Trying to get best ideas for my target/practice and self/home defense ammo to use. Fired some Fiocchi range and some CCI Blazer both 115g and had great experience. But, when I went with Turan 124g HP, I got to learn how to clear a malfuntion very quickly when the round lodged itself in the chamber and had me force rack it to clear. What reccomendations do y’all have?
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I would try to stick to what ammo gives you the best performance with least malfunction. Being that you experienced one at the range with Turan (don’t know the quality of that brand), buy some Snap Caps in the caliber of your firearm so when you are dry fire practicing at home, you practice dry firing and clearing your firearm as you point, shoot, clear, point, shoot, clear…etc.. In a real situation, you may never know if you’ll hear BANG or a CLICK 
and training how to QUICKLY CLEAR and get back into battery is crucial when milliseconds count!
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Great answer 
FWIW, I personally believe the tolerance stack-up of the individual components in your individual gun is a larger contributor to what ammo works best than what brand or model you have.
An example - my friend and I both have Springfield EMP-4 pistols we purchased within a couple months of each other somewhere around 2020 when 9mm was scarce and expensive. My friend bought 500 rounds and he felt like he had bought a jam-o-matic. The same ammo fired flawless out of mine. The problem followed the gun regardless of the shooter. I traded some of my stockpile for his and problem resolved.
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If memory serves, this is a relatively new firearm? I’ve found rounds down range help with tolerance to lesser quality ammo.
SD ammo, I’m a Gold Dot Guy for pretty much all my EDC’s.
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@TNPhil ,
Any good quality ammo will run through CZ P10C.
Fiocchi and Blazer are great choice, but you can shoot these as well:
- Blazer Aluminum
- Sellier & Bellot
- Aguila
- Herters
- CCI / Federal Independence
- Wolf
- BPS
- ZSR
- Norma
- Geco
These above never jammed.
Turan is one of the worst ammo I’ve ever shot. It even jammed my 1911 and Staccato handguns. However it worked great after I cleaned each bullet with Acetone 
For SD - I always recommend Speer Gold Dot G2 HP
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Careful with that!!! Hard to hear any sound with hearing protection…
BE AWARE!!!
BUT if you have the good protection stuff that amplifies sound but cuts loud stuff…
and you hear a very light sorta pop…
OR you feel a slight something when you pull the trigger…
STOP!!! check the brass for a bullet!!!
if no bullet you probably have a squib/dud load and may very well have a round stuck in the barrel!!!
with some of the factory stuff now a days… gotta pay attention!!!
helps avoid hand, eye, etc… and firearm damage
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Absolutely, Good point!!! Always be aware if something didn’t go right and stop, check the firearm before attempting to fire the next round! 
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This is a very good point, especially at a busy range, with a lot of shots going off at one. One time I was doing a typical timed drill I do with my revolver of two fast shots center mass, and one head. Going fast, at a loud range, I didn’t notice that the second center mass shot didn’t sound or feel quite right, and as I moved up to the head shot and pressed the trigger, it was only then I realized the gun was locked up tight.
I had a squib stuck between the cylinder and forcing cone. Had it made it a little further forward, I would have ended up firing a shot right into the squib, and had a real mess on my hands. Fortunately the gunsmith just pushed the bullet back enough to open the cylinder and all was good.
This was back during the last great ammo shortage, maybe around 2021, and I was using “professional” reloads from a place called Mountain City Supply. I gave away the rest of the reloads to a guy at the range who seemed willing to try them, knowing full well about the squib I just got, and I made a vow to only buy decent quality, new ammo from then on.
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I stick with the tried and true brands like Speer LE Gold Dot and Federal LE Tactical HST for defensive carry. I also recommend that you run at least a box of 50 rounds on the range of whatever SD ammo you plan on carrying to see how it performs in your firearm(s).
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Defense: Any Federal HST and Speer Gold Dot 124+P
Range? Anything factory new that is not winchester or the green/white Rem/UMC (I’m partial to Federal and CCI/Speer in general)
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I guess I’m one of the few that hasn’t had a terrible experience with the W White Box Stuff.
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All is about the firearm used, not WWB. 
I remember shooting 9mm Winchester ammo long time ago, but it was packed in plain white boxes of 50 rds. I thought that’s a WWB. And yes, it gave me some problems with firing it .
Recently I shot over 2k of “Winchester Target & Practice” without single issue.
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In that case Glock, H&K, Walther, and Smith and Wesson are all junk
J/K, I know it’s the winchester. No gun is going to be reliable on ammo that is substantially longer COAL than SAAMI spec, or has so little powder the bullet drops a foot before hitting a target 7 yards away with a little pfft and no slide movement, or has a case so warped the primer is recessed beyond the reach of any real life firing pin/striker, or crimp so weak the bullets are jumping it while in the mag of a semi auto, to name but some of the winchester pistol ammo failures I have personally encountered
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I agree with only one… cannot say the name… but it starts with letter G
I actually shot those rounds with CZ P01 and have issues.
But the problem was with ammo indeed.
There was 3 of us, Instructors, running the class and each of us had “click, no bang” with different handguns.
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That’s pretty darn definitive, eh
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