Beware of Chinese ammo !!

More info on the ammo would be helpful... That looks like a xtp bullet sitting there, I can't think of a chinese manufacturer that loads xtps.\


Being it is an xtp, a highly popular bullet for reloaders, im going to lean towards a handloading issue. I could be way off but most of the time this is the case.

Again with this picture.

This picture is old, it has been passed around quite a bit and the ammo has been called Chinese, reloads, comercial ammo, and just about everything else.

Be weary of cheap ammo loaded by shady characters, but me more weary of pictures sent to your email.

Can you even buy Chinese ammo in the U.S. anymore? I don't believe so... This is just more xenophobic propaganda.

Ouch!

This pic has been going around for YEARS.

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This pic has been going around for YEARS

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Totally agree.

Show me ANY Chinese made 44 mag ammo.....ever!

Back in the 90's I shot many thousands of rounds of Chinese Ammo and while some of it was lacking in the accuracy department, I never had a "kaboom". While I respect those who want to "buy American" I find a lot of the sentiment against Russian and Chinese ammo has to do with ethnic and ideological factors.

So I should question the provenance of the email photos of a sea serpent in the local lake too?

Nessie is real............

BUY A COLT!

(I had to... could not help it, lack of self restraint.)

"BUY A COLT!

(I had to... could not help it, lack of self restraint.) "



HAAA.... Its sure to go out of timeing long before it has a Kaboom

And to the OP yeah the pic has been floating around for a long while with many different claims

Yeah, that's an old picture. The original was a lithograph passed around to beware of dat new smokeless powder.

Looks like something my jack-wagon uncle would get after years of shooting compressed loads in his guns for the effect. The only good thing I can say about his habit was that he wouldn't let anyone else shoot nor would he sell or trade these fatigued pistols.

I know he's destroyed his share of Rugers and Colts in that way and with the "luck of the idiot", lives/shoots and reloads still.

I know a Chinese guy at our club who likes to make very hot reloads for his Rugers.

I'd never but ammo from China. I heard they found lead in it !

Chinese ammo hasn't been imported for what, at least a decade? If anything, you shouldn't shoot it since it's semi-collectible.

As far as I know, they only produced standard military calibers with ball loads and not magnum handgun JHP's.

Probably would have amounted to little more than a fart in a Ruger...

Wouldnt mind betting some one with a progressive loader dropped either a double charge of powder, or more likely had two bullets crammed in the case and REALLY compressed the powder. Thats is the most likely scenario, to get to the type of pressures in the pictures. It was probably a reload. Yes seen the photos before and expect to see them again many times LOL
Night night all
Roger

While I respect those who want to "buy American" I find a lot of the sentiment against Russian and Chinese ammo has to do with ethnic and ideological factors

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No xenophobia here...

The pics might be old, but it still makes me shiver.

As John Wayne said in "Big Jake", "This ostentatious display might save some poor miscreant's life - maybe our own."

The pics might be old, but it still makes me shiver.

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There's a picture of a Ruger in similar condition floating around somewhere...

Seems like the revolver did its job. When it failed it vented in a safe direction and protected the shooter.

Like any well designed firearm should.

BSW