I'm not saying that these discussions were specific to this particular forum, but they are scattered all over many gun forums. The first instance that I recall was quite laugh-worthy... Xtreme Bullets had been up and running successfully for a stretch and on their site, they were so proud to debut the beginnings of Freedom Munitions. If you've been on the site, they love to use very large, detailed, hi-res images, many of them quite zoomed in, in your face for a visual effect. Well, they showed a substantial pile of shiny, loaded 9mm ammo and it took very little scanning over the picture to find a loaded round that clearly had the primer backwards. Facebook fiends jumped all over them and their first response was simply "no worries, that was just a quick photo of pre-production test ammo" or some such total nonsense.
Later, I recall a fellow got himself a box of 9mm ammo where one of the rounds was a 9mm slug (115 or 124, I don't recall) that was loaded in to a piece of .380 brass, with what one can only casually assume must have been a powder charge appropriate for 9mm. As a handloader yourself, come to your own conclusions about that one.
Numerous failures, kabooms, returned boxes, returned cases... the stuff isn't high quality and that's since DAY ONE. Or, according to Freedom, since day-minus-1.
Of course, in any thread about this ammunition, you'll get posters who claim to have burned through thousands of rounds and piles of ammo without incident. Sure, I believe them, I have no reason to doubt them. You can also freebase cocaine on the weekends and live through it, many do, many have, many will. This doesn't make it a good plan and people are still going to call in dead for work Monday due to recreational drug use on the weekends, regardless of how many folks have claimed to have done it with no ill effect.
I have never purchased nor shot any of their stuff. I've bought more Xtreme bullets than many folks would comprehend. It's my opinion that whether anyone ever realizes or cares to admit it, by and large, gun owning American shooters will be better off when this junk has fallen off the face of the Earth.
If you bought Freedom Munitions and it was fantastic for you, excellent. That doesn't make this junk good. That means you weren't one of the (MANY) unfortunate that had a lousy experience with a known, junk product. You won round one of Russian Roulette. I'd suggest you don't play round two, but whatever.
