[dalereed]

How good is the foreign ammo that aimsurplus sells, they seem to have the best prices?

I'm hurting for .45 & .38.

[proudtobeanamerican1]

Walmart has similar prices......For example:

Winchester 40 s&W 100 Trget Practice 28.00
50 at a gun show was 16.00

Winchester 40 S&W 50 Hollow Point 22.00 Gun show
20.00 Walmart

Remington Dicks 40 S&W Target Practice 20.00 (.25% off 15.00)

I noticed the 9mm ammo is half that price.

For the guy that posted.....since noone put a price on it.

I just saw .40,.45, and 9mm Taurus 24/7 Compact Semi Automatic (Great Handgun) 2 cartridges 370.00 at the gunshow. 450 at Gander Mountain.

[proudtobeanamerican1]

Sorry...I have found .45 and .40 are the same price on ammo, maybe a little higher on .45.

I believe the 38 would be close to the 9mm. Don’t quote me on that though.

[Sender]

If it's noncorrosive ammo from 1970 or newer it's probably good stuff, at least for practice. 45 hardball is OK for actual carry, 38 special hardball is not so much. The 45 makes enough shock and awe to be a manstopper even with hardball. The 38 should be hollowpoints. 9mm should be hollowpoints. With any caliber, practice makes perfect, so any cheap ammo is valuable. Burn that surplus stuff up at the range until you can hit with it, then shoot a mag or two of expensive carry ammo and make sure you can hit with it and that the gun is reliable with it. Then carry the expensive hollowpoints.

I was function testing a SIG P6 with Fiocchi hardball ammo, and it fed and functioned perfectly, with good accuracy. Then I switched to +P Ranger Talon ammo, and I kept getting the action locked open. I thought it was jamming with the radical hollowpoints, but I found that the increased recoil was causing my hand to bump the slide lock up so it was locked open. I had to modify my grip so I wouldn't touch the slide release during recoil. These are the sort of things you learn during practice.