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You asked about Magtech 9mm; they are good.
Like the list of known online sellers that were good, here are some ammo brands that make "good" 9mm:
- Magtech
- Sellier & Bellot (S&B)
- Fiocchi
- Winchester
- PPU (Prvi Partizan)
- PMC
- Geco
- American Eagle
- Federal
- Aguila
- Blazer (Blazer Brass, regular Blazer is aluminum cased)
- Herter's (this is the 'store brand' for Cabelas and Bass Pro, I think they are currently actually made by Winchester. Used to be S&B)
- Monarch- store brand for Academy, the brass cased is actually PPU
I would include Remington, but I don't know what's happening now with the company.
I say "good", a lot of people like some and dislike others, but these are top-tier brass-cased ammo makers.
I didn't list Maxxtech, you might run across that, I think it was generally avoided and considered sub-par. Same thing for Hot Shot, and if I remember correctly, Independence.
*at this point it's "get what you can find", but people weren't buying those brands if they had any of the choices above.
Non-brass cased ammo: there is steel and aluminum.
Aluminum seems to run fine for range use, tends to be practice loads. Never had any problem with them, the only gripes are that you can't reload the cases.
Blazer, Federal, some others. They tend to be cheaper than brass cases.
Steel cased- this has been a topic for a lot of back-and-forth. It usually tends to be the cheapest ammo. In normal times, it's usually considered "junk". Again no reloading.
There are internet myths about it, but the fact is, it's not HARDENED steel, and won't hurt a well-made pistol.
It's usually Russian made, but Winchester makes a line too.
The powder smells different, and tends to be dirtier, and it's not for super-duper precision target shooting... but it goes bang in my experience, and at 7-15 yds hits what you are aiming at. If you miss bad, it's you, not the ammo (99% of the time).
- Tula
- Wolf
- Brown Bear, Silver Bear, any other color Bear...
Again, in normal times, most of us wouldn't put such "junk" in our guns. Times ain't normal, and I've put a few boxes through some of mine, and no harm done.
