1st handgun! / ammo experience advise (9mm)

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I purchased my 1st handgun and it is in transit via canada post... (CZ75 9mm Shadow Line)...
I am looking for good advise on Factory Ammo... and what to expect the 1st time out at the range.. looking forward to the change from rifle shooting.
 
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Best advice, go to the local store, buy few different boxes of 50, shoot em and see what your gun likes, My Jericho 941 loves Fiocchi FMJ 124, have shot other ammo thru it but that seems the smoothest, my Just Right Carbine 9MM will shoot anything.
 
Get yourself an Uplula speed loader. It's worth it's weight in thumb skin. I've tried four different types of ammo so far and noticed no difference at all between them but I'm not a very experienced pistol shooter. I agree with TheHitman, buy in bulk, most stores will give a 10% discount for a thousand round purchase.
 
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Get yourself an Uplula speed loader. It's worth it's weight in thumb skin. I've tried four different types of ammo so far and noticed no difference at all between them but I'm not a very experienced pistol shooter. I agree with TheHitman, buy in bulk, most stores will give a 10% discount for a thousand round purchase.
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Good advice especially the Uplula loader
 
midnightpossum said:
I purchased my 1st handgun and it is in transit via canada post... (CZ75 9mm Shadow Line)...
I am looking for good advise on Factory Ammo... and what to expect the 1st time out at the range.. looking forward to the change from rifle shooting.
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Excellent selection for a first pistol, IMO. Let us know how it shoots!

Make sure you do a basic field strip and clean before taking it out to the range. You'd be surprised at what can find its way into the receiver and especially into the bore before it reaches you.

Load your mags just as soon as you get them, and let them sit loaded until it's range time: this will help make them easier to load when you're out there. The new springs will compress to their intended working length.

Your new pistol may have teething problems for the first 100-200 rounds, don't be surprised if you get the occasional failure to feed, failure to extract, or failure to eject. It's caused by the spanking new parts breaking in against one another.

As others have said, buy one box of each brand and bullet weight available, see what shoots best. Enjoy!
 
Good advice alpining.

That said, for the first couple hundred break-in rounds, I'd buy the cheapest 9mm I could find and run THAT through the CZ. The reason I say that is until the pistol is broken in, IMO messing with the pistol won't accomplish much.

Once she's broken in, THEN buy boxes of various brands/bullet weights of ammo and see what shoots best!
 
If you are new to shooting pistol, just buy the cheapest ammo you can find and buy lots of it. After you've put a couple thousand rounds downrange, worked the bugs out of your technique and can shoot said ammo to its maximum accuracy, then worry about higher quality. By then you'll realize reloading is the way to go and you'll have a couple thousand pieces of brass to get you started.
 
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If you are new to shooting pistol, just buy the cheapest ammo you can find and buy lots of it. After you've put a couple thousand rounds downrange, worked the bugs out of your technique and can shoot said ammo to its maximum accuracy, then worry about higher quality. By then you'll realize reloading is the way to go and you'll have a couple thousand pieces of brass to get you started.
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+ one on this.
 
I have narrowed it down to 3 choices.. they are as follows
CCI Blazer brass 124gr
CCI Blazer Aluminum 124 gr
American Eagle... 124 gr...
I am not sure about Aluminum though.. as this is a new concept to me...What would you pick out of those 3
Oh... almost forgot .. have to show off my 1st pistol.
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midnightpossum said:
I have narrowed it down to 3 choices.. they are as follows
CCI Blazer brass 124gn
CCI Blazer Aluminum 124 gn
American Eagle... 124 gn...
I am not sure about Aluminum though.. as this is a new concept to me...What would you pick out of those 3
Oh... almost forgot .. have to show off my 1st pistol.
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Nice piece!

I'd go with the Blazer Brass myself. I've had good luck with it, and I find it cleaner than the AE stuff. Some people find problems with ejection with the aluminum cases, so that might not be the best choice for you. Might work though, no way to be certain until you try.
 
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