PSA To Start Manufacture of Steel Cased Comblok Ammunition

[3MTA3]

But, then what do you do with it?

Chalk outline in your driveway, a little red stain and a pile spent shells. Keeps the unwanted salesmen and other criminals away.

 

[msgriff]

I truly doubt PSA is making this ammo themselves. Pretty much everything they sell is made under contract by someone else. I live a few miles away from their corporate office and their flagship store is my LGS. They get really vague when you ask questions about their branded stuff and seldom have their own items in stock. Someone is making ammo for PSA.

They have built, and are still building, an ammunitions manufacturing complex in Columbia SC from the ground up. This also includes a primer production facility which is scheduled to go online in about a year.

 

[Flopsweat]

... What I really hate is .380 brass hidden among all the 9mm.
Sorry. Had to throw that in there.

Everyone hates that. Even the .380 shooters.

 

[Mikej]

Everyone hates that. Even the .380 shooters.

Luckily it's a distinct feel during sizing 9mm. On the Rock Chucker anyway.

 

[3MTA3]

Everyone hates that. Even the .380 shooters.

I thought everybody hated .380 shooters because .380. Now you tell me it's just the brass?

 

[Flopsweat]

I thought everybody hated .380 shooters because .380. Now you tell me it's just the brass?

I don't know anything about any high-ranking officers. I didn't even know it was a military thing.

 

[solv3nt]

I thought everybody hated .380 shooters because .380. Now you tell me it's just the brass?

I don't like 380 because it's a watered down 9mm round that costs MORE!

 

[3MTA3]

I don't like 380 because it's a watered down 9mm round that costs MORE!

And it only blows a lung halfway out

 

[wired]

And it only blows a lung halfway out

One lung or half of two?

 

[3MTA3]

One lung or half of two?

Depends if you are holding the pistol normally or gangsta style

 

[ditchtiger]

But, then what do you do with it?

Scatter them around some school yards.

 

[wired]

Scatter them around some school yards.

My wife watches the neighborhood facebook page. Once a week or so some Karen gets all alarmed because they find a few 9mm shells on the street. Of course theyre probably falling out of the back of my truck.

 

[foxmeadow]

Luckily it's a distinct feel during sizing 9mm. On the Rock Chucker anyway.

The rim is slightly smaller, and the shell plate on my Dillon rips the rim off on the sizing die part of the cycle, leaving the case stuck in the sizing die. Much donation to the swear jar.

 

[quneur]

I truly doubt PSA is making this ammo themselves. Pretty much everything they sell is made under contract by someone else. I live a few miles away from their corporate office and their flagship store is my LGS. They get really vague when you ask questions about their branded stuff and seldom have their own items in stock. Someone is making ammo for PSA.

As long as its not Winchester I'm okay with it.

 

[kmk1012]

I've personally seen 380 FMJ bounce back from wooden targets. That's all I ever needed to see. Even 32 ACP would penetrate the block, probably due to the smaller metplat/surface area but I'd rather have a pocket knife over a 380.

 

[Mikej]

The rim is slightly smaller, and the shell plate on my Dillon rips the rim off on the sizing die part of the cycle, leaving the case stuck in the sizing die. Much donation to the swear jar.

I find that interesting? Because I know immediately something's up on the down stroke. I've probably only run into a dozen or so .380 cases in the 11 years I've been loading. I always think "split case" when it happens. And I haven't hardly any split case that made it to the press. Dropping the ram is much easier than on a 9mm case. In your case you must have a slight difference in your shell holder that I don't have in my Lee #5 shell holder?