live in Montana and am not aware any production of their ammo.
Randy

They have a retail space in Stevensville (south of Missoula) and my understanding is that there a a factory or two nearby. Nobody really knows what the arrangement is around here. They bought a similar, well-known local ammo company and merged...or that company bought them?

In any case, I would often buy .38 & 9mm ammo in bulk at the Stevi office because there was no shipping charge. It was cheap, reliable, and plentiful. Thanks to them I was able to keep shooting all the way through COVID.

But, in January 2023, I picked up my first, brand-new M&P 340 and was benching it with some Armscore .38 to find out where it was hitting at 25 feet. Then a "soft" feeling shot.

Thank the good lord I happened to check the pistol out. The bullet didn't quite exit the barrel. Had to head home. Armscore taught me to always take more than one pistol to the range and to keep carry pistols and range pistols separate. When I called to tell them their answer was, "Thanks for letting us know. Have a good day".

I never spent another dollar there, and in fact, I started to pick up Dillon equipment right after. I have a nice picture of that squib in a brand-new gun and will post it after my paid account is fixed up. After that I heard that the company changed ownership (yet again) in some way during 2022. The problems began after.

Side note: Being my first squib (and my first new revolver), I didn't know to remove the crane/cylinder before beating it out with a dowel. I'll post a picture of the love marks that process left on the frame of my new gun too. Lesson learned.

 

[shovelhead]

Had a customer at our range that brought in some Armscor .22. He gave up on the first box and bought some of our ammunition. As a result he gave me two and a half boxes of it.

All 100+ went through my Glock 44 without a hiccup. Personal opinion was that his gun was the problem.

 

[giddydog]

I had a brick of their 22LR. Ove a 20% failure rate. Even after trying in multiple guns.

 

[raljr1]

We had several failures to fire from a box of Armscorp 380 ammo in three different pistols.

Robert

 

[max503]

Armscor is the only 38 ammo in stock at my LGS.

Sure glad I reload.

 

[GF]

Same here, their 22 lr ammo was by far the worst rimfire I've ever used. +3" groups from a Winchester 52 and CZ bolts = no thanks for me. Pretty dirty as I recall too.

Too bad, as they are otherwise a pretty good gun company.

The rimfire rounds are inconsistent at best.
You can hear the difference when fired, some louder than others.
I haven't had a squib load with Armscore but I only have rimfire, no centerfire ammo.