My R9S doesn't like the new Corbon 80gr DPX

[kjtrains]

I have Windows Vista and do find it a little quirky; but so far, it works.

[Cap.]

I think this thread is getting off topic pretty quickly! We gotta keep the pressure up on those guys!

However, I'm a network engineer for a living. Windows 7 is by far the best intial release MS has ever put out (at least the 'released to manufacturers' version is). This is the only new release I've been happy to see coming from MS in my 13 years of prefessional IT.

As for Mac's, they are a really nice machine. But with their BS marketting they are only luring there customers into a false sense of security. They are only putting a target on their customer's backs with their sarcastic 'na na nana naaa! You can't hack me!' attitude.

Once Apple has a larger market share their OS will be exploited en mass, just a like any other common computing software.

Also, what is ivirus and why does Apple sell it?  


OK BACK TO THE CORBON ISSUE!! PM ME IF YOU WANT TO TALK COMPUTING!

[mefly2]

For the Nth time, just send me anything in regular 8mm +P (for Glock) or anything in .40 (for Glocks).  I do not want to beta test new R9 ammo.

Did anyone ever get taken care of by CorBon ... is it too late to just send in the casings from rounds that were unsatisfactory (multiple extractor marks from trying to re-feed) ... or, better to save expending any more effort and just write this off as a bad ammo purchase?

[slashsplat]

Did anyone ever get taken care of by CorBon ... is it too late to just send in the casings from rounds that were unsatisfactory (multiple extractor marks from trying to re-feed) ... or, better to save expending any more effort and just write this off as a bad ammo purchase?

No word yet.  Sending cases would be a waste, as I already did that 9 months ago.  If that is your way to request compensation, you can only glean the proper methodology by talking directly to Corbon.  (My experience is that there IS NO method.)  I certainly cannot advise as to the best approach to getting compensated, as I have been wholly and totally ineffectual at getting my own 4 boxes resolved over 9+ months.

For a company who is selling as much product as they can manufacture, you would think they could afford to handle customer service issues...

Cannot understand how hard it could be to ship four stinking boxes of 9 or 40 ammo to shut me the **** up...  I run a business, and this scenario would be my worst nightmare.  We bust our collective a$$ to respond and act quickly and decisively.  Bad press is VERY expensive, four boxes of ammo (at mfr cost) ain't nothing compared to the impact of Google searches for "CORBON ammo" finding comments like:

   <search google="allow">
"corbon sucks"
"corbon is unresponsive"
"corbon has horrible customer service"
"corbon does not take care of customers"
"I will never buy corbon ammo again"
"Even remington is better than corbon" (SIC)
"corbon ammo did not work at all in my pistol"
"corbon ammo failed"
"corbon ammunition was plagued with FTE and FTF"
"waiting over 9 months for corbon to help me"
"been ignored by corbon for over 9 months"
"corbon ammo won't feed"
"corbon left us hanging"
"corbon EPIC FAIL"
"corbon is professional and responsible: NOT!"
"I'll shoot ammo molded from dog turds before I use corbon again"
"Rather buy Wolf ammo than corbon"
"send corbon to the Taliban, it won't be a threat"
"bad experience with corbon ammo"
"wouldn't shoot corbon ammo if my life depended on it..."
"corbon doesn't give a $hit."
   </search google="allow">

[slashsplat]

And I go to the range AT LEAST once a week.  If I meet 6 people each day I am there, I make sure to relate this issue to at least half of them.  Over the year, that is 150 times I talk about corbon, and how many of those 150 talk to others?  And I am active on AR15.com and other gun sites...  And not shy about sharing WINs and FAILs.  How many boxes of ammo DO NOT get sold?  corbon, do the math.  

And, I DID buy the ammo from Rohrbaugh.  Seems like the people there, who MUST know of this issue, would apply a LITTLE pressure to obtain resolution.  I could have returned the boxes to them, but was instructed to send them to corbon.  Maybe I should now approach Rorbaugh for my money back?  They are the ones who got paid for this ill-tested ammo...   :-/

[MurrayNevada]

Mike from Corbon arranged (I thought) to have 2 boxes of a different caliber sent to me. The cost would have been about equal to the 4 boxes of 9mm I originally bought (including shipping).

When the package arrived it contained only 1 box of the replacement ammo.  Corbon was either out of stock on the other box or decided that one box was enough.  Only time will tell.  At least I now have 1 good box of hunting ammo to replace 4 boxes of unusable 9mm ammo.

[TeamCORBON]

I know I posted this before.

The new bullets keep getting delayed a month at a time.

Anybody who has sent ammo in for replacement, please call the factory (1-800-626-7266) and ask for Stephanie.  She will exchange what you sent back for any other product you want.  

If anybody still wants to wait for the new 95 gr standard pressure load as a replacement, I'm told that the bullets should now be in sometime in November.  

Apologies to all,

[ACP]

Good job from those posting their views as to corbon's failure. I regret that Rohrbaugh factory was involved in this matter and did not give greater assistance.

I will believe corbon's good faith when I read posting(s) that they finally satisfy open claims.

[steel714]

The Remington UMC is NOT the ammo for the R-9. Nothing but trouble with it, FF & jams almost every time. Winchester silvertip 115gr work great, no problems at all except fimding them...

[tracker]

UMC is not the ammo for anything serious except a Glock and to fire it and be rid of it.

[steel714]

My Walther PPS will shoot the Remington all day long but
 forget the R-9S

[Richard S]

Steel74:

You almost slipped in under my radar.  

Welcome to the Forum!

[kjtrains]

Steel74.  Welcome from me as well.  Enjoy the Forum.

[ACP]

Superman:

The reason you are faster than a speeding bullet is because you are competing against UMC ammo.

[slashsplat]

I phoned Stephanie and left a detailed message requesting ANY 40 or 9 replacement.  10 days later or so received four boxes of .40 and a (surprise) COR-BON hat.  I thought the inclusion of the hat was ironic, as I am probably the last person to actually wear one as an advertisement...