Anyone ever use Independence Ammo?

[marm0t]

I call this ammo "Shooting Star" ammo because it always seems to shoot out a few sparks each shot. Other than that, never a problem in my XD9 Sub, and XD9 Service, over 2000 rounds.

[cubicle]

just ran though a box of 50 the other day. no problems out of my xd 40 4in

[RLLOVER]

This is probably the worst thing I will ever admit in a gun forum.

I usually never worry about how a weapon feeds for the first 100 rounds or so.

I always look for build or part flaws, cracks, chips and so on after a jam or failure, but I just blow it off as a new gun needing a little care and beating.

I've had a couple 1911's that fed like crap for awhile. Stove pipes and FTE. My wifes Sigma is still junk, er I mean, feeds like crap, uhh needs a little more breaking...in.

I've had two AR's one shot out of the box with some cleaning just fine.

The other nearly got thrown in the lake until it's 5th or sixth mag of 30. I had metal flakes all over my arms by the time it started to feed properly.

It's probably why my grandpa had me shoot and clean shoot and clean shoot and clean after every shot for so long. He said it was to break in the barrels, and that may be true. I also think it was to keep me from loosing the weapon. Probably clears up some of the tight spots that might cause feeding problems.

Short temper + long arms = empty jam(n) gun thrown loooong. distances.

[GlenncXD9]

I've had only FTE from my KAHR MK9 and zero failures from my SA XD9
Service from several hundred rounds fired. I usually use WWB.

[Texas Dominion]

So far, I've shot 200 rounds of Idependence. Seemed like every other round would FTF. Cured the problem by really choking down on my grip (my wrist hurt and my back was soreafter only 100 rnds.). Too unnatural. My 22lb spring wont even chamber the first round from the slide lock release lever position. I have to rack the slide and release as quickly as a can utilizing the spring and slide's max. potential, and thats with a polished feedramp. I've never had this happen with any other cartridge. I have to agree with jhs71 when he says it hangs on the extractor, because it looks like that if the cartridge didn't have a bullet seated at the top, it would stovepipe. Haven't tried it with the factory 18lb spring though. As for your concern with CCI, too many FTE's for me. 3 out of 50 is to often. I also found the only cure for that was significantly choking down on the grip with both Independence and CCI. I don't ever "limp wrist" when I shoot, but I literally have to death grip my XD to correct these problems.

[creepyrat]

i have fired 100 rounds of it, one failure to eject from my service no problems in the sc, i find it to be quite mild, i have 2 boxes left i should chrono some.

[demented]

With the current price of CCI Blazer, WW and Rem bulk 100 packs, I can't see any reason to shoot commercial reloads or stuff like Wolf. My guns and my body mean too much to me.

[DieTrying]

I have fired over 1500 9mm Independence rounds through my XD and well over 2000 rnds in .45 through my KP345...zero problems...ZERO!!!

[wfrazee]

Originally Posted by RLLOVER

My wifes Sigma is still junk, er I mean, feeds like crap, uhh needs a little more breaking...in.

Depending on the construction series, it may always be junk. The sigmas post-lawsuit and pre-redesign were unreliable pieces of horse dookee. You would be better advised to scoop up handfulls of the above and throw that at attackers than to trust one of those sigmas to protect you.

Supposedly, the modern run of sigmas are a bit better in terms of reliability. I still cant bring myself to buy one. Any gun that is availible at street prices of sub $300 I still have trouble trusting.