PMC Bronze

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I just got done with a short shooting session with my revolvers, I had a box of 50 PMC Bronze .357 Magnum 158 grain SJSP rounds and through that box I had three misfires.

Is PMC a cheap band? Or did I just luck into a bad box?

Normally .357 is about $1 per round ($50 before tax for a box of 50) and I got these for about $30.
 
Odd, I have shot thousands of rounds of PMC and never had an issue.

What happened, was it just not firing?

Did you have good solid hits on the primer?
 
I shot a box of PMC Bronze .357 Mag 158 grain SJSP and I had a terrible problem with ejection issues. The cases were very bulged out just above the case web. They didn't feel or look overcharged, I think it was just really crappy brass. I had to eject every case with a dowel so that is the first and last time I am using PMC .357 mag.

On another note, PMC Bronze .308 seems very weakly loaded.
 
No probs with PMC Bronze for me

I have shot at least a thousand rounds of PMC Bronze 9mm fmj in the past two years with zero ftf. Good quality ammo in my book.
 
@5.56rifleguy: Yeah, the indentations looked solid, dead center. It had to be the rounds cos I repositioned the cylinder to fire the round again and it took three attempts to get one of them to fire, and another wouldn't fire at all.
 
I am not a big fan of PMC .357 brass from a reloading standpoint. It is thin. That said my AR loves the 55 gr PMC bronze. I get 1.5 moa with the stuff all day long and it was inexpensive so I am torn on PMC ammo because I do think the
357 mag ammo is cheaply made.
 
PMC, ' Bronze' is decent range-quality ammo. Not the most powerful, but decent. I recently shot off about 300 rounds, and had no more than 1 or 2 feeding problems. Not sure I'd be willing to pay over $14.00 dollars a box for it, though.
 
I've been buying PMC for nearly 30 years. Bought a lot of their 240 gr HP .44 mag stuff that was stellar in my Redhawk, in the 80s and 90s, and a lot of their 170 gr HP, and 200 gr TCFMJ 10mm stuff. The 2 10mm loads are still sold in their Bronze line. Never an issue with any of those, ever, or in the .223 stuff I've used.
 
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