Blazer Ammo is Garbage

[Blaster229]

Finally had to break into some Blazer brass ammo I've had in order to dust off the cobwebs on my 320 Legion X Carry for my LEOSA qual tomorrow.
The left and right circles are 7 yards rapid fire.
Then I took it out to 15. JFC... Those 7 fliers are slow aimed fire. God knows what 25 yards would have been.

Mr Ed was there and I borrowed a few rounds of some American Eagle and it was just fine.
I have never experienced anything like this in all my years.
So I just shot the rest of the garbage up just to get rounds through some pistols.
Figure I'll use gold dots for my qual.
Blazer has never been any good, but I've never seen it this bad.
Mind blown.

 

[miles71]

People, students especially, don't seem to want to accept different ammo is ......well....... different. Glad you saw this before the qualification.

I just ordered a 320 compact rxp, hope it's nice and the grip isn't to small for me. If so guess I'll be ordering a carry grip.

TD

 

[MaxVO2]

Finally had to break into some Blazer brass ammo I've had in order to dust off the cobwebs on my 320 Legion X Carry for my LEOSA qual tomorrow.
The left and right circles are 7 yards rapid fire.
Then I took it out to 15. JFC... Those 7 fliers are slow aimed fire. God knows what 25 yards would have been.

Mr Ed was there and I borrowed a few rounds of some American Eagle and it was just fine.
I have never experienced anything like this in all my years.
So I just shot the rest of the garbage up just to get rounds through some pistols.
Figure I'll use gold dots for my qual.
Blazer has never been any good, but I've never seen it this bad.
Mind blown.

*****Mebbe the Blazer Ammo you used was only designed for 3 yards rapid fire testing? Sometimes, like with a wife, you get one with a bad box...

But yea... Blazer is cheap for a reason I guess. Match ammo it ain't.

 

[sleev-les]

I was using Blazer recently, through 2 different guns. Absolute garbage. I had tumblers and flyers in higher than acceptable amounts.

 

[Blaster229]

I was using Blazer recently, through 2 different guns. Absolute garbage. I had tumblers and flyers in higher than acceptable amounts.

I mean, I knew it is usually "off", but damn.

 

[Blaster229]

*****Mebbe the Blazer Ammo you used was only designed for 3 yards rapid fire testing? Sometimes, like with a wife, you get one with a bad box...

But yea... Blazer is cheap for a reason I guess. Match ammo it ain't.

All boxes are good, just some are better than others.

 

[smokey]

I have a gun that was giving me some malfunctions with ejecting brass stovepiping and only going in to battery when I reset the trigger(striker safety drag). These problems only happened with blaser. If I shot federal 147 gr target food, the gun was 100%.

I fixed the issues with that gun so that it works fine with everything now, but the malfunctions and crap accuracy turned me away from blaser. Federal is so much better quality for not much more money.

 

[jrumann59]

Blazer aluminum case is worse....

 

[Inigoes]

Based on that target, you sure scared them to death!

 

[Edwonbass]

Maybe that's why I can't hit anything with my wife's 38 snub nose. We have a bunch of Blazer for it that her uncle gave her. Of course, it's probably mostly the gun. It couldn't possibly me.

 

[Bullfrog]

Mr Ed was there and I borrowed a few rounds of some American Eagle and it was just fine.
I have never experienced anything like this in all my years.

So I just shot the rest of the garbage up just to get rounds through some pistols.
Figure I'll use gold dots for my qual.
Blazer has never been any good, but I've never seen it this bad.

Just left Bass Pro a short while ago, they had lots of range ammo in stock... Fed American Eagle, Winchester WB, Herters, etc. Since you already know the Federal works well in your 320 maybe you can save your Gold Dots.

 

[cogcon]

Blazer - used for "blazing" thru a mag dump in my SMG. Great for area suppression usage when accuracy is not a requirement.

 

[Blaster229]

Just left Bass Pro a short while ago, they had lots of range ammo in stock... Fed American Eagle, Winchester WB, Herters, etc. Since you already know the Federal works well in your 320 maybe you can save your Gold Dots.

It's ok. I can burn these Dots up. I have been carrying Critical Duty lately. Thanks for the ammo heads up tho!

 

[lazarus]

IMHO, this has been my experience with almost all "cheap" ammo for cheap calibers. 9mm, 45, 5.56/.223. Sometimes there is some manufacturer that shoots okay and I can tell a gun likes something much better than some other gun does. But for the most part, a lot of them just don't shoot that accurate. I can crank out 9mm reloads on a lee classic turret that shoots about as well or better than most very good 9mm for less than Blazer.

My .223 62gr reloads shoot better than any "mil spec" 5.56 or plinking 223. My 20" groups 3-4" with the various M193, M855 and .223 55/62gr stuff. An exception is it seems to shoot IMI around 2.5MOA. But my "no care taken" 62gr reloads on my lee turret press using Armscor 62gr bullets shoots around 2MOA. And on my 16", well it shoots most stuff 3-5MOA, but my reloads shoot about 2.5MOA. Of course match, my reloads aren't there. But I run 69gr RMR with some more care using same case and my 20" shoots around 1MOA and my 16" around 2MOA. Which is about on par with nice match ammo like Hornady Black 75gr.

PS my Glock 19 doesn't like WWB 115gr. It patterns like you saw at 15yds.

 

[E.Shell]

I used to use Blazer aluminum-cased ammo for my daughter and I to shoot competitions. I had plenty decent ammo, but viewed these matches as learning opportunities and neither of us really cared how we scored. My daughter and I both got quite proficient at clearing malfs.

It was hilarious when Lou came up to me at one of the Mayberry matches, shaking one of my daughter's mags at me say "This is why she is having so much trouble with her gun, it's this sh!t ammo you're giving her!!" I pulled one of my own mags with the same sh!t ammo and started shaking it back at him. Once I explained that this was a training exercise for us, he was OK, but still a little irritated with me for causing her to have to fix her pistol during almost every magazine.

Good times, miss old Lou.

 

[RFBfromDE]

Blazer aluminum case is worse....

I've had no problems with the brass.

I just don't do aluminum or steel.

 

[welder516]

I always blame the ammo. Lmao.

 

[Reloader]

Maybe the cat pissed on the blazer

 

[teratos]

Rookie excuse. Blame the ammo.

 

[Goldslammer]

I buy Blazer ammo for the price, not the quality. I'm just happy when I don't end up with a handful of misfires from it.