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retmil46 · #16 02-04-2012, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Also whats going on with Winchester? I have shot literally tens of thousands of white box rounds in all calibers and I have always found it to be cheap, but pretty good ammo.

This box sucked, you could hear the different loading of the rounds when they went off. Also the accuracy was all over the place with some of them. I had fliers like you wouldn't beleive.

Its not the pistol, with some Hornady critical defense rounds it was like a laser gun, but those are $1 each...

Strange. With shotgun ammo, it's a whole different story.

Couple years ago when I was living and working in San Antonio, I picked up a Stoeger 20 gauge SXS as a knockabout gun to do some dovehunting with. With cheap Remington Game Loads, I'd get close to a dozen misfires out of a box - on the shotgun forums, people with other makes of guns had the same complaint, word was that Remington was using cheap hard primers in their lower end shells.

But with Winchester shells, even the bargain basement ones, nary a problem. Same with the higher end ($15/box) Remington Express shells.

As good as their shotgun ammo is, kinda surprising that thier pistol ammo sucks.

elchivito · #17 02-04-2012, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by retmil46

Strange. With shotgun ammo, it's a whole different story.

Couple years ago when I was living and working in San Antonio, I picked up a Stoeger 20 gauge SXS as a knockabout gun to do some dovehunting with. With cheap Remington Game Loads, I'd get close to a dozen misfires out of a box - on the shotgun forums, people with other makes of guns had the same complaint, word was that Remington was using cheap hard primers in their lower end shells.

But with Winchester shells, even the bargain basement ones, nary a problem. Same with the higher end ($15/box) Remington Express shells.

As good as their shotgun ammo is, kinda surprising that thier pistol ammo sucks.

Same here. I like their shotgun shells, but am only a tiny bit more confident in their green and white box 9mm over Winchester white box. I'll still take Federals for ball ammo target shooting any time. My Sigs are not picky. The Berettas are a lot more choosy in what they like to eat.

LaRondo · #18 02-05-2012, 12:58 PM

Congratulations! Good choice.
With its full size frame, the 92FS should be chambered in .40 S&W.
9mm doesn't required such a large frame.

Personally, I couldn't warm up with the FS model. I much prefer my CZ 75B in .40

I recently took a look at the PX4 Storm and was very impressed with its ergonomics and balance.

Never felt much of recoil issue with the .40.
I don't think I would pistol shoot out @ 75 yards, unless I really had to ...

kmaysob · #19 02-05-2012, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Also whats going on with Winchester? I have shot literally tens of thousands of white box rounds in all calibers and I have always found it to be cheap, but pretty good ammo.

This box sucked, you could hear the different loading of the rounds when they went off. Also the accuracy was all over the place with some of them. I had fliers like you wouldn't beleive.

Its not the pistol, with some Hornady critical defense rounds it was like a laser gun, but those are $1 each...

the white box has become some real crap. compared white box to federal of the same price range today, huge difference
ive set the presses up and started reloading everything else, guess i might as well start doing 9mm too

E150GT · #20 02-06-2012, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Yeah its a lot easier to control.

.40S&W is a snappy round, the recoil is very different from even .45. Never cared for it much until now, but I have only shot light weight compact and sub compact polymer pistols chambered in it. Most of those are simply overpowered by it, and like you said you have to just hold on and kind of hope the rounds land about where you want.

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This is why I traded my Glock 23 for a G19. .40 cal needs to be in a metal framed gun. I dont have a problem with my dad's ruger.