Ammo I REFUSE to Buy 

Ammo Inc is made in Wisconsin. I'm not saying it's good, but they're pretty proud of that fact. In fact, I can't find anywhere that says any of their ammo is made in Turkey

As the saying goes. "Don't let your enemy make or supply your ammo".

I'm old and lives in the middle east, long time ago I used to shoot winchester ammo nicely but lately we're receiving bad made in usa winchester ammo. All their ammo calibers now are garbage. I really feel sorry and sad for the good old ammo of this ancient company.

It pains me to say this but stay away from Winchester ammunition.

As someone who used to work at a range that sold exclusively Remington ammo, Remington has dog water quality control on their ammo

Federal owns Remington ammo now. The quality has gone back up. It was realy bad during the covid rush.

The Winchester Forged is so unbelievably bad, I had a friend who bought a few boxes just because it was in stock. Both of us had ran steel of a number of brands through a number of platforms, but my god, that trash did not run through anything well. A fifty round box of bitchchester 9mm gave me more problems than surplus ammo, tula, and wolf in any caliber combined. As far as ammo inc, I wish I had recorded this but, I had 4 of the 200rnd 9mm cases- two factory new and two reprocessed same lot numbers, all 115gr. Each was at least 9 oz different in weight than their respective counterparts (I used a separate container to be sure that the deviation had nothing to do with the case).

Was at a gun shop just today looking for .380 for my newly acquired Beretta M1934… now it’s a bit more clear why there was only 1 box of Blazer and an absolute ton of Ammo Inc.

Ammo is one of those subjects where I have encountered very mixed results. A brand I would normally trust like Winchester or Remington has proved a downfall time and time again for my rifles and pistols alike. I have had Remington CoreLokt fail in my 7MM Mauser because it was so underpressure. Winchester ammo that would fail to extract every other round in a bolt action because the brass swelled too much in the chamber. At the same time, brands I wouldn't trust normally turned out fairly decent. Armscor ammo and Wolf Brand Match 22 are extremely accurate planting rounds into one jagged hole. Ammo Inc is very hit or miss, but if I am out of 44 ammo for my Redhawk, I will shoot it because if Elmer Keith couldn't destroy a Red or Blackhawk, Ammo Inc sure won't. Of course, I won't expect decent results, but at least I'd have brass for reloading. Ammo is just such a game of craps, it is a wonder I didn't start handloading much sooner

Many years ago, my cousin ran a gun shop and I bought a mini14 ranch and bought a box of factory reloads, I think was American Eagle (?). After collecting the spent brass, all 50 rounds had cracked necks and a inverted dent as well. Used Remington core lokt and only had the dent and no cracks.

I had issues with TulAmmo BrassMAXX in 9mm, with damaged cases that prevent proper feeding (it looks like the bullet damaged the case mouth when it was pressed in).

Ammo Inc scared me recently with my glock 21. A few of the cases came out super bulged due to the powder charges varying between rounds. Needless to say I'll be switching brands.

I've had good luck with pmc.ammo..

Winchester white box also sucks overpressure, blown primers, cracked casings, and throwing 380 in 9mm nato box

I bought one of thoes surplus lake city/winchester 5.56 m193 420rnd on stripper clips cans like a month before covid started and it was pretty reliable, but cant say about now, have had great luck with the Korean PMC X-tac m855 and m193 so far out of 500 rounds or so

I learned my lesson about gun show reloads back in the 1980s. My opinion in the decades since has been that my guns are too valuable to me to risk damaging them by shooting cheap or questionable ammo.

I had a CZ 85(an update of the CZ75) that would eat and fire all brass, steel casings except 1 or 2 duds of UMC, but that was about 30 years ago. The one it did not like was what i think or wanted to say or suspect casings that seemed made of aluminum or very cheap, thin, or weak metal which was a "chrome" or "silver" look to it but was crunched and never fired, issue clearing the chamber. I don't recall who made it, but will never try anything similar again. I've bought reloaded .308, 7.62 NATO, .30-06 from gun shows, shops, local individuals and usually seems that the best is closer to you and few troubles, but there are more shooters and reloaders around here.

John.. When you mentioned Aguila 22 super extra , well let me add... I bought a dozen boxes of Aguila about a year ago. I thought the name was corny, but I bought it because it was the last day of a local gun show, and the guy wanted it gone. It was a deal. I ran it in my Ruger 10-22 and was totally surprised how close the groups were! Also ,it always cycled the bolt. So when I researched it , I discovered it was a very high quality ammo. I just picked up another 1000 rounds. The name is silly; super extra; but it really runs great and cycles every time! Nice to see that you agree.

