JohnH556 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Has anyone had any experience with Freedom Munitions 40 Cal ammo in a 1911. Just picked up a Sig Max in 40 and was looking for to pick up some reliable factory ammo until I can get set up to load 40. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WidowsSon683 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 It runs great through my custom limited gun and my XDm 5.25. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy42 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 I had a lot of issues with their reman .40 in my XDm, but I know others that have had great success with it. I have gone to a different ammo supplier since, but Freedom certainly has their fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WidowsSon683 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 (edited) I had a lot of issues with their reman .40 in my XDm, but I know others that have had great success with it. I have gone to a different ammo supplier since, but Freedom certainly has their fans. What kind of issues were you having? That's all I buy is the reman cause im cheap. Edited August 21, 2015 by WidowsSon683 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalmBeach1 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 (edited) Not a big fan of thier ammo, either reman or new. I don't have a .40, so have never shot that, but have shot thier 9 and 10mm and not very impressed. Their 10 is not even a warmed up .40. My GF has a Kimber Micro and Sig P238 which eats any .380 ammo we feed it, all except for Freedom. Both guns literally choke on it. Edited August 21, 2015 by PalmBeach1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy42 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 I had a lot of issues with their reman .40 in my XDm, but I know others that have had great success with it. I have gone to a different ammo supplier since, but Freedom certainly has their fans. What kind of issues were you having? That's all I buy is the reman cause im cheap. Some of this was mag related because I ran into some issues with ammo until I replaced my mag springs. However, after doing so I still had failure to feeds, primers fall off, terrible accuracy. All of which disappeared when I switch ammo to someone else, only thing that didn't happen was a squib load. Given the rep of Freedom I was thoroughly disappointed with what I got. Some people I shoot with have never had a problem so I am hopeful my experience was unique. I also had a couple primers pop off on ignition with new .223 from them. I am very happy with what I run now, but I will never buy Freedom again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wsmitty01 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Used over 1000 rounds NO PROBLEMS with reman!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bockerSV Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Their reman runs fine through my Edge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakman Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 I bought a couple cases of their "blaster" .40 for practice. I've not had any issues in either of my 2011s. They're a good bit stouter than my match loads, but I figure that's a good thing to practice with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWallace Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 I've not had any issues with them and I've definitely shot my fair share (close to 5K probably?). Personally though, their loads for .40 are lacking in the OAL department (most of the ammo I've gotten has been about 1.122-1.126, which is pretty short compared to a lot of other ammo and "spec" OAL. I also don't like that their loads are well above PF and rather inconsistent at that. But that's my personal opinion and YMMV with what you get. I'm also not a fan of their customer service, or lack there of. To answer your question, yes I've shot them and yes they did the job I needed them to do. But will I buy from them again? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete627 Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 > snip < Personally though, their loads for .40 are lacking in the OAL department (most of the ammo I've gotten has been about 1.122-1.126, which is pretty short compared to a lot of other ammo > snip < That's interesting ... I bought 5 boxes to break in a new gun and get some startup brass to begin reloading the caliber ... and ... all the boxes test sampled at 1.125-1.127 except for the last one ... and as you can see in the photo the one being measured is 1.121 or so ... This was a shock to me so I actually measured about 20 of them and a few showed up a tad shorter ... none longer than 1.122. Test rounds out of the first box chronoed 997 (OK ... 1000) and are a little hotter than "I" need to shoot in a match (180PF) ... but ... they all went bang and were not unpleasant to shoot. They did their job inexpensively ... not bad if you need something to get your setup going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southpaw Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 I know lots of people like them, but I won't buy from them. They blew up one of my friend's guns and I know he's not the only one that's happened to... Prior to my friend's gun KBing he talked me into trying some of their ammo since he loved it so much and it caused malfunctions in 2 different guns that both previously hadn't had a single malfunction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LegionShooter Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 I shoot with a guy from work who uses it for steel challenge and USPSA through his Glock. Seems to like it just fine and I've not seen him have any issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WidowsSon683 Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION. THis IS FACTORY STYLE AMMO. NOT LONG LOADED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfalcon00 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 That's too bad. I buy from their sister company xtreme and have been very happy with them. I've never ran the freedom stuff though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashDodson Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 I have shot nothing but freedom 9mm in my xdm 5.25. Never had a squib or ejection issues or anything. I shoot their 147 grain Reman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenDragon64 Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 I ordered a case of it and had a few pieces of brass that were split from the mouth to the web. I'm not buying from them again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EngelMacher Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 Not sure about the .40 specifically, but I would chrono it to make sure you meet powerfactor. Last I remember, some of their 9mm weights dropped below minor PF.It seems that they kind of slacked off on the QC department and started skimping on powder charges to keep up on supply with their growing demand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayDee Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 I've shot about 4000 rounds of .40 Freedom reman through my Limited and SS guns. All of it chrono'd at major PF. Used it at SS Nats last spring and chrono'd 171PF, so no complaints in that department. I have experienced 4-5 instances of rounds that did not have enough crimp and the bullet got pushed into the case which prevented feeding. Freedom's customer service was quite helpful and replaced the entire lot of ammo from which the defective rounds came. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucas Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 X I've shot about 4000 rounds of .40 Freedom reman through my Limited and SS guns. All of it chrono'd at major PF. Used it at SS Nats last spring and chrono'd 171PF, so no complaints in that department. I have experienced 4-5 instances of rounds that did not have enough crimp and the bullet got pushed into the case which prevented feeding. Freedom's customer service was quite helpful and replaced the entire lot of ammo from which the defective rounds came. [/quote Out of my first box of 50 rds, I had two failure to feed for the same reason. I also called customer service and was offered the exchange. I decided not to accept and shoot what I had left for practice only. I have not had a failure since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WidowsSon683 Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 You wanna know how much I trust them. Im ordering 1000 rounds. 500 for the oilfield classic and 500 for the Gator Classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpygravy Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 If this is only short term until you get setup to load 40, I wouldn't put too much thought or effort into it. Just buy enough to break in the gun and get you to the point when you can start rolling your own. I don't reload (anymore) so I have a slightly different perspective. I'm 200 rounds into a 500 round evaluation sample for 2 ss guns and 2 limited guns. This first pass was through the primary ss (~150 rounds) and 5" ltd (~50rnds) both AET barrels. Next time it'll be the backup ss and the 6" limited. Both chrono'd a little hot: like 174PF for the SS gun and 176PF for the limited gun. Without adjusting sights, it seemed to shoot a little low at ~15yds. Zero failures on the SS gun. One curious failure to feed in the limited gun where one round did not chamber but flipped around backwards. (Yes, I'm sure I put it in facing the right way.) This is the first ever failure for this gun in about 6k of mostly Atlanta Arms reman 40 (OAL = 1.185) and a similar sample of Expansion Industries reman 40. The AA chrono'd around 170PF through all four guns - though I didn't keep any records of the results. The Expansion chono'd fine - around 170PF in three of four guns. It chrono'd a little lite in my SV SS for some reason and dammit, I didn't keep records of that and now I wish I had. Zero ammo related failures in any of the four guns with the AA (~13K) and the Expansion (another 500 rnd. sample). Guns were sighted in for the AA and the Expansion shot close enough that I didn't notice a difference. Expansion and Freedom are comparable for the same type of ammo. The AA reman is more expensive because of the jacketed projectile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDA Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I shot thousands of rounds of their remans in 9mm and .40 prior to doing my own reloading and never had the first issue with their ammo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HCH Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 I've seen it lock up ARs, blow up a Tavor, (which they replaced), and choke a stock G34. Freedom Munitions will never be run through my guns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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