Cor-Bon headstamps? I think I got jipped

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Big Al

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I bought a box of Cor-Bon 32ACPs a while back and was really unimpressed with the quality of the bullet. I just bought another box of 32ACP Cor-Bons this weekend, and the bullets look 10 times better.

The headstamp on the junky looking bullets have an "R-P" stamp, but the headstamp on the new, good-looking bullets has "Cor-Bon" stamped on them. I think someone at the store or distibutors may have switched the bullets. If I remember right, the Remington 9mm +Ps I have share the same headstamp as these "junky looking" bullets which are supposedly Cor-Bon products.

One other wierd thing, I have a box of old Cor-Bon 9mm 115gr +Ps that have that same "R-P" headstamp. mabye they are Cor-Bons !?

I'm confused...



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Al, As George said, you probably have an older box of ammo from Cor-Bon.
A couple of years ago they started ordering their brass from Starline with their own headstamp. Mark / Fl
 
Big Al,
I just went to the safe and looked at my own .32ACP Cor-Bons. They don't look as good as the Cor-Bons I have in other calibers. Mine have the " R P" stamp on their heads also.
Tell me. Are the .32ACP Cor-Bons reliable in your P-32? They're so short that it makes me wonder. But, so far so good. They don't work in my Guardian. They just jam into the feed ramp and stop.

Will

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R-P stands for Remington-Peters; it is Remington's center fire headstamp. If the ammo was not by Remington, it was reloaded by someone.

Jim
 
Fellas, I don't think that CorBon ammo in Remington cases means it's "reloaded". Years ago, CorBon used the Remington cases for their 9mm 115 grain load because the cannelure on the case was at just the right spot to seat the Sierra projectile to the correct depth. The R-P cases were all new, unfired brass when loaded by CorBon. Now, it may be that when they first started, they used once fired brass, but I have no knowledge of this. And has been stated, the cases with The "CorBon" headstamp are Starline.
 
parabellum got it right.

besides... isn't all factory ammo really just reloads with new components?
 
I noticed a strange thing on a box of Cor-Bon .38s I recently bought.

I thought I was buying 115 grain +P .38s, but the box that they come in says +P+. The headstamps on the cartridges just say +P. I can't help but wonder what I actually have. :confused:
 
Big Al, I don't have any knowledge about Cor-Bon using Remington casings in the past but all the Cor-Bon I've purchased has the Cor-Bon headstamp. You didn't indicate where you purchased your ammo, but everyone should always open the box and inspect the ammo BEFORE they purchase it. Last year, I bought some Cor-Bon at a gunshow and later discovered that about half the rounds had the bullet set too deeply in the casing. I contacted Peter Pi, CEO of Cor-Bon via email(Peter posts occasionally here on Firing Line). Peter resolved the problem, but here is an excerpt from the email correspondence Peter sent to me at that time:

"I have seen a bunch of weird stuff coming out of gun shows. We had one dealer selling bogus Cor-Bon a couple of years ago down in the Southern States. This guy was putting reloaded ammo back into empty Cor-Bon boxes.
Then we had a guy call a few weeks ago that he had bought a box of 9mm and there were 380 in the box. The next day someone else calls and said that he had 9mm in a 380 box. Guess what, they bought them both from the same show and same dealer. What happened was that someone was looking at both boxes and switched them by mistake."

As I said, Peter resolved my problem and Cor-Bon is a top-notch ammo manufacturer. Manufacturers have no control over product after it leaves the factory and some retailers can be unscrupulous, so buyer beware. I learned my lesson....eyeball the ammo BEFORE you purchase it.......Dan in GA
 
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I use the best...

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The only Cor-Bon I have generally purchased has been either the 110 or 115 grain .357 (depending on when it was manufactured) or 9mm plus P. The earlier CB I bought used brass with a "shooting star" logo on it, presumably Starline. Later I started getting CB loaded in Remington brass. Haven't bought any for a while so have not seen the brass stamped "Cor-Bon".

(Pause) I just checked a box of recently purchased Cor-Bon 200 grain .45 Colt and it is loaded in R-P brass.
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[This message has been edited by Laz (edited September 06, 2000).]
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Big Al:
I bought a box of Cor-Bon 32ACPs a while back and was really unimpressed with the quality of the bullet. I just bought another box of 32ACP Cor-Bons this weekend, and the bullets look 10 times better.

The headstamp on the junky looking bullets have an "R-P" stamp, but the headstamp on the new, good-looking bullets has "Cor-Bon" stamped on them. I think someone at the store or distibutors may have switched the bullets. If I remember right, the Remington 9mm +Ps I have share the same headstamp as these "junky looking" bullets which are supposedly Cor-Bon products.

One other wierd thing, I have a box of old Cor-Bon 9mm 115gr +Ps that have that same "R-P" headstamp. mabye they are Cor-Bons !?

I'm confused...

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Some of the first CORBON 32ACP ammo used R-P brass because that was all we could get. We were not all that pleased with the bullets appearance either but they worked fine in our test guns.
Our headstamp brass is not made by STARLINE.
We have used R-P brass many times when that's what we can get. We will continue to do so when the need arises. If you are not sure what is what there's a phone number on every box that goes out of here. TM
 
Hi Terry. Care to tell us who makes your brass, or is that an industry secret? I love CorBon's product and carry the 115 grain 9mm load in my G19.
Have you ever had any problems with the 90 grain 9mm load? The reason I ask is that I bought some a few years back to test it as a potential home defense load. Out of both a G19 and G26, the projectiles were "yawing" at seven yards. Not so much a keyhole, but you could see on the target that the projectiles were not striking squarely. The hole looked ever so slightly out of round. I assume this might jave to do with a combination of the Glock's polygonal rifling and the 90 grain projectile's short bearing length. Do you guys offer this load anymore?
 
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