FIOCCHI ammo?

Fiocchi is good stuff. I've never had any problems getting it to ignite (hard primers). Simply testing some of it in your gun is the way to go.

Fiocchi's JHP's (with the exception of the newer XTP bullets) are about like shooting premium 1980's ammo. It works, though you may not get the constant and reliable expansion of newer JHP's. For someone who needs JHP ammo on a budget, it's a very good value.

The lower per-round price also means that you can use it in high-capacity pistol magazines if it shoots accurately in your gun. For instance, you could load your XD, Beretta 92 or similar pistol with 5-6 rounds of expensive SD ammo like Cor-Bon or Speer Gold Dot and fill out the rest of the magazine with Fiocchi JHP ammo. This gives you the best JHP rounds up front for SD. If things turn to poop and you need more than six shots, you still have 9-10 good high performance JHP rounds as follow-up.

In my experience, Fiocchi is a good value. It burns clean, is consistent from shot to shot and is decently accurate for the price. They don't appear to use much in the way of flash retardants. Recoil and muzzle blast can be more than some other brands, but nothing excessive.
 
Fio .45acp

The range here only lets me shoot their ammo, which happens to be FIOCCHI .45ACP. I *do not* like it. Too dirty. I occasionally get jams w/ FIO. I prefer Blazer which shoots cleaner and never gives my .45 a problem.
 
used it a lot,had 3 from 1 box ftf and 1 hang fire(about a 3 second delay).If you never had one they are weird.I just figured a batch of bad primers
 
I bought several boxes of .38 special to shoot out of my snubby. Boy, did that stuff throw out a fireball out of the short barrel. It was pretty fun to shoot, and like other posters have already said, it was loaded a little hotter than the domestic stuff I've shot. I ordered some more for my next time at the range as it's pretty good price.
 
FIOCCHI in a Kel-tec .380

FIOCCHI in a Kel-tec .380 is HOT.
I really don't like to practice with it because after just a few magazines the hand is almost raw.
I can't say about the reliability because I've never had a failure running anything through my Kel-tec.
 
Fiocchi is hotter than ammo loaded to US specs, and the calibers I have used, mostly the smaller autpo calibers, have performed 100%.

S&B is even better.

mark
 
Mostly I reload but when I do buy ammo online, I am pretty cheap about it (unless I am buy it for SD) Fiocchi is usually the cheapest I can find for target shooting and I have used a lot of their .32 ACP and .22 short. I've been very happy with both. It seems relatively accurate but the comments about it being dirty are probably justified. But I'm not shooting barrels of it so it's no big deal.
 
I'd buy it up, it's good stuff. I have used it in the 9mm, 45,and 38/357, works great, like these other guys have said its hotter than most standard U.S. loads.
 
Onother thing that I like about Fiocchi is the fact that they make ammo for several quasi dead calibers that are otherwise almost impossible to find.
 
TOP of the line

their EMB Ammo (6grams and 5grams in 9x19mm) is the best pistol round out there:

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it sharpens and closes on hard targets and opens and expands in soft targets. Intelligent bullet.
 
Their .22 LR standard velocity works flawlessly in my High Standard Victor. I buy it by the case when I can get it.

All the best,
Rob
 
FTFs with Fiocchi 44 Special

Even though this is an older thread, I felt compelled to post.

I bought 3 boxes of Fiocchi 44 Special. I have frequent FTFs in my S&W 44 Mag. Sometimes 2-3 out of 6. Most times a second try fires it off, but had one last week that would not fire after 5-6 tries. Primer looked like I had hit it with a center punch.

Maybe a bad batch, old batch, or they lowered their quality.

By comparison, I can go through 30 rounds of Remington 44 Mag and not have a single FTF, so I don't believe it has to do with the gun.
 
Did you contact Fiocchi?

Not to criticize lapoljo, but anytime I hear about this kind of thing, I wonder why people don't contact the manufacturer. The same people who would be instantly on the phone to Sony, Dell, Lennox Furnaces, or Goodyear about poor product performance almost never seem to contact the manufacturer of ammo about problems. It could be they received a batch of hard primers that went undetected or were never sent back in a recall. Most will send you some sort of voucher for free ammo to make up for it.

In 1998, I bought some Winchester .41 Magnum ammo and found one round in a box of 20 had been loaded with two bullets! :eek: Fairly obvious and should have been caught in QC. I sent Winchester a letter with a photo of the round. In turn, they asked for the entire box back and sent me coupons good for 3 boxes of their ammo.
 
Fiocchi .357 magnum ammo - both the 142gr JTC and the 148gr SJHP - is really high quality. However I have to go against the prevailing opinion here because to me the recoil from these rounds feels noticeably UNDERpowered. I found some independent chrono results which seem to confirm it: http://sargesrollcall.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html

They are a great value, clean and accurate, but don't believe the numbers on the box.
 
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Like Silvanus said, "Another thing that I like about Fiocchi is the fact that they make ammo for several quasi dead calibers that are otherwise almost impossible to find."

And it's cheap. I just re-ordered two 50-round boxes of 32S&W long wadcutter for only $34 (from Midway Supply). That's pretty cheap. Our local Gander Mountain superstore doesn't stock .32 at all.
 
It's the stuff we use at work. Still have to see a single malfunction with it. Pretty hot, by the way.

Buy confidently.
 
I liked the Fiocchi 125 gr 9mm Shooting Dynamics HP ammo as it is reliable and accurate in my pistol, until I tested it on milk jugs. It would not expand, even at a range of two feet, shot from a 5" barrel.

The other bullets (XTP's) should work better but the SD's are poorly designed IMO.
 
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