Remember these? Amtech Ammo

Retired Guy · Jun 5, 2020

For the next round of "Stump the Dummy", I present to you Amtech Ammo. Does anyone remember these?

I was cleaning out another box in my garage and found these. Came out in the early 90s in 38 Special and 9mm. I think they were around for about a year before quietly folding.

DizzyJ · Jun 5, 2020

That's cool!

Lasers · Jun 5, 2020

Might want to keep that together! Some of those short run rounds have some decent collector value!

Lasers · Jun 5, 2020

158gr, dang

Retired Guy · Jun 5, 2020

I have about 3/4 of a box right now. The idea behind them was that the cases were cheaper to produce. A box of 38 Special ammo was selling for $5 (wholesale) versus $7 of brass ammo.

The case is reloadable but you had to buy the primed aluminum portions from the company. That killed it for most people. Slightly cheaper than Blazer aluminum.

I did try to reload the cases. Let me just say it was NOT one of my better ideas...

nammac · Jun 5, 2020

I remember those, the cases were he!! to clean

umrek · Jun 5, 2020

I think it's been tried a few different times over the years. I purchased a case of red polymer cased 223 about 10 years ago that ran fine as long as they didnt meet any resistance feeding. When they did, the bullets set back drastically because they just didnt have the neck tension needed. But revolver ammo wouldn't have that issue!

Here's another example:
True Velocity's New Polymer-cased Ammunition

DizzyJ · Jun 5, 2020

umrek said:
I think it's been tried a few different times over the years. I purchased a case of red polymer cased 223 about 10 years ago that ran fine as long as they didnt meet any resistance feeding. When they did, the bullets set back drastically because they just didnt have the neck tension needed. But revolver ammo wouldn't have that issue!

Here's another example:
True Velocity's New Polymer-cased Ammunition

I suppose you could have bullet "pull" problems with recoil with a revolver.