Flyer, I hate to disagree with you, but on the subject of PMC ammo being quaility ammo, I'm going to have to chime in.
I sincerely hope you never have the need to contact PMC due to a problem with their ammo resulting in a blown up gun or serious injury. Bottom line they (PMC) really don't give a turkey - or even a rear part of a rodent. This, in my opinion is due to their Korean roots, and the fact that the ammo is assembeled somewhere else a half a world away, by someone else. I don't know what the folks in Boulder City do, other that act as a warehouse / distribution point for stuff made in the asia, and hang up on (or just ignore) customers with important issues.
My example has nothing to do wth a malfunction in a KT, but please bear with me, it just might save you some fingers or an eye.
We had a customer blow up a NAA .22 magnum revolver in our range, and it was 100% the fault of the PMC ammo. Second shot from a new NAA she bought from us, a primer in the round next to the cylinder firing detonated firing two shots - one wasn't lined up in the barrel, seriously damaging the revolver - and the female shooter's face!
We attempted to contact PMC about this incident 3 times by phone, they hung up on us each time. I sent two emails detailing the accident, with photos of the damage, without response. I finally got them to put someone on the phone and the rather bored sounding supervisor said 'It isn't our fault, there is a defect in the NAA revolver, put the gun and the ammo in a box and send it to us the gun so we can determine what happened' (BTW, this is a violation of federal law for those "non FFL types" out there). Right... so PMC could convinently lose the gun and the ammo that blew it up, and the victim would have no evedence for the impending lawsuit. We finally had to get their attention through the victim's lawyer.
Interestingly enough, about a year later, we were contacted by a gentleman from near Miami who had exactly the same thing happen to him (NAA .22 magnum + PMC Predator ammo = explosion). Except he was permanently disfigured by the incident. The circular base of the .22 that in our range imbedded itself in the wall (I had to dig it out with a pocket knife - PMC logo stamp was still intact) went through this guy's thumb doing severe and permanent nerve damage to his hand. Bottom line was that his thumb became a practically useless appendage after the PMC .22 magnum blow up.
Normally, I would have thought that this would have been the fault of the gun, but I WAS THERE and was the first person to inspect the gun that blew up in our range. I watched it happen on the TV monitor. There were no burrs or errant pieces of metal to cause the detonation of 2 cylinders at once. There was no primer hit on the seperated base of the round I personally dug out of the plywood range divider. This kind of crap should never happen. But what really sealed it for me was the guy that came to visit us, with photos that looked exactly like what I had seen in our range - except his incident lead to a trip the the emergency room.
Both incidents happened with factory new PMC Predator .22 magnum ammo, that was just too darn much of a coincidence - the ammo had distinctly different lot numbers - and they occured about a year apart.
I have a .22 NAA revolver and have fired lots of rounds through it, never having a round fire next to the that should be firing. I've also never fired any PMC ammo in it, but not because of any reason other than I didn't have it in stock at the time - which I am now thankful for.
My point is that in my personal experience (I was the one that PMC hung up on 3 times) PMC is not to be trusted. I'm not saying all their ammo is bad based on the two .22's blowing up that I am aware of, but the simple fact was they wouldn't step up and take any responsibility at all. FWIW, NAA put a new barrel on the revolver free of charge after the lawyers got done.
That's not the kind of people I want to do business with, and BTW, I no longer stock any of their ammo in our range.
