I've been using this stuff as my match ammo for the last year or so and have had pretty good luck with it: Sterling 9mm
It's not as hard on the magazine liners and the old wolf/tula steel, feeds well and is just a touch lighter than usual steel case 115gr FMJ (so basically on par with normal commercial 9mm brass loadings).
In the pre-plague (2015-2019) era wolf/tula I get 2-3 failures per case with just hard primers that will go off on the 2nd strike. I think I've only had 2 out of 40k rounds that won't go off on the 2nd and subsequently never did go off after repeated attempts.
With the sterling I've had no failures in the first case but today about half way through the 2nd case I had my first one. It was an under powered round.
Watching the video you can see the slide only went about 1/2 way back, enough to recock the striker but not enough to eject the case. I'm target focused with the dot so I saw the hole appear and after the *click* I just clear it and finish the stage. Cost me 1 position overall with that added time, but that's not too bad. I'm happy for the real-time verification of my malfunction clearing skills.
It's not as hard on the magazine liners and the old wolf/tula steel, feeds well and is just a touch lighter than usual steel case 115gr FMJ (so basically on par with normal commercial 9mm brass loadings).
In the pre-plague (2015-2019) era wolf/tula I get 2-3 failures per case with just hard primers that will go off on the 2nd strike. I think I've only had 2 out of 40k rounds that won't go off on the 2nd and subsequently never did go off after repeated attempts.
With the sterling I've had no failures in the first case but today about half way through the 2nd case I had my first one. It was an under powered round.
Watching the video you can see the slide only went about 1/2 way back, enough to recock the striker but not enough to eject the case. I'm target focused with the dot so I saw the hole appear and after the *click* I just clear it and finish the stage. Cost me 1 position overall with that added time, but that's not too bad. I'm happy for the real-time verification of my malfunction clearing skills.
