Perfecta brass...not good

[armoredman]

While depriming/resizing/repriming some range scrounge I found a bunch of empty brass of of Walmarts' new loss leader ammo, Perfecta. I've been told that Fiocchi might be making this stuff. When I checked the brass, I found 2 out of 3 had off center flash holes, a couple so far off center I was curious how well it ignited for the original charge! I'm being to suspect it's not Fiocchi, but AMERC making this stuff...

[1SOW]

Picking up 9mm brass after shooting at my practice range,  I see a TON of Perfecta 9mm brass. 
I haven't tried it 'cuz I have enough of my favorites, Win and R&P.

Too bad Perfectas didn't check well.  There sure is a lot of it laying on the ground.

[357MAGNOLE]

I have been using perfecta mixed in with federal and Winchester brass for the last 6 months. Other than the occasional piece of brass that got stepped on haven't found any issues.

[wtburnette]

Picking up 9mm brass after shooting at my practice range,  I see a TON of Perfecta 9mm brass. 
I haven't tried it 'cuz I have enough of my favorites, Win and R&P.

Too bad Perfectas didn't check well.  There sure is a lot of it laying on the ground.

Probably due to the price.  I know here in Indy my local walmart sells the Perfecta 115gr 9mm for $10.79 a box, which is the best deal going outside of aluminum / steel cased ammo.  My buddy has been reloading off my policed brass and hasn't mentioned any issues with it.  I wonder if the OP encountered a bad batch?

[eastman]

If you look at the Fiocchi Italy website, they list PERFECTA as one of their product lines. (Same font and same "F" larger that the rest of the letters - "F" for "Fiocchi")

Unless they have started subcontracting to a different Italian producer, it should still be Fiocchi manufacture. The PERFECTA .380 is identical to the ammo sold under the Fiocchi label.

[armoredman]

That's too bad - I've always had good luck with Fiocchi. I was able to deprime them without breaking a decapping pin, but I think I will shy away from Perfecta for a while - I only have one decapping pin, after all.

[armoredman]

Here's a quick pic of a "representative piece".

[357MAGNOLE]

Weird. I havent seen that yet and I check each piece of mine. I suppose the factory could have had some tooling slightly offset that day.

[Wobbly]

You could easily break a decapping pin on that one.

 

[jwc007]

Noted!  Perfecta Ammunition = Fire and Forget! 

[razorfish]

I've loaded hundreds of them and had no issues with Perfecta brass. Perfecta is definitely on my "good brass" list.


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[andrew1220]

Interesting you had bad experiences with Perfecta brass. I've reloaded hundreds of Perfecta cases and there were a few times that the primer wasn't completely removed during sizing which prevented my LNL progressive press from indexing. I just had to wiggle the shell plate and raise/lower the ram a bit and the primer fell out. I never really thought much about it until seeing your post. It must be the off center flash holes that were preventing the primers from being completely knocked out. Luckily I haven't broke any decapper pins yet.

[sikacz]

No idea on reloading it, but it shoots fine. I've not had any issues with it. It's a bit dirty. The price is fine. Probably only shot 250 rounds of it.

[357MAGNOLE]

Only thing I have noted, Perfecta seems to be a FULL power load.

[biglou13]

I've had a few off center primers holes also
Otherwise no issues.....not enough of issue for me to cull
I still only cull out cbc and aguilla
If I had more I'd keep them iin the mix...