Fiocchi - Good or Bad?

[DWalt]

Are the c's in the name pronounced hard or soft?

I have always heard it was pronounced as fee-o-kee.

 

[rck281]

Most Fiocchi of America ammo is loaded in Ozark, MO.

 

[TX-Dennis]

Fee-Okie is, I believe the proper pronunciation. I have heard a few call it Fee-Otchy. At any rate, it's good ammo. I've shot a bunch of it.

 

[Buford57]

I've used and liked their .22 Mag and .32 S&W Long ammo.

 

[SGT ROCK 11B]

My LGS always have Black Friday Deals on Fiocchi 9mm and 38 Special.

In 38 Special they give you two copper plated options. 130 grain and 158 grain. Both are accurate.

 

[Chuck Edwards]

I've shot a couple of cases' worth of their 9x19, and it worked well. I have some of their small pistol primers and have found they work fine in unmodified revolvers but have occasional failures to fire in guns with a trigger job.

 

[stansdds]

My biggest experience with Fiocchi was with their 9x19mm 115 grain JHP load. It went "bang" reliably, was accurate, and although not +P, was definitely hotter than most U.S. made 115 grain loads. It ran beautifully through my Tanfoglio TZ-75 Series 88, which often failed to fully eject U.S. made 115 grain loads.

 

[CH4]

I haven’t had any problems with it or do I know anyone who has.

 

[Dvus]

It's always been a winner for me.

 

[Oldsalt66]

I've fired many of thousands of rounds of their 9mm and buy it whenever it's available.

The gilding metal jacket is of a lower brass but higher tin content than you normally see, which makes some of their FMJ bullets a bit harder, and gives them a golden color, but I've run thousands of rounds of it through my German SIG Mastershop X Pistols and have encountered no problems with extra barrel wear.

It's been great range ammo, reliable as well as accurate.

 

[smoothshooter]

I've used and liked their .22 Mag and .32 S&W Long ammo.

I think the Fiocchi-labeled .22 Magnum ammo is actually made by CCI.
Rimfire ammo is by far the most difficult ammo to load.
The machinery is EXTREMELY complex and sensitive to even the tiniest variations of how it is operated. Rimfire machinery requires constant monitoring, tweaking, and cleaning.
That is why relatively few ammo makers even attempt to get into the rimfire business.

 

[JH1951]

Fiocchi brand has always been well respected within my circle of shooting friends. Many, including myself, would choose it first. S&B runs a close second.

 

[cmansguns]

I buy Fiocchi whenever I see it....good stuff

I specifically look for Fiocchi when I am out and about. Specifically 3 calibers in my stash are exclusively Fiocchi. Always reliable, no case extraction issues ever, solid ignition and accuracy for me.

Cannot shoot Lead Round Nose, or Lead Flat Nose at the one remaining indoor range so FMJ or Semi Jacketed are the only ammo allowed.

I use Fiocchi exclusively in my Model 10 No dash, Model 10-6, Model 31-1 (32 Long) and 32 Hand Ejector (32 Long) and in my Model 29-2 (44 Special).

The box labels as follows: 38 Special, (38A), 130 gr. FMJ @ 810 fps; 32 S&W Long, 97 gr. FMJ @ 949 fps; 44 Special, 200 gr. SJHP @ 900 fps.

Never had a performance issue and the only issue is sometimes a lack of stock in LGS around here.

 

[.455_Hunter]

The Italian-made Fiocchi is an outstanding product!

 

[Skeet 028]

When Alcan was in business they loadedall the Alcan ammo. S&W and Fiocchi bought out Alcan when they went belly up. They opened a plant hee in the US and made S&W ammo(which was good stuff for the most part)....until S&W realized they could not make money in the tightly controlled American ammo business. When the prices of American ammo started to rize Fiocchi got a small portion of the American ammo market with cheaper prices and have steadily expanded the business over the years.Have used 1000s of rounds of their ammo and a couple hundred 1000 of their primers...both shotshell and metallic. For the old shotgun loaders...Alcan 220 Maxfires were the Fiocchi 616 still being sold today

 

[Nevada Ed]

They also make quality shotgun shells, if you do that kind of shooting.
They will usually match the price of win & Fed 12 Ga. prices and I like them a LOT more
over the cheaper Estates that I used back in the day, for practice.

I have yet to try any of their USA ammo, with my stock piles of metalic ammo.

 

[Breakaway500]

Good. OK..very good.

 

[desi2358]

The "c"s are pronounced hard because it is written in Italian.
Personally I am not a fan of Fiocchi cartridges. The factory is in Lecco in Italy, not far from where I live and I buy them because they are cheap but every time I ask myself why I bought them...
As for cheap cartridges I prefer Selier&Belot both because they are more accurate and consistent, and because they are more reliable. I recently used some 44 mag Fiocchi cartridges and I noticed that they were too loaded. The primers were completely mashed and the recoil was absurd. I then opened another box purchased a couple of years earlier and it didn't even seem to be the same cartridge. Half the recoil and the primers had no signs of overpressure.

I found your experience interesting. I have always had excellent results with Fiocchi ammunition and prefer it to S&B. Fiocchi handgun ammo has given me good accuracy and reliability. S&B was okay but never seemed as accurate in my guns.

Another factor was reloadability as I reload almost everything I shoot and Fiocchi brass seems far better than S&B. Primer pockets on S&B seem to be rather undersized, cases seem very thin and prone to splits after no more than a couple loadings. S&B .303 British ammo seems particularly bad in this respect. Cases stretch badly on first firing and I will not even try to reload them.

Reloading may not be a factor in Italy but it's an issue with me here. As far as European made ammo I actually prefer PPU as their brass has given excellent results for me with Fiocchi as a second choice. Fiocchi does produce some of their ammo in the US currently but I don't know if the brass they use here is US made or imported. I have used a good amount of Italian made Fiocchi ammo over the years and have always been happy with it.

 

[DWalt]

About all I can say is that I used lots of Fiocchi shotshells when I shot trap and skeet, without issues. In fact, Fiocchi plastic cases were my preference for reloading. They just never wore out. Very tough.

 

[chief38]

I too have shot a fair amount of Fiocchi ammo over the years - but only in two calibers. I have not had any FTF, however it's hard not to take notice of the higher pressures it is loaded to. Their regular .38 Special is about equal to the American +P and their 38 Super is also a bit hotter than Remington's, Winchester's and Federal's version.

Other than what I mentioned above, it shoots fine and seems reliable. I would not use it on any regular basis as it has to be a bit harder on the guns. I don't think paper targets require hot ammo. Most all of my target shooting is done with my own reloaded ammo.