Oh please!?!I once bought a magazine for a .22 Colt that was labeled Colt .45.
Oh please!?!
We can all recognize the "But.... then, I HAD to buy a gun for it!" ploy hidden within that scenario.
Todd.
Bingo! I think we have the winner. That 130 grain FMJ is cheap range fodder. That +P stuff is expensive premium ammunition. I suspect someone just switched one for the other & somehow didn't manage to take advantage of the slight of hand.It's easy to slide a plastic tray of bullets out of one box and into another... .
If it were me, I'd write Winchester (Olin Corp.), provide the lot # and my concerns. It may be that they had too many +P headstamped casings made and not standard on hand. Just as I'm sure that kind of thing will be happening during this time around.Going through my my ammo stash I came across some 38 spl that I bought some years ago. I don't remember exactly when or where I got them but I think it was in the obama years. There were only two boxes of 38 spl on the shelf. One box Winchester 38 Spl, 130 gr. FMJ Target, 100 count. And, one box Winchester 38 Spl. 130 gr. FMJ Target 50 count. I opened the 50 count box and found they were not 130 gr. FMJ Target like the box said. They are 38,spl +P. The 100 count box is correct. Anyone come across anything like that before?
In the photo the +P was put on the box by me.View attachment 969975
Never know for sure but I think you are probably about right. I've been buying ammo off the shelf for over 35 years and never seen or even heard of anything like that happening before. Most likely after it left the factory. But, then again you never know.You guys are way overthinking this. I worked at the LGS. You’d have all kinds of guys pulling ammo out of boxes that were on the shelf. Guess they’ve never seen ammo before. Sometimes they stuff it into whatever box is closest.
Last weekend I bought some carriage bolts for a project. Wanted 2 1”2. Some in the bin were 3”. Somebody had looked at them, threw them back into any random bin. Why should they care? They’re not buying them.
I will not usually buy reloading bullets in a box that had been opened. Too much chance of getting wrong ones back in the box. I did get a box of 960 (originally 1,000) .224’s for $9. I went through and checked to make sure they were correct.
This is the same reason you ALWAYS check to make sure a firearm is unloaded. I don’t care if it’s just been checked by half a dozen people before me.
It’s been known for a ND to happen at a gun show. Do you really think the seller brought a loaded firearm, or is it more likely that someone thought it was funny to slip a live round into a display gun when no one was looking?
When I worked at the LGS, we always cleared the action before handing a firearm to a prospective customer
Love it when those people get caught. pulling crap like that.A number of years ago there were anti gun wackos in the LA area going to gun shows and gun stores and putting live rounds into guns. Most errant rounds were found but there were several ND's as a result and I believe an injury!
Take up reloading and you will not have to deal with such nonsense.
That's probably what happened with the 9mm, but these .22 lr are unopened.Customers will often switch ammo out usually to get better ammo at a cheaper price and leave behind the cheap ammo in the high priced box.
I've seen it often when working in a gun store, and the reason most small shops have the ammo behind the counter or under lock and key.
I caught a guy taking 1 round out of many different caliber boxes, apparently building an ammo collection .
And some hommies send kids into the store to steal 1 or 2 rounds from a box of expensive defense ammo of a certain caliber.
I bought some shotgun ammo at an auction. It was supposed to be new ammo, but turned out to be reloads. But, they looked nearly perfect, so shot them anyway.
I shot half the box. Definitely +P.I would shoot them through a gun rated for 357 just to see what I actually had. If it thumps then it’s the heavier loads. If it’s normal recoil then it’s just JHP ammo.
Don't EVER try to chamber 7.62x45 in 7.62x39 tends to get so stuck in chamber you may have to beat it out with a steel rod.Once I found a single round of 7.62x45 in a box of 7.62x39. Can’t remember what brand of ammo it was, Wolf or Tula I imagine. This was somewhere around 15 years ago so my memory is a little foggy. I’d never heard of the round so it was a fun learning experience for me.