I have been dealing with Dennis Fossey at Precision Cartridge for some time now. Before that, I dealt with the guy he purchased the business from, Johnny Lamer.

Dennis spent years building his business. He has a whole slew of police departments he has been providing with ammo for years, and quite a few ranges around the area. He also does some of the more unusual loads for Graf like light 45-70 for those old trapdoors.

A lot of local businesses have eschewed his ammo because “my customers won’t shoot reloads, they want the real thing”. As if reloads weren’t the real thing. So over the years Dennis has gotten a lot of grief for being the “used” guy. A lot of people wouldn’t trust his ammo because it might somehow be lesser quality than the commercial stuff.

Well, I’ve shot thousands of rounds of it, with zero trouble. I have had, in as many thousand rounds, two cases which split- which, incidentally, chambered and fired well. Never had a misfire or a squib.

Now that ammo is getting tough to come by, the folks at local ranges are showing up. They still have the attitude that the reloaded ammo is somehow not as good as the factory ammo, so they show up with attitude. ‘I have a range. What’s your best price for x ammo?’ Dennis quotes them the full price. “What? No discount?”

Dennis is amused that the people who wouldn’t piss in his mouth if his teeth were on fire when times were good, are now begging to be serviced. He’s not shy about chasing fools out of his facility.

I show up at Dennis’ place with cash. I pay his asking price- which is WAY below the cost of commercial ammo. I know he sometimes don’t have the stuff in stock. So I pay and wait. Today I stopped by for a K of 9, a k of 45, and a k of 223. I’ll have it next week. I paid cash. Had I been able to call and give Dennis some warning, I’d have had it today.