CCI Ammo

[torpeau]

I was at the range last week and someone two lanes over came over and asked what I was shooting. I hold him pistols using 9MM Mak ammo and he told me he was shooting a Mak and was having ammo problems. It was a Hungarian pistol, but wasn't two-tone like a PA-63 and I couldn't read the writing on it. I explained to him that his wasn't a Mak and traded 3 Silver Bears for 3 rounds of his. I thought I'd show him how easily my P-64 would digest his ammo.

Well, it didn't. The first round wouldn't feed so I spent a minute dislodging the round and taking the other two out of the magazine. I ended up taking the 3 rounds home and they are CCIs with aluminum cases. It's not hard to see that the bullets in all 3 rounds are sunk to different depths in the cases. In my 4 months of 9x18 experience, I had never seen this ammo and if those 3 rounds are representative, I won't be looking to find any.

[fritzhund]

I would check his pistol for clear markings. It might be a .380 and not a 9x18 Makarov chambered pistol.

Please read the recent "Dumb Question of the month post".

Just my humble opinion, but PLEASE BE SAFE!

[mikeh1]

A friend had bought some aluminum cased CCI in .357 Mag and we noticed that the bullets were all at different heights. No big deal with a revolver, but not so good with a semi-auto.

[blinddog]

Hey, I use to shoot CCi in my 1911 with no problems. I used some lawman for a while and it was excellent. I bought some CCI Brass and I constantly have feeding problems with it. Now I have 4 boxes of ammo that is IMHO junk. I think that the QC persons job has been outsoursed to some other country.

[barnett3006]

I bought some of the aluminum cased CCI in .38 Special once. It fired fine, but after half a box there was about a pound of lead left in the bore of my snuby.

[gypsydavy]

I am not crazy about CCI either. I have shot 50 rounds of HP and 50 rounds of FMJ through my 64. No problems feeding, but then again my 64 seems to swallow and spit any ammo I feed it.

When I first got my 64 I bought as many kinds of ammo as I could find. Before firing I closely examined ammo for quality of workmanship as I was afraid of feeding issues. My observation was that CCI was the roughest, most uneven looking of the bunch which included Barnaul, MFS, Silver Bear, S&B etc.

Again, I don't worry about feed issues, I stay away from CCI because it's $16 a box vs MFS at $10. And the MFS comes in brass. Those paper thin CCI shells make me nervous!

Happy New Year!
David.

[gunneyrabbit]

I quit using their ammo about five years ago for the very same reason's. Their .380 ammo constantly jammed up my Llama Micromax when everything else that I bought worked like a charm. The wad cutters would also dislodge and lock up the cylinder of my Taurus model 85.
G.R.

[donnerwetter58]

+1 on the MFS ammo available from SOG. The price is very reasonable and it's Boxer primed brass cases are just the ticket for reloaders.

[carguy]

I believe CCI is what I was shooting over the summer when I got a pierced primer and blew off a piece of my CZ-82's firing pin!

I stick with Silver Bear and Privi Partizan.

Just my 2 cents.

[dfunk]

I've shot CCI (brass and alum) with zero issues, in a P-64, Glock 19, S&W 9mm, and most recently an XD-40 (which has become my favorite by far <-- and the most dangerous if the bullets are seated too far in (high pressures of the .40)).
Re-chambering rounds too much can force the bullet further down in the case than it should be, which could have been part of the problem.
It still could have been a PA-63, even if it's not a duo-tone version. You can't call it out only because of color. Anyway, be safe.