Olympic Ammo: Experiences?

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Justin

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This weekend I was at a gunshow and saw this ammo from Olympic Industries S.A. for sale. Usually I go with S&B, but the price on this stuff was right: $5 a box, so I bought 200 rounds of it.
I've never heard of it before, and it's apparently made in Greece.
Anyone shoot this stuff?
If so, how is it?
Does it feed/function reliably?
How good is accuracy?
Was this a good deal?

Thanks
 
Haven't shot any of it, but haven't heard anything bad about it either. Ammoman's got it for $7/box in lots of 500 rounds, and it's 124 grain. So it sounds like you did get a good deal! Tell us more after you've fired some of it.
 
I'll post a range test, but it probably won't be for a few weeks until I can get out to the range. I'll see how it stacks up against 9mm S&B.
If I decide to get fancy, I'll throw some Winchester WhiteBox in there as well.
So far, though, I'm not really impressed with the way the rounds are packaged. They're in little styrofoam trays that are a real bear to extract from the cardboard box. This, and the boxes are bigger than S&B's unobtrusively efficient packaging.
But that's a minor gripe. :)
 
I just got an email from Ammoman that says:
Brand new Olympic 9mm 124 grain with the new Norma surefire primers.Brass cased and reloadable.
$119-1000 delivered to your door.
That's it........$119 total price for boxer primed new 9mm ammo.
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and he shows this picture on his website:

9MMOLYMPIC2.jpg


If that's what you got for $5/box, you got a great deal, IMO.

Besides, if your ammo falls overboard from your yacht, the styrofoam trays will probably make the boxes float. ;)
 
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I just ordered a case of it a few days ago -- ammoman says delivery is due on the 26th of this month. I'll let you guys know
that night.

I normally shoot 115gr Fiocchi - so I'll be comparing it to that.

$119 shipped was just too good to pass up.

I bought a box of Magtech 115gr the other night - dirty, dirty ammo, but not too bad.

-d
 
Blackhawk-
Yeah, that's the same stuff that I bought. No one seems to know anything about it though. They seem to be a fairly new entry onto the market.
 
my experience

I put a case of that stuff through my USP. It's nice and hot but filthy. Once in a while I'd get this huge puff of smoke and/or sparks shooting out the barrel. After 300 rounds or so I could feel the bullet grab and twist the gun. The ammo was 100% reliable in that gun.

Personally, I like the Fiocchi bullets better. They were the same price at ammoman a few months ago.
 
I ordered about 500 rds of Olympic 9mm from http://www.sportsmansguide.com for pretty cheap a few months ago. I shot about 75% of it one day and the rest the next weekend back to back with CCI.

I found the Olympic to be pretty good for range ammo. It was accurate, hot and didn't seem to dirty up the CZ-75 too bad. At least it wasn't anything CLP couldn't clean up.
 
I've used a bunch of it in four different 9mm's. No problems. The only negative I've heard is that the primers are hard and sometimes won't fire, particularly in Glocks. Worked fine in my Glock though.
 
Olympic Ammo

Olympic ammo is made in Greece. I have bought about 2500 rounds of the stuff. Out of the 1st 1K I got 2 mis-fires due to bad primers. Out of the 2nd 1K ( so far 200 rounds fired ) I got one that barely fired the bullet out of the barrel and again another bad primer round. Also they come packed in a styrofoam tray and if they get bumped around during shipping you get little styro pieces that you have to clean off each round. I have been paying 90.00 / K + shipping off gunbroker or auction arms. If you can get it on sale at Wal Mart the winchester 115 gr 9mm is 100.00 /1K rounds. I have yet to have a bad round, and have bought 2K of these. They come in 100 round boxes. Not on sale they are 11.50.
 
Winchester WB. Hard to beat at the W-Mart price.
Cheaper to pay the state sales tax than shipping and the hazmat and its cheaper than S&B from CTD lately.
I try and pick up at least one box everytime I'm in W-Mart. The fellow that runs the SGs dept. has seen me so many times he know to go over and wait by the ammo to see how many boxes it will be THIS time. He doesn't even ring it up back there in sporting goods anymore, just hands it over and I run it through with the socks, milk and what ever. I enjoy popping a couple of boxes 9mm up there with the potato chips for all the world to see. This past week it was 9mm and Easter baskets.

God bless America.

Plus you wind up with a fairly good case for reloading.
S-:)
 
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