Howdy, y'all!
Yesterday, while qualifying with my (secondary/off-duty) Kel-Tec P-11 for a local P.D. reserves, I had my little pistol go "click"... TWICE. This was a completely new experience to me; I'd NEVER had my P-11 let me down.
During the Mozambique drill at 5 yards, at the very end of the session, I got off the first half of a double-tap, but the second half went "click." I pulled the trigger again (the P-11 has second-strike capability.): "Click."
As I had enough rounds in the magazine to complete the drill, I abreviated "Slap-Rack-Ready" to simply "Rack-Bang," and then made the head shot on the silohuette. The start of the very next Mozambique Drill brought me another click. Again, "Rack-Bang," bang, bang.
This was, so far as I can tell, due to the ammo I was using: Sellier and Bellot 9mm 115g FMJ Berdan primed. I've always had good luck with other S&B, and hadn't noticed any problems with the S&B in practice before. But there I was, having to recover, when shooting for record. Embarrassing. (Shots were, however, within time, and well within silohuette A-Zone; practice makes... er, better!
) Main reason that I had this stuff is because it was SOOOOOO inexpensive from Cheaper Than Dirt.
The thing that caught my attention, however, was an officer there at the range who saw me with the box of it before shooting and remarked that he wouldn't depend on the stuff, as he'd had multiple failures with it in the past. I was surprised, as mine had thus far worked well. He'd left before I could catch up with him after qualifying, so I wasn't able to find out the nature of the failures he'd experienced.
My question is, anyone else used this stuff and found the same problem? The box is silver and green two-tone, with "9mm Luger" in a field of yellow on the front. Red lot # stamped on the inside of the end of the box is: "980/172"
Now, I'm NOT looking for commentary on my lowly little P-11!
I want to know if anyone has found another cheap (<$9/box) source of factory 9mm, or if perhaps it's just this lot that was bad, or if any other S&B factory ammo has given any of y'all problems.
Tactical Rifle, BTW, wrote a love letter review of S&B .308 Match rifle ammo. My experience with all of their rifle ammo has been excellent. I've just never used their pistol ammo before.
Thanks for your help in advance, folks!
Matt/L.P.
[This message has been edited by Long Path (edited April 16, 2000).]
Yesterday, while qualifying with my (secondary/off-duty) Kel-Tec P-11 for a local P.D. reserves, I had my little pistol go "click"... TWICE. This was a completely new experience to me; I'd NEVER had my P-11 let me down.
During the Mozambique drill at 5 yards, at the very end of the session, I got off the first half of a double-tap, but the second half went "click." I pulled the trigger again (the P-11 has second-strike capability.): "Click."
As I had enough rounds in the magazine to complete the drill, I abreviated "Slap-Rack-Ready" to simply "Rack-Bang," and then made the head shot on the silohuette. The start of the very next Mozambique Drill brought me another click. Again, "Rack-Bang," bang, bang.
This was, so far as I can tell, due to the ammo I was using: Sellier and Bellot 9mm 115g FMJ Berdan primed. I've always had good luck with other S&B, and hadn't noticed any problems with the S&B in practice before. But there I was, having to recover, when shooting for record. Embarrassing. (Shots were, however, within time, and well within silohuette A-Zone; practice makes... er, better!
The thing that caught my attention, however, was an officer there at the range who saw me with the box of it before shooting and remarked that he wouldn't depend on the stuff, as he'd had multiple failures with it in the past. I was surprised, as mine had thus far worked well. He'd left before I could catch up with him after qualifying, so I wasn't able to find out the nature of the failures he'd experienced.
My question is, anyone else used this stuff and found the same problem? The box is silver and green two-tone, with "9mm Luger" in a field of yellow on the front. Red lot # stamped on the inside of the end of the box is: "980/172"
Now, I'm NOT looking for commentary on my lowly little P-11!
I want to know if anyone has found another cheap (<$9/box) source of factory 9mm, or if perhaps it's just this lot that was bad, or if any other S&B factory ammo has given any of y'all problems.
Tactical Rifle, BTW, wrote a love letter review of S&B .308 Match rifle ammo. My experience with all of their rifle ammo has been excellent. I've just never used their pistol ammo before.
Thanks for your help in advance, folks!
Matt/L.P.
[This message has been edited by Long Path (edited April 16, 2000).]
