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#127549 - 01/28/02 07:50 AM
Re: Is the P7 Blazer Friendly?
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Registered: 06/24/00
Posts: 259
Loc: Oregon
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Geeze guys. Now I really do feel like the mutant. I'm at about the 6,000 round mark with Blazer 115 gr FMJ through my P7s and I've had nothing but good luck with the stuff. I find it cleaner and more consistant than Win White Box (and let's not even talk about that crap from PMC). Never an ammo related failure with the Blazer so far.
Just my $0.02
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#127551 - 01/30/02 07:19 PM
Re: Is the P7 Blazer Friendly?
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Registered: 03/14/00
Posts: 124
Loc: Cuyahoga Falls, Oh USA
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No problems here. M8 or M13
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#127553 - 03/11/02 04:51 PM
Re: Is the P7 Blazer Friendly?
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Operator
Registered: 03/16/00
Posts: 1075
Loc: Austin, TX, USA
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Have you guys noticed that Blazer really fouls the gas chamber? After 200 rounds, I can't even release the slide with the cocker anymore. I suspect that the aluminum is shot into the chamber.
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#127554 - 03/12/02 10:31 AM
Re: Is the P7 Blazer Friendly?
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Registered: 02/13/02
Posts: 75
Loc: Oklahoma City
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A friend of mine in Plano has shot Blazers thru his P7 and after 200 rnds it will jam the slide movement in the piston. After reaming out the gas chamber, Silvery stuff fell out. I would assume the stuff comes from the aluminium casing. I would also assume that the heat from the burning gases would melt some of the the aluminium and cause it to flow into the gas port. The Armorers manual do advice against using Aluminium casing as also mentioned by JimC. Blazers are also light in their loadings as mentioned by SAWBONES. It is a German gun made for German Ammo specs. The 9mm that you get from Germany are a lot hotter than your commercial loads here in the US. For my P7M8, I've been using Military loads for my IDPA Matches. Geco (Dynamite Noble), L7A2 (Hirtenberger), M882 (Federal), DNL (S.African). They are all pretty dirty but they work for me. All of them are Brass cases.
[ 03-12-2002: Message edited by: ChrisNOK ]
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#127555 - 03/12/02 11:39 AM
Re: Is the P7 Blazer Friendly?
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Registered: 10/29/01
Posts: 203
Loc: CT, USA
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I shot 150 rounds of Blazer as a part of my reliability test when I first got my P7, 50X115grain, 50X124grain and 50X147grain. I shot upside down, I tried to limpwrist it (especially in rapid mode), etc. with no issues whatsoever but when I got home and my pistol cooled off it felt rough cycling it - quite a bit of junk in gas system, not really AL shavings, just dirty, inexpensive ammo, that's all. Good enough for plinking @less than $5/box to my door  I carry 124grain Hydras and Hornady XTPs.
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#127557 - 03/13/02 08:47 AM
Re: Is the P7 Blazer Friendly?
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Registered: 02/13/02
Posts: 75
Loc: Oklahoma City
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Agreed CeasarI, Blazers are not worth it to mess around in the P7. The Winchester White boxes are fine and their loads are not too whimpy and for $5 a box, that's just right for plincking. The Winchester Brass are also pretty thick. Great for reloaders.
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#127558 - 07/26/02 01:28 PM
Re: Is the P7 Blazer Friendly?
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#127559 - 03/04/04 12:16 PM
Re: Is the P7 Blazer Friendly?
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Registered: 11/21/03
Posts: 16
Loc: Ft. Worth
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I had a P7 that would not fully cycle with Blazer, but was totally reliable with everything else. Im not knocking CCI, as I shoot 3000-5000 rounds of it per year and actually find it more accurate and consistant than other discount lines, ie Win. White box etc.
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#127560 - 03/04/04 12:18 PM
Re: Is the P7 Blazer Friendly?
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Junior Member
Registered: 11/21/03
Posts: 16
Loc: Ft. Worth
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COMPASSMAN, where are you finding hollowpoint Blazer at that price, I just dont see it around anymore. Thanks
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#127562 - 05/21/04 05:34 PM
Re: Is the P7 Blazer Friendly?
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Sharp Shooter
Registered: 02/28/00
Posts: 791
Loc: Keller, TX, USA
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Try the new Blazer BRASS! It's only $4.99/50 at Academy Sports and I think it is better than the Winchester 100pack Bulk Ammo. My understanding is the Winchester white box is a plated lead bullet whereas the Blazer Brass appears to be a copper jacked bullet.
H&K specifically recommends NOT shooting the Winchester bulk pack stuff due to it's fouling of the suppressor flutes in the MP5SD. I imagine, though I have no first hand experience that this could also foul the gas cylinder in the P7.
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#127563 - 11/15/08 05:35 AM
Re: Is the P7 Blazer Friendly?
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Plinker
Registered: 08/07/06
Posts: 160
Loc: Zachary, LA
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Couldn't help but marvel at the ammunition prices quoted in this thread.
So now, its 2008, times are hard (in more ways than one), and ammunition prices are simply astronomical. But that could be the least of our worries...
BTW... aluminum Blazer didn't do so hot in my first M8; I had two unexplainable malfunctions.
But my bunny fart handload of 3.5 Clays under a 115gr ball bullet, which will not function the wife's P2000 reliably, runs like a champ in both my M8s.
The aluminum cases don't obturate enough to work right in that fluted chamber. They don't work AT ALL in an MP-5.
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