In our searches for the best price on ammunition I'm sure plenty of us have found our way to Freedom Munitions. Well I did, and with $0.21/round 9mm I couldn't pass up a case of 500. Though they do also sell cases of 1000 at the same price per round.
Now I don't have anything fancy like a chronograph, nor do I have a lot of experience, but I can at least give my impressions as I go through the case.
I went with the basic remanufactured 115gr. 9mm round nose FMJ. The price was good, and since it was my first order I got free shipping. I ordered on Friday June 27 and received the shipment on Tuesday July 8. So not too fast, but not bad for having been ordered on a Friday and having a holiday in the middle. And nothing beats delivery straight to my door.
It came in a pretty standard shipping box. With 10 boxes of 50 rounds each. The missing one I took to the range before taking the photos.
The box did have some wear and tear from coming half way across the country care of UPS. Thankfully, all of the 50 round boxes were in good condition. No loose ammo here!
Each individual box was also marked clearly with the information, I'm assuming they just pull them of the shelves and package them separately for different count orders.
Now, to the actual rounds. They are all clearly recycled brass with various blemishes on the sides, here's a selection of 10 randomly pulled from a box. (if you look closely you can see me in the bullets)
And all have different manufacturer markings around the primers. But looked to be in good condition.
As far as shooting goes, I put them through a new Smith & Wesson M&P 9 full size (4 and a quarter inch barrel). So new it had only had 100 rounds of Winchester White Box through it. Well that and the test round in Massachusetts. I didn't notice much of a difference between them and the WBB a week ago. The biggest thing was that they seemed to be a whole lot cleaner. Even counting for the 50 round difference I wasn't covered with nearly as much soot and blowback as with the WWB, and it took me a substantial shorter amount of time to clean my pistol, three swabs as compared to nine. Whatever particulate was left was also much smaller.
Not a single misfire or FTF or FTE. And nice clean holes in the paper. The groupings were fairly consistent, well as consistent as I could make them, and there were no fliers. I've been shooting at 20' just to get used to the handling side of things, I'll start pushing it out next week.
I do plan to update/edit this as I go through the case. Right now I figure one box a week will keep me shooting for a while. And I might go out and purchase some other ammunition to compare it against.
[Edit 7/17]Added in what I was shooting them through, M&P9 and how they were accuracy wise.
[Edit 7/23]
went to the range yesterday and went through the second box of 50. Same as before, everything shot clean and accurate.
No misfires or bad primers. Double checked to make sure all of the bullets were properly seated in the casings as I loaded them. All were secure.
Surprised by how clean they shot again. It took me six patches to clean my whole piece. And it could've been fewer but I wanted to see where most of the build up was. Mostly it was at the chamber end of the barrel and against the striker. Again no large particles in the barrel like after shooting WWB.
[Edit 9/22] After 3 months I've finally finished off my 500 rounds. In all of those I had only one round with any type of anomaly, a Crimped primer. Everything else was just fine. Shot clean and as straight as I could. Even put a few dozen in a friend's Glock 17 gen. 4 and another friend's Beretta 92fs,they all liked them just fine. I've found my range ammo for sure and recommend them to anyone looking at an alternative to WWB or cheap Eastern European stuff.
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