Description
CCI Blazer Brass, 9mm Luger 115gr FMJ
Blazer Brass is CCI’s standard reloadable-brass 9mm line, built around a 115-grain full metal jacket bullet at 1,145 fps and boxed 200 rounds to a case, aimed squarely at the kind of round count a real range session or a training class actually burns through.
Specs
- Caliber: 9mm Luger
- Bullet weight: 115 grains
- Bullet type: Full metal jacket
- Muzzle velocity: 1,145 fps
- Case material: Brass
- Rounds per box: 200
Standard boxer-type primers and primer pockets keep this ammunition straightforward to reload for a shooter running their own press, which can meaningfully lower the cost per round for a shooter putting significant volume through a 9mm pistol over time. The clean-burning propellant and consistent primers keep point of impact and felt recoil predictable round to round, which matters more for drill work and fundamentals training than a boutique defensive load would need to prioritize.
This is a cost-focused range round rather than a specialty or defensive load: the bullet construction is built for reliable feeding and consistent accuracy at the volume a regular range trip or an actual training class demands, not for terminal performance on a target that fights back. A shooter looking for a carry or home-defense round should look at an expanding hollow-point load instead, and reserve this one for the practice and drilling that a defensive round is too expensive to run in volume.
Buying in the 200-round box size rather than a smaller 50-round box is generally the more economical choice for anyone shooting with any regularity, since larger packaging typically carries a lower cost per round and reduces how often a shooter needs to restock before a range trip. For a shooter building or maintaining proficiency with a defensive or duty pistol, running enough practice ammunition to actually develop and retain skill matters more than the specific load chosen for that practice, provided the ammunition feeds reliably in the pistol being used, which is exactly the role this load is built to fill. Shooters should still pattern-test any new ammunition lot in their specific pistol before relying on it exclusively, since even a well-established load like Blazer Brass can behave slightly differently across different pistol models and individual guns, particularly around reliable cycling and point of impact. For anyone new to reloading, saving fired brass from a case like this one is a reasonable way to start building a reloading component inventory before investing in the press and dies needed to actually load it.
