Fiocchi ammo

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Bought a box of the stuff today to give it a try. It was about $12 a box cheeper then everything else they had. Has anyone ever used it and is it any good?
 
They make some of the best target grade shotgun ammo, I would try their handgun ammo if I could find any.
 
Did you check the bullets to make sure they would feed into your gun.

A fellow I know ordered some 380 ammo for his store. Customer bought some and brought them back. For some reason they would not feed all the way into the gun chamber (KEL-TEC 380). Every box he received was like that, so he is sending them back to Fiocchi.

Could be the gun.... My Dan Wesson 45 acp is picky too, can't shoot a certain brand of new personal protection ammo, yet it would feed right into a few other brands of 45 pistols.....I guess it boils down to tighter gun tolerances.
 
I believe Fiocchi is the only shotgun shell my father-in-law will shoot. He's quite the skeet champ. I've never used their bullets, though.
 
Grizzly Johnson said:
Did you check the bullets to make sure they would feed into your gun.

A fellow I know ordered some 380 ammo for his store. Customer bought some and brought them back. For some reason they would not feed all the way into the gun chamber (KEL-TEC 380). Every box he received was like that, so he is sending them back to Fiocchi.

Could be the gun.... My Dan Wesson 45 acp is picky too, can't shoot a certain brand of new personal protection ammo, yet it would feed right into a few other brands of 45 pistols.....I guess it boils down to tighter gun tolerances.
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Mine is for a revolver so hopfully that won't be an issue. Taking it out this weekend, I'll let everyone know how it does.
 
Grizzly Johnson said:
Could be the gun.... My Dan Wesson 45 acp is picky too, can't shoot a certain brand of new personal protection ammo, yet it would feed right into a few other brands of 45 pistols.....I guess it boils down to tighter gun tolerances.
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If you don't mind what brand and load????

It ain't uncommon to have a fickle 1911. esp with some bullet types or loads.
 
Tiny said:
Grizzly Johnson said:
Could be the gun.... My Dan Wesson 45 acp is picky too, can't shoot a certain brand of new personal protection ammo, yet it would feed right into a few other brands of 45 pistols.....I guess it boils down to tighter gun tolerances.
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If you don't mind what brand and load????

It ain't uncommon to have a fickle 1911. esp with some bullet types or loads.
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I can't remember the brand and load. It is fairly new. It is supposed to fragment upon impact. Specifically for personal protection such as in a home. It is supposed to fragment so that people on the other side of the room wall would not be in as much danger than if a solid type bullet that went through the wall. Supposedly you can shoot it inside a jetliner and it won't pass through the wall. I will be going back by my friends store and will get the brand and load.... They come in a blister package of 8 I believe.
 
I was about to start a new thread and found this one. I'm looking at trying some Fiocchi .223 ammo for a bolt rifle. Anyone have any experience. It looks like it's considerably cheaper than any other option on MidwayUSA. The reviews online seem favorable.

I'm a bit cautious because I bought a couple of boxes of Monarch FMJ ammo from Academy. It was all they had at the time. It does NOT feed correctly. I was surprised to have that issue in a bolt rifle. I recently bought a box of Hornady Whitetail just to test if the issue might be with the Monarch ammo. The Hornday ammo does feed correctly.
 
tahtah said:
I was about to start a new thread and found this one. I'm looking at trying some Fiocchi .223 ammo for a bolt rifle. Anyone have any experience. It looks like it's considerably cheaper than any other option on MidwayUSA. The reviews online seem favorable.

I'm a bit cautious because I bought a couple of boxes of Monarch FMJ ammo from Academy. It was all they had at the time. It does NOT feed correctly. I was surprised to have that issue in a bolt rifle. I recently bought a box of Hornady Whitetail just to test if the issue might be with the Monarch ammo. The Hornday ammo does feed correctly.
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Was the ammo 223 Rem or 5.56 NATO? A lot of guns with 223 chambers, especially older ones, have problems with some 5.56 ammo. The issue is the 223 chamber is cut to tighter tolerances and has a slightly shorter throat than a 5.56 chamber. Specs for 5.56 ammo are also more generous than 223. Tolerance stacking is a thing. Most manufacturers now use 223 Wilde chamber reamers, or just use 5.56 chamber reamers to avoid this.

The only Fiocchi ammo I ever tried was some 22WMR several years ago. It was a bit more accurate, at least in my gun, than anything else I tried, but way lower velocity, which kind of defeated the purpose of shooting 22WMR vs 22LR.
 
16 years...wow, is that a new record?? 😂

Ive never tried their pistol or rifle ammo, but have tried the shotgun ammo.
Never again. It functioned fine, just didn't pattern/shoot well in my gun.
 

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