BPS Turkish ammo - bad experience report

[smithers599]

Friend of mine went onto ammoseek.com, looking for cheap 9mm practice ammo. Bought a case of BPS brand. He brought it to the range yesterday, and had -- literally -- 50% failures to fire. Primers well dented but no bang. With two guns (his and mine). Other ammo works fine in both guns. So, it's the ammo. Cycling it through a second or third time does not help. Those rounds are duds. But they were cheap!

So heads up; watch out for BPS ammo (made in Turkey). On the bright side, Turkish president Erdogan has promised to help Hamas, so maybe he will send them some of this stuff.

[kenpoprofessor]

Friend of mine went onto ammoseek.com, looking for cheap 9mm practice ammo. Bought a case of BPS brand. He brought it to the range yesterday, and had -- literally -- 50% failures to fire. Primers well dented but no bang. With two guns (his and mine). Other ammo works fine in both guns. So, it's the ammo. Cycling it through a second or third time does not help. Those rounds are duds. But they were cheap!

So heads up; watch out for BPS ammo (made in Turkey). On the bright side, Turkish president Erdogan has promised to help Hamas, so maybe he will send them some of this stuff.

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Friggin' Erdogan has been an enemy since he came to power, don't know why we continue to protect them. Let them die a miserable muslim death of eating pork until they explode.

Have a great, gun carryin', Kenpo day

Clyde

[Remow2112]

Curious if you tried refiring and of them again and if a 2nd hit fired them?

[XJThrottle]

...Cycling it through a second or third time does not help. Those rounds are duds. But they were cheap!

Curious if you tried refiring and of them again and if a 2nd hit fired them?

[Remow2112]

Sorry, I some how missed that on the first pass. LOL

[QuietM4]

Cheap ammo gets cheap results. Caveat Emptor.

[Yellowcarbon]

Maybe it was a bad batch of primers on their part. But either way, it won't take much to damage the brand. I know I'll avoid it as well as other Turkish brands until I hear over wise. It would be incredible foolish to sour the brand by lack of QC. It'll die pretty quickly unless it is literally 50% of the cost of the cheapest stuff.

[Suck My Glock]

I've seen goof ups where harder rifle primers got accidentally substituted for softer pistol primers. I would be interested to see if reliability improved if these were run through an open-bolt subgun like an Uzi.