MFS 38 special ammo warning

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My brother purchased 500 rounds of 38 special MFS ammo awhile back from Ammotogo.com

I don't remember the bullet weight, but it is a FMJ round. He was getting at least on round like those pictured below out of every cylinder. Often more.

He is shooting this ammo out of a S&W model 681 I foolishly sold him some time back (didn't know how difficult it would be to find another one). He doesn't think shooting this ammo will hurt his weapon. He also thinks its too late to try and send it back. I don't know if these splits will hurt his pistol or not, but I will not shoot it.

The bummer part is I usually get his brass. Just thought I'd pass this along if anyone was considering purchase of this ammo.
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Assuming that the one out of each cylinder is not from the same chamber, it would seem to be a manufacturing defect OR they are remanufactured and are at the end of their usable life. It won't hurt the gun but you are out of luck on reloading the brass. All of us reloaders have had some split like that with no ill effects.

Now, if these are coming from the same chamber you have a problem.
 
This happens regardless of the weapon they are fired from, I shot a couple of cylinders through my Model 19 before I knew they were splitting and the same thing happened.

It is supposedly virgin ammo, and I don't know who/where MFS ammo is from.

Glad to hear it woln't damage his pistol.
 
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I had a bunch of their steel case AK ammo. It was mildly corrosive like most of the East European stuff. I'm pretty sure MFS is out of Hungary.

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I purchased some MFS 124 grain FMJ 9MM form Cabelas, and yes it is from Hungary.
MFS brass is worthless. I don't reload 9MM, but I have examined fired cases from my Sig P-6 and Kahr K-9. Many had split case mouths. The ammo is pretty smokey too. I'll shoot what I have and NOT purchase any more.
 
Is it just the photo or are the primers popped out of the seat? Looks like a good dimple in the primers. If so this could be an indicator of somthing.
 
I disagree that their brass is worthless. I found some of their Boxer primed brass 7.62x39 cases at the range and this is what I started with when I ventured into reloading this cartridge. I reloaded them at least a dozen times before finally one of the necks split. The ones that I still have are so heavily scarred, dented and beat up that you'd think there's no way they'll ever chamber, fire, extract or eject, but they do and without fail. They sure made this brass right, and Kalashnikov knew what he was doing when he designed this weapon system.

Dave Sinko
 
I'm not sure this is relevant to this situation, but picked up couple of boxes of MFS-Hungary from Cabelas a month back in Browning Short for my PPK. I experienced jams on the range during the 1st box. Changed ammo and it stopped. I left the remainder and new box for the range master for disposal. I told him what happen but he said someone might have some use for it...
 
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The MFA brand in 45 auto is just as bad. Case heads are soft and primers when seated have no feel to them. When we used to sort brass the MFS stuff ususally made it to the scrap bucket. Frank
 
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