Review Farrar Ballistics 38 SPC reman

[Erick]

Bought 1000 rds ammo to support a nice handgunning weekend and was really looking forward to shooting it.



Came in 10 packs of 100 rds each inside a box.



But sadly Locked up my cylinder almost every time.

Tried it again on another revolver this weekend while opening a different bag hoping for a better result, this was when shooting with a friend at his house, this locked up this other revolver as well. ...

cylinder would not turn once again after shot 1.

- That Saturday evening I then hand selected out the most questionable looking rounds (pressure lines in brass, dents in brass) .

This removed about 20% of rounds of the next 2 bags. Again next morning I was still unable to shoot a single 6 shot drum... revolver locked up halfway thru the trigger pull.

an expanded case was clearly obstructing the turn of the cylinder.

Likely IMO cause , using too many times reloaded brass.



Company owner says its "the guns fault" says GP100s are "unreliable " and the dents i spotted in some rounds are FEDEx fault ..

This all that despite the fact that my GP has shot 100 s of trouble free rounds the previous weekend and then locking up with this ammo and his ammo only.



My buddies ancient 38 SPC Ammo functioned perfect afterwards as did my newer Fiocchi 125gr.

I was unable to complete even a single drill with this ammo.

This Ammo is badly faulty.. I have never experienced something like this before and to think I almost cached it..

Verdict.. not even nearly good enough to be training Ammo.



Sad the guy would not take it back, he responded to my email on this and to a previous request for tracking number quickly + well after business hours which impressed me so I really wanted to like this ammo.



But it is simply unusable Ammo.

Since the company is not taking it back I will give the remaining 960+ rounds to a buddy to pull bullets and powder for reloading.

[USMC0331]

Criminal business behaviour... sorry to hear about it. Did the owner at least tell you what powder they use?

[Erick]

Jul 28, 2014 20:28:53 GMT -5 USMC0331 said:

Criminal business behaviour... sorry to hear about it. Did the owner at least tell you what powder they use?

No. So we may not be able to use powder.

[Erick]

Update:

my reloading buddy told me that "some primers are seated high and not flush or below so the primer is catching/dragging as the cylinder indexes"

its too dangerous to reseat primers on loaded rounds so he will look for the problem kids and take those fully apart and then reassemble

[Erick]

Update : after removing the visually faulty rounds using the parameters above I still get about 10% bad ammo when I shot the remainder.
The Ammo that does fire is quite accurate though.
go figure.

Farrar seems to be doing some of the hard stuff well, but failing at the basics

[Erick]

Did a bunch of updrills with this handgun this weekend shooting this ammo.

Still run into bad ammo that needs ot be sorted out.
Threw away about 20 out of 170 rds I brought 

[Erick]

Update.
Stuff is still junk even after carefully culling the obvious badly seated primers and overused cases.

Cannot be used even as training ammo.
Looking to give it away right now.