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This is a discussion on Blazer 9mm within the Ammo and Reloading forums, part of the Gun Forum category; Is there any reason not to use the Blazer 9mm ammo with the aluminum cartridges? Is it best to stick with brass?...
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09-12-2012, 02:12 PM
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Is there any reason not to use the Blazer 9mm ammo with the aluminum cartridges? Is it best to stick with brass?
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09-12-2012, 02:26 PM
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I always stay away from non-brass cartridges in any of my guns. Its hard on the extractor and also seems to be a dirty type ammo. No reason really to go with aluminum ammo as brass can be had for the same prices. My .02
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09-12-2012, 03:01 PM
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I don't shoot it because I reload... (and don't own a 9mm) but I cant see an aluminum case putting anymore wear on a steel extractor than a brass case would... I say shoot what you can find and what your pistol feeds.
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09-12-2012, 03:31 PM
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Aluminum would not be bad for the extractor.Myself in the 9 cal I just look for the NATO spec stuff and use it for range and carry.It's good enough for the GI's so it ought to work for me.
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09-12-2012, 04:46 PM
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I've had lots of duds in WWB and Remington green box. Never have I had a single failure with any blazer 9mm. And I've easily shot 10,000 rounds over the past several years in various guns.
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09-12-2012, 10:25 PM
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One thing I love about blazer is that its extremely light ammo.
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09-13-2012, 03:59 AM
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Blazer is banned in most of the ranges I shoot at, because the cartridges will sometimes bulge or even breach. Two local ranges keep framed skeletons of pistols that were kaboomed by Blazer ammo. And, of course, who could forget this: |
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09-13-2012, 09:01 AM
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Why would u point a loaded pistol, and it was loaded, at yourself or anyone else. The case may be jambed but you never know when it may come loose and fire! At least it appears to be loaded. maybe it is a fired case but by the angle of it it appears like it jambed while loading into battery.
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09-13-2012, 09:53 AM
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I have no issues with CCI Blazer Aluminum case, it works fine in my G20 in 10mm and that's not a light round, especially the 200gr TMJ. Steve |
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09-13-2012, 10:34 AM
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| SigSauer P238 SE Rose Wood Big Problem at the range - YouTube
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09-13-2012, 12:09 PM
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Ranges sometimes get whiney about it because sorting their recycling hurts their va-jay-jays.
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09-13-2012, 03:21 PM
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09-13-2012, 07:55 PM
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09-13-2012, 09:43 PM
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I don't know how the Blazers with the aluminum cases are now, but the ones I used to use over 20 years ago were not that good. Their quality control was not very good so I would have more than my share of squib loads. If you were not cognizant of the squib load firing and fired the next round, you could have experienced a major "ah shit"... I also use to hear that the aluminum case was harmful to the gun (but I don't remember how it was harmful). Today's Blazer Brass is very good, IMHO... |
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09-14-2012, 01:52 AM
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The only problem that I've encountered was When I would shoot .38 Spl though my snubby revolver. The aluminum would expand causing the cases to stick in the cylinder. Not disassemble and pry kind of stick.
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09-14-2012, 05:59 AM
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watching both of those videos it seems like the owner had a squib round with the bullet not exiting the barrel and then fired a second round bulging the barrel (and thankfully not blowing up in his face)... That would explain a large part of his woes to me...as for who's at fault...IF the barrel was bulged, what did it???...the cartridges...there is where the fault seems to lie... ...if it wasn't a bulged barrel and it was just a failure to extract (which is also possible and would be SiG's fault possibly) but we'll never know...WHY somone would force closed a slide in that condition instead of trying to force open the slide, ejecting the shell then checking the barrel, extractor, ejector and all after the weapon was clear is beyond me... Bill |
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09-14-2012, 06:01 AM
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I've never had an issue with Blazer and only opt to use others when I find them as cheap as Blazer cartridges...of the ranges I go to, I have not heard of any issue other than they might not want you to mix brass and aluminum cases as they usually keep the "brass" for reloading purposes unless you take yours away... Bill |
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09-17-2012, 08:52 PM
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Gosh, I've shot Blazer Aluminum in 9mm, 38 Special, 357 Magnum, 40 S&W, and 45 ACP. Not one problem. As far as I'm concerned 9mm Blazer Aluminum shoots a lot cleaner than WWB, or any of the steel cased stuff. Rarely buy it today since there is no longer a price advantage. If you can find any that does have a price advantage, I would not hesitate to buy it. Heck, I've still got some Blazer 45 hollow-points, 45 230 gr. FMJ, 40 S&W 180 grain, 9mm hollow-points, 357 Mag 158 grain hollow-points, and 38 Special 158 grain lead round nose, in addition to quite a bit of 115 gr. FMJ 9mm bought back when ammo was cheap. Never had a problem. |
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