Since I shoot so many rounds every month I'm always on the lookout for some ammnition that might save me some bucks.
Two month ago I found a gun show vendor who had some .45 ACP Aguila in stock so I picked up 5 boxes to try it about before ordering a case and I was very impressed with it.
Accuracy was on the par with both 230 grain PMC Bronze and Speer Lawman and the stuff was very clean as well, so I ordered a case online and I ran through a few boxes last night.
The stuff was very inaccurate and inconsistent, with groupings 2 to 4 times larger than those I always achieve; the further the targets, the worse the performance ( shot indoors from 10 to 25 yards).
Naturally I thought I was simply having a bad night because I was getting poor results from 3 of my most accurate pistols; a P220 Super Match, 625-8 Performance Center Revolver, and an E Series 1911TA.
I also brought a few boxes of PMC Bronze with me for comparison and when I shot them through each of the guns, my accuracy returned to what I am accustomed to.
The bottom line; Aguila is cheap, clean, brass cased, ammo, and the stuff looks beautiful out of the box; but I have found it to be extremely inconsistent, ranging from highly accurate to the least accurate ammunition I have ever fired including Tula and similar garbage.
If you want to blast away at sillouettes with inexpensive, brass cased, non bi-metallic mild steel cored bullet, ammo then Aguila is for you.
But if you need any consistent precision out of your range ammo, 230 grain Aguila is probably not for you.
I don't expect match ammo accuracy out of inexpensive FMJ range ammnition; but contrary to my previous experience with this stuff, the Aguila I shot last night provided terrible accuracy in three excellent handguns.
I was really surprised; my first 5 boxes were excellent.