All my Lake city ammunition is when Federal ran it have never had a problem with it at all.

Winchester .22lr has always been iffy, but the center fire I’ve used over the years has seemed to work fine. I will say, for hunting ammo federal fusion gets the nod at our camp though. With Hornady a close second by most there.

I've had very good luck with ZQI 308 ammo.....bought it a few yrs back and watched video of American went in house to mfg plant and seems legit....Winchester,,,,OMG.... Junk as far as I'm concerned......AAC,,,hoping they are as good as Palmetto firearms....thanks for another GREAT video ..keep it up!

The gun show pissin' hawt hand loads are the entire reason to go!

Truth. A good reminder for us all.

Worst I’ve had was American Eagle.22 LR from 2020. Lots of duds and really varied on power. Fails to reliably cycle semi autos. They all fire but sometimes take a couple tries.

Ive had freedom munitions 308 that had about 1/4 of what I bought with case mouths that allowed movement of the bullets. These were labelled as "new"

Good info, just found the channel and subbed! Btw you'd look really sharp with a tight fade on the sides. Off topic but thats my thing

Ammo Inc .38 and 7.62x39 has provided consistent failures and even better squib loads.

I have been very happy with Czech ammo. I was nervous at first since it is a relatively small country, but never had an issue.

I bought some ZSR 12 gauge and was pleasantly surprised. Lots of variety (single/double round ball slug, forester slugs, buckshot, etc.). I wouldn't touch their rifle rounds, though! With factory reloads I definitely inspect them and sometimes batch weigh to make sure everything looks normal. Seconds are nice since they're usually in-spec, with maybe some brass dents or bullet seating varying a few thou. The only companies that stand out are SDI (stupidly dirty 5.56, will gum up the works quickly), Winchester and Remington (declining QC), and fly by night reloaders.

Ammo Inc uses the hardest primers in the history of primers. Be prepared for light strikes.

7.62 x 51 Lake City , purchased during the lockdowns had very hard primers At first I thought my hammer spring was tired and finally I realized it was the primers were hard. After I made some inquiries online, I was told that some LC is made for belt fed and has hard primers. Not sure how true that is, but I had poor accuracy due to hangfires

I have AAC 300 BLK sub and supersonic rounds. They have functioned flawlessly over the last few hundred rounds both suppressed and un-suppressed. I would say give them a try.

Interesting. I've naver had any issues with ammo inc or winchester. When i was qualifying to carry for work a couple years ago the guy standing next to me was shooting aguila 9mm. Its what he was given to qual with. That ammo locked his gun up and after getting it back from the manufacturer found out the ammo bulged the barrel.

Never had an issue with Sterling 12 guage! Academy has Monarch 9mm $.20 a piece. Brass, steel & aluminum.. brass is your best bet...go stock up boys!

Haven't bought factory ammo aside Barnaul 7.62x39 when I got my SGL10 converted into a AK-103. Before that I got Winchester white box 115 grain for a luger P08. Accuracy and function was fine. Majority of all my ammo comes from handloading it or surplus 8mm and old once fired LC 5.56 my grandpa burned up.

The zqi 7.62x51 was good stuff not sure if it's still around or not

I've found winchester target 9mm to be ok, but it kept stove piping in my dads M9. Magtech steel and surprisingly Winchester active duty M1152 9mm seemed to work the best. for 5.56, 7.62x39, .308 and 9mm, id say the best overall brand would be Igman, PPU or Belom, its cheap, effective and has never given my guns any problems.

What do you recommend for a Gewehr 88 delivered to Turkey and converted to modern 8mm? I don't know if it is 88/05/38 or 88/38. No idea. I only know that the Turkish ones are very spicy.

