Magtech ammo?

telpinaro

telpinaro

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I've heard both good things and bad things about it... Since money's tight and I could find it, I bought a few boxes in .357 magnum. I shot around 20 rounds of it (before I got fed up) and about half of them didn't fire! Literally, about every other one... no bang. I switched to a box of Remington and everything went perfectly. Anyone else have any issues with Magtech? Is it worth me trying to shoot the rest, or is it a lost cause?

Oh, and yes, they were stored correctly. Right next to the box of Remington.
 
I have every now and again but have never had a problem with it. I did have that problem with seller and bellot .357 out of my 686. My gunsmith replaced the pin on the hammer with a longer one and told me they had hard primers. since then it has always went bang even using the same ammo.
 
3gunshooter said:
I have every now and again but have never had a problem with it. I did have that problem with seller and bellot .357 out of my 686. My gunsmith replaced the pin on the hammer with a longer one and told me they had hard primers. since then it has always went bang even using the same ammo.
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Interesting. I could definitely tell the primers had been hit, just nothing happened. Maybe I'll try that if issues keep coming up, but the Chiappa Rhino is pretty rare still... I'll wait til there's more gunsmiths that have worked on it!
 
I've run Magtech in .32 S&W Long, .40 ACP, and .45 ACP without problems. There are always some guns that are picky about their ammo and this could be a case.
 
Seller & Bellot are a sister company of magtech. They do have hard primers, but I've shoot thousands of them in 9mm and .45 and they work great.
Also herters brass is their other sister company
 
Good to know. Rhinos are rather sensitive for revolvers, so could just be it doesn't like it. If I didn't love it sooo much..!
 
3gunshooter said:
I have every now and again but have never had a problem with it. I did have that problem with seller and bellot .357 out of my 686. My gunsmith replaced the pin on the hammer with a longer one and told me they had hard primers. since then it has always went bang even using the same ammo.
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Both S&B and Magtech are made by the same company (CBC?, I think. It's a Brazilian company.) They do have harder primers, but I've never had an issue with Magtech. I've shot probably 8-900 Magtech 9mm through my G-26 and everyone has gone bang. Only shot about 100 of their .357 but still, they all worked.
 
I've had no problem running Magtech in Glock or Sig semi-auto, nor in S&W revolver.

However, like some have said, some firearms are picky with the ammo that they feed through. This may be the case with you, especially since the Remington worked fine.

I have a .22 conversion for my G23 and in the literature they actually states which .22LR works best and which ones to avoid. So this isn't an uncommon problem.
 
S&B is actually Czech I believe. They work great, but just know that S&B is borderline +P, but as long as you have a quality firearm, shouldn't be a problem. I think 1300 fps for factory ammo
 
wolf_fire said:
I've had no problem running Magtech in Glock or Sig semi-auto, nor in S&W revolver.

However, like some have said, some firearms are picky with the ammo that they feed through. This may be the case with you, especially since the Remington worked fine.

I have a .22 conversion for my G23 and in the literature they actually states which .22LR works best and which ones to avoid. So this isn't an uncommon problem.
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I have a Chiappa 1911-22. Dad had one also. The president of the gun shop has one also. Of the three, mine only likes certain ammo. The other two run whatever you feed them. Can't find anything that really is different in them other than mine has tighter tolerances so it is picky. His Rhino ( Chiappa made ) could just need a hammer polished or a shim washer in front of the cylinder.
 
beachbum17 said:
S&B is actually Czech I believe. They work great, but just know that S&B is borderline +P, but as long as you have a quality firearm, shouldn't be a problem. I think 1300 fps for factory ammo
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S&B is Czech made ammo, Magtech is made in Brazil. Both are owned by CBC Group.
 
S&W645 said:
I have a Chiappa 1911-22. Dad had one also. The president of the gun shop has one also. Of the three, mine only likes certain ammo. The other two run whatever you feed them. Can't find anything that really is different in them other than mine has tighter tolerances so it is picky. His Rhino ( Chiappa made ) could just need a hammer polished or a shim washer in front of the cylinder.
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Odd. I'll look in to that next year after the warranty expires. It's back at the gunsmith right now, so maybe it'll be better when I get it back.
 
I've never had an issue with Magtech... I've used their .380acp, 9mm, .45acp, and .38Spl with no issues.

However, isn't S&B Czech ammo? Or am I thinking of something else? With that, I had issues with their .45acp in my Thompson... the "hotter" loadings caused the bolt to lock to the rear every other round or two (just switched ammo, no problems). I did love their .30-06 loadings... HOT stuff! It was actually flattening the primers in my Browning Safari...
 
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