Has any one seen or used the 9mm ammo that comes in the plastic buckets at Walmart? I was wondering if it's any good.
Are you talking about the small 100 round white containers? If so, I have shot through two of them and they worked fine.
Yes that's them I can't place the brand name
TulAmmo Brass Maxx
When I first started shooting the Tulammo BrassMaxx in the 100rd tubs about a year ago, I was pleased. This is made in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was a little dirty shooting but worked fine. However their quality control has slipped a lot since then. Out of 300 rds from newly purchased ammo, I had 5 that would not chamber from the mag. I was able to get 3 of them to shoot by hitting the back of the slide with my hand. Here are a couple that would not work at all. The one on the left jammed half way into the chamber of my G34, when I racked the slide back, the case and bullet fell out dumping powder in the gun. The one on the right measures .005 too large at the case mouth. I will visually inspect my rounds from now on, but won't be buying anymore when I shoot up what I have.
I've got a bunch of it in 9mm and my AOL is all over the place. Some bullets set further back than others. Additionally, it seems to run pretty hot. If I load a mag with Freedom Munitions reman FMJ and Brass Maxx I can tell which was which by the recoil. BRASS MAXX is a hotter loading than most.
I tried a tub recently in two different Rugers. An SR9C w/ a couple of thousand trouble free rounds, and a new SR9 with 400 trouble free rounds. (Trouble free up until this point.)
Both failed to return to battery at least once, and finally a brass case wouldn't extract and ended the range session. I had to take the SR9 home to get a dowel and pop the frozen brass out of the barrel.
The guy next to me happened to be using an old tub for his reloads, and said that he had used it in the past, and it ran just fine.
Maybe I just got unlucky, but that's the first time I've ever had a pistol misbehave and I didn't like the feeling one little bit.
Both failed to return to battery at least once, and finally a brass case wouldn't extract and ended the range session. I had to take the SR9 home to get a dowel and pop the frozen brass out of the barrel.
The guy next to me happened to be using an old tub for his reloads, and said that he had used it in the past, and it ran just fine.
Maybe I just got unlucky, but that's the first time I've ever had a pistol misbehave and I didn't like the feeling one little bit.
