Staying away from Federal Ammo for awhile

[MarcSpaz]

Well, I don't know home many of you use Federal pistol ammo, but I'm going to stay away from it for a few months. I had 3 fail to feed issues with both federal 9mm range ammo and federal JHP defense ammo in 2 pistols. All ammo was purchased recently.

I had 1 9mm fail to feed that hard jammed my Glock 17 with the range ammo. Needed a rubber mallet to bust the slide loose.

Also had a failure to feed with the range ammo in the MPX, which required a slide hammer to get the BCG to unjam. That round came out of a different box than the jam in my G17.

Also had a federal defense JHP jam in the MPX, which also required a slide hammer to get loose.

All 3 boxes came from the same store on the same day. Might be time to switch to Blazer for a few months.

[Swampman]

I like Blazer ammo. Never had a problem with it.

[Snakester]

I too like Blazer ammo.....9 and .40 are my favorite flavor's . Can't ever remember any issue's. I shoot a lot of Federal too...brass and aluminum cased. Very rare to have a problem , but the Federal I am shooting now was purchased in '08 or '09 . I still buy Federal ammo because I see plenty on the shelves , of course that could change at anytime !!!

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[MarcSpaz]

I have both Gander Mountain and Dick's Sporting Goods by my house. They both have a pretty flush stock of the Blazer. I bought the federal because I prefer to give my LGS the business. Especially since its a great little spot. He hardly ever has Blazer... so I guess I am going to head to Gander Mountain on Friday.

[FiremanBob]

Blazer 115 gr. is just about the lightest factory 9mm load I know of. It isn't unusual for it to cause failures to feed and/or stovepipes because it sometimes doesn't have enough juice to cycle the slide all the way.

[MarcSpaz]

Really... I don't recall having problems with it in the past, which is why I mentioned switching back to it from federal. The only reason I stopped buying it is because my LGS hasn't stocked it in awhile.

Maybe I'll try a few boxes before I stock up. Make sure they cycle in my stuff okay. The 3 failures I had occurred within 200 rounds of each other, which is too frequent for my liking.

[Reverenddel]

Have you contacted Federal with the lot numbers? Because it could be on recall.

[MarcSpaz]

Nope. Didn't even grab the numbers. Just tossed the boxes at the range. I wasn't even thinking about the possibility of a recall. Especially since one was a jhp and the other 2 were fmj.

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