🇦🇺😎👍Hey Big John..Down here the main menu of freedom seeds is Remington, Winchester, Federal, ADI, Hornady….etc. we don’t seem to have any steel cased ( at least what I’ve seen ) or any other non mainstream production lines. Nowadays it’s mainly ultra premium stuff that few can afford . .223 is $1 per round and much upward , .308 is $1.50 and much upward $ 2.30 is very common…9 mm is $32/50 just for fmj….for some reason since 2021 of the scamdemic everything has gone up 60/120% and increasing … Alliant powder is $820/5LB rifle powder . Primers are 18/20 cents each…It’s seems our sport is heavily under attack from all angles and our country is a very peaceful country with low crime despite the rumours… One state has banned all bolt action rifles 284 Nosler and above ( just in case 😉🤝😉) and they are going for a 5 gun limit with a mountain of paperwork requirements to deter from the sport. 20 years ago we would have scoffed at these proposals but the noose is tightening…Just a little insight to what’s going on down here . Great video , keep up the good work 🏁🇺🇸

My MarColMar Cetme L is very picky with ammo, and AAC sabre black tip 62 gr is the only round I've tried so far that has been 100% reliable with it. I haven't noticed any issues with their 9mm either

ZSR 9mm at least i have not had issues with, at least in a jericho and converted tt-33, its safe and reliable but it is not in any way great, i'd put it at like, tula level but brass case.

I was under the impression that the Winchester white box was the same ammo from Lake City that the military gets and it was just extra production capacity made the same specifications

Armscorp. I’ve had issues with centerfire failures around 1 per box of 50. Rimfire 4 per box of 50. That’s trash.

do you know if Freedom Munitions is re-load ammo? some of their stuff is pretty darn cheap.

I cast and load my own.

Ive had pretty good luck with AAC 9mm 115 and 124gr. well over 1000rds of each

I’m using AAC 77gr otm 5.56 for my defensive load & from my experience it’s good to go. It regularly groups 1.5-2 moa for me & I’ve taken it out to 500 yards. Run about 800 rounds combined through my 10.3 & 14.5 Geissele URGI’s with no failures so far. For pistol defensive rounds it’s 135gr Hornady Critical Duty all day every day. I see RU-vidrs being sponsored by them but I’ve had horrible experiences with Calloway Ammunition. Their subsonic .300blk & 7.62x39 won’t cycle in any semiauto I tried them in. And several of the x39 rounds came with the bullet pushed into the case & all the powder spilled into the box. Also they didn’t ship my order for over a week with no explanation, then the day it shipped I got a text saying they were waiting on bullets to fill my order. It was very obvious they rushed loading the rounds. I will never buy from them again.

I won't touch Aguila again. The crap came with some kind of goop on them. I believe it was for lubrication. Totally gummed up my LCP II 22lr pistol.

From one 7.92x57 guy to an 8mm Mauser guy! Greetings! Agreed on the Turk surplus from the '30's... the stuff literally stinks. That said, it shoots just fine for old tird-word surplus in my Turk Mauser. I won't shoot the stuff in my German K98k, Russian capture or Yugos...

DAMMIT TO HELL, JUST BOUGHT 500 9 mm white box, shit, should have got this swiss nato

If you like to deer hunt with ur 8mm milsurp. Norma has dumped a ton of their norma whitetail ammo in 8x57 in the market. Very good deer hunting ammo

I am not a huge Winchester ammo fan myself. Maybe they will improve since they moved all their production from E. Alton, IL to Oxford, Mississipi I have to tell you this before I leave . My English major stepmother would chastise me for saying something like "Ammos" Since Ammo is already a plural word. There is no need to add a "S" to it. Sorry to have to tell you this but I hope it helps you in the future. Good video on substandard ammo to watch out for.

I just bought so many ammo inc hollow points for 8 bucks each 😬

I think that I have the same, or very similar, shirt.

Cabels owns herters,and I won't use it period. Winchester is made by olin and I have never had issues but haven't had the need to buy any in some years other than 22 lr,federal is good and pmc is pretty much all I buy. Did pickup some Indian made ammo manufactured on Spanish machines and Belgian powder I have not tested, but will only buy pmc in the future. Accuracy of 55 gran Winchester I've tried is not good and will not purchase in the future, and probably will not do the same with 9mil.

Sterling has a bad rep with some 9mm shooters.. Just sayin... I wonder how or IF this might be a reflection on the Turkish pistols!??!🤨

Sterling 762x39 is very dirty to the point that the range is foggy and can't see shit I stop buying Sterling cause of that.

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Indeed.

Any winchester white box is junk.. Mexican ammo is junk, too.

Ammo Inc is junk!!!

Get over this click, Master Bait!😅😅😅!

Your lectures are falling flat. Your money is not going into your set, that for sure.

I automatically block click bait. Too bad. So sad.

Really ? Some Turkish ammo is good

The advertisement before the video was so long I clicked off the video. Sorry.

Stopped watching after you said "ammos" twice. What the heck is an ammos?