Prior to the hoarding frenzy, I used to use Monarch steel (from Academy) as my 9mm practice ammo. Out of 35-40 boxes of 9mm, I may have had 3-4 feed failures and no firing failures. I think some of the feed failures could be attributed to weak wristing while firing one-handed w/ the support hand. A lot of the credit may go to the Beretta PX4 which seems to eat anything you put in it. YMMV.Abraham wrote:Stay away from the steel Russian Monarch 9MM.
I experienced a lot of hard primers and it wasn't my pistol. I tried three other brands of ammo since shooting (or not shooting if you will...) the Russian Monarch 9MM and had exactly zero failures. Out of 60 rounds of the Russian Monarch brand I had 7 failures.
The Serbian Monarch brass case ammo is good to go.
Check with Marburgers in Seabrook, sometimes they have reasonably priced 9MM ammo.
