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JackRR,

I found it in stock on-line at Northwest Shooters Supply for a somewhat reasonable price of 12.94 a box. I did not know much about it, but I have since purchased a case of it based on a few of the reply's here. Should be in on Tuesday according to UPS. Very quick shipping and a breeze to deal with. Great company who still has ammo in stock...at least for now! Happy Shooting

It's good ammo. I shoot .40 S&W, and noticed the S&B to be a little hotter than the American Eagle or Georgia Arms reloads I was shooting. It was much more effective at spinning the steel rotators in John Farnam's class.

Jdh2580

I ordered ammo from Northwest last week. Mine got stuck in Colorado due to severe weather and is suppose to be here on Tuesday. The prices are good and the cost of shipping is offset by gas that would be consumed while driving to every Walmart and or Academy in the Houston area looking for ammo.

jdh2580 wrote:JackRR,

I found it in stock on-line at Northwest Shooters Supply for a somewhat reasonable price of 12.94 a box. I did not know much about it, but I have since purchased a case of it based on a few of the reply's here. Should be in on Tuesday according to UPS. Very quick shipping and a breeze to deal with. Great company who still has ammo in stock...at least for now! Happy Shooting

Thanks, I will add NW to my "ammo dealer list"

DoubleActionCHL wrote:It's good ammo. I shoot .40 S&W, and noticed the S&B to be a little hotter than the American Eagle or Georgia Arms reloads I was shooting. It was much more effective at spinning the steel rotators in John Farnam's class.

Heh! Twice I've used 180-grain S&B .40 in a long-barrel Glock in Farnam's classes. My overall favorite combination to control the steel!

And that was almost 2,000 rounds of S&B .40 just for those two courses. Over the past couple of years, I'd estimate I've shot almost 15,000 rounds of S&B FMJ in .45 ACP, .40 S&W, and 9mm. Only one box of .380, though. That was with a Kel-Tec that's never shot anything worth a flip, but the first time the Kel-Tec firing pin broke was on an S&B primer...I think it would have broken against a Snap-Cap.

Out of the other 15K rounds, I've never had a squib, or set-back, or case failure, or any other issue with the ammo itself. I'm conserving a couple of cases of .45 ACP I still have that I bought at about 10 bucks per 50.

bkjunk wrote:...While it has been accurate, I get lots of FTE's. About 3 in 50 will not extract and 3 rounds had to be removed with a pair of needle nose pliers. The case lable said '9mm luger - Range Safe Ammo - Copper plated steel case - 115 grs." ...

This is the same ammo that I use. I have not had any problems with it in my XD9 Service.