Cor-Bon Quality

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What's the deal with Cor-Bon quality? The various gun rags write about their excellent stopping power and even Marshall & Sanow and The Fackerites have good things to say about their stopping power. However, I've been hearing & reading on the internet that Cor-Bon has been having issues with quality control and primers sometimes not firing thereby making their bullets not reliable for self defense purposes. Has anyone had any first hand experience with this?
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I've never fired tons of Cor-Bon due to expense. However, of the boxes of it that I have fired I have never had any failures.
I load it for defense use and think it's as good as it gets.

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I have seen it second hand. :) I was at the range about 6 months ago, a friend fired a box of Corbon .40S&W, he had three misfires from a box of 50. I was not impressed at all! All of the misfires had a solid primer strike, just like the ones that did fire. He sent them back to Corbon with some of the fired brass, never did hear if he got a response from them. I've fired a couple hundred 9mm, and I've never had a failure, but I settled on HydraShok for my carry ammo.

There was also the incident several years back where a disgruntled employee sabotaged some ammo at the factory, that created a few ripples in the pond.
 
I ahev shot several hundred Cor-Bons through both my USP-9 and USPc-9. Never had a misfire.

I have experiemnted with several different types of self-defense ammo. The Cor-Bon had the lowest level of muzzle flash out of the whole bunch I tested (Federal, Remington, Fiocci, Winchester). I also noticed no dfference in recoil between the Cor-Bons and the others.

In fact, the Cor-Bons seemed to have a more consistent crisp recoil. All of my CCW weapons have Cor-Bons loaded.

Be safe.

CMOS

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A while back I fired some Corbon 357 through my *&* model 19 and had 5 misfires out of about 25 rounds. All of the primers had been struck, so I ran them though again and they eventually fired. One needed to be run through 6 times before it fired. This was at -5 degrees but I dont know how the temperature would effect this.

Two months ago I had my first ever jam with my Glock 17 with Corbon +p+ 115 grainers.

This is not exactly confidence inspiring. I think I'll try some Proload, I hear they're pretty good.
 
About 2 years ago my friend had 2 misfires with 115 gr JHP 9mm Cor-Bon ammo. Primers had solid hits but repeated attempts would not set them off. This was 2 out of 150 rounds he fired that day. All three boxes were from same lot he purchased back in late 1991 or early 1992. I had 2 boxes of same ammo from same lot which I had purchased same time so I fired all 100 rounds few days later but it all fired. My friend fired his ammo in his Glock 17 and I fired mine through P7M8 and Beretta 92FS. His Glock never misfired before or since that time so I have to assume problem was not with his gun. I thought maybe the primers were contaminated with some solvent but according to my friend these ammo were never loaded in any gun and was kept in ammo can. Since that time I never used Cor-Bon 9mm ammo. I still use Cor-Bon for 38 Special carry gun and sometimes in 45 ACP.
 
I've never fired a cor-bon round, but I do have two boxes of it which I carry around regularly: .40 and .357.

I've had the .40 box for longer than I can remember; probably a few years. I've loaded mags and unloaded mags with the same rounds many times.

My problem is that both the jackets and the bullets have tarnished. I doubt that this would effect feeding as the bullets are still smooth on the outside, but it bothers me that they would tarnish like that.

Granted, the same thing happened with some 9mm Hydrashoks I have, but not as badly.

I haven't seen the same thing happen with my .357 ammo, but haven't used it as much.

Finally, I'm very concerned by the posts above.
 
Hey Branrot, take those ammo out and shoot it. How can you carry those ammo if you never fired them in your gun before :mad: I know they are expensive but you got to shoot some to know if they'll work in your gun. I personally never use any ammo for carry purpose unless I have fired atleast 100 rounds in a particular pistol (minimum 30 rounds for revolvers) without any problem.
 
The only Cor-Bon I have tried is .45 Colt stuff. The cases are thinner than Winchester's, and that doesn't mix well with their hot loads. I can't use'em in my Total titanium because of the thin brass. Winchester just falls out.
 
Hate to sound harsh, but CorBon inconsistency is what got me started in the 'ammo-manufacturing' business.

Other testing confirms my results.

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branrot, my Hydrashoks & Cor-Bons have also tarnished. I haven't had any problems with them at the range but the rumors that I read & heard and the above posts made me switch the ammo in my guns this morning to Remington Golden Sabers & Winchester Silvertips (I alternate ever other round between lite & fast and heavy & slow as I don't know whether Marshall & Sanow or The Fackerites are correct with regard to stopping power). Regards,
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[This message has been edited by FUD (edited May 24, 2000).]
 
Fud's comments about the stopping power debate between M&S and the Facklerites made me think of the best cartoon I saw about not "stopping" power but "fire"power. One panel showed a BG with lots of bullets whizzing past him with the caption "this is not firepower" and the other panel showed one bullet drilling him between the eyes like Fearless Fosdick with the caption, "THIS is firepower". I think it applies to the stopping power debate also and on that I think we all can agree...we can't stop it unless we can hit it.

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