Is Winchester White Box Reliable Ammo?

Or try any remaining in another pistol. But I'd give up and go get another box and start over.

I frequently use WWB in my 9mm and both of my .40 caliber handguns. It always works great for me...unless the gun in question is just unreliable no matter what ammo I put into it.

Usually when I'm out plinking I either have Winchester White Box or Remington UMC 250 packs with me, depending on what I can afford at the time.

I recently shot a box (100 rounds) and had three fail to fire. All had good fire pin hits on the primer, just no bang.

I have purchased quite a bit of the W. white-box and have shot a lot of it. It always functioned flawlessly in two different handguns, one being a revolver, the other being a small semi-automatic.

I have shot probably a thousand rounds of WWB through my Beretta PX4 .40 in the last twelve months without a single failure of any kind. Reloading all that spent brass now. My addiction is getting the better of me.

i never had a issue with wwb. all my 9's chew em up. baretta, bdm, 3913 and the 226. thousands and thousand of rounds down range. not one issue. but if its a new gun. you have to break it in. after 4-5 hunderd rounds fired from the 1911, she how it would be running after that.

My new Sig P938 has FTE's with WWB. Shoots American Eagle just fine.
Pistol is new, but I was real disgusted with the WWB in this pistol.

Sometimes an individual gun may not "like" a particular brand of ammo, what with all the variations in case and loaded round dimensions, different powder charges and pressure levels, etc. Try some different ammo. If the gun still malfunctions with a cross section of ammo, however - as I suspect it will - it needs repaired. Feeding-related stoppages are often the fault of the magazine and perhaps not the gun itself.

In my own experience with WWB - several thousand rounds through a Glock, SIG and S&W (both Third Generation and M&P), I can think of perhaps two ammo related stoppages, in this case failure to eject in the Glock.

I am going to try lubricating the gun again immediately before heading to the range, as it was fairly reliable for the first 100 rounds fired and those were fired shortly after I had received, cleaned and lubricated the firearm, while the next 100 rounds were horribly unreliable and were fired a month after I had last cleaned and lubricated the firearm (after the first range trip).

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Keep M1911's well lubricated. Bullseye shooters told me the elbow was the drip point.

I've always found WWB to be purty dern good in my pistols.

WWBs have always fine for me in 9mm and .40S&W, but I have no experience with .45ACP. The brass is among the better non-hyper-priced brands for reloading, too.

Just went through about 400 rounds from Wally-World and a 250 round UMC mega-pack of 250 in my 9s the past week. Working on one and testing, working with a new shooter getting into guns, and range time for my carry guns.


No problems at all from the WWB, primer issues with the UMC of the 250 4 had the primers mashed in sideways and of course didn't work, and 3 light strikes in my Witness, all three fired on the second strike.

Now I have occasionally got a bad round in the WWB, the most noticable was a gase that was too long and prevented the pistol from going into battery, and the occasional fail to fire but no worse than any other cheap practice ammo.

Could be a bad box, I have noticed different headstamps on WWB brass, but I tend to lean towards a problem with the gun.

Now some guns are ammo finicky and that's why I like to try different brands of ammo especially with problem guns.

I had FTEs with WWB value packs on my KT PF9 9mm and it shoots other brands fine.

My Sigma 9mm and my Sig P250c 40sw shot all the WWBs I put in without any problems, both FMJs and HPs. All other ammo brands had been 100% too.

The 9mm isn't very conducive to the 1911 design. The 1911 was designed to work with the 45 acp cartridge. It's not uncommon to have feeding problems with a new 9mm 1911 during the break-in period. This doesn't go for All 9mm 1911's - some are built specifically around the 9mm and are as reliable as any other 9mm auto.
You are going to have to try a different brand (ammo) until you find what it likes.

Any gun that cant shoot white box reliably isn't much of a gun. Just my opinion.

Beaucoup rounds of WWB fired here and no problems, and it's not as dirty as some others.

CmdrSlander said:

FTEs and FTFs.

I am going to try lubricating the gun again immediately before heading to the range, as it was fairly reliable for the first 100 rounds fired and those were fired shortly after I had received, cleaned and lubricated the firearm, while the next 100 rounds were horribly unreliable and were fired a month after I had last cleaned and lubricated the firearm (after the first range trip).

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I suspect you will find that this was your problem. After a month of sitting, your pistol was probably bone-dry. Oil that puppy up and take her back to the range.

Quote= " Oil that puppy up and take her back to the range."

I just want to change out the word "Oil" for the word "Grease" and say...I agree with this advice wholeheartedly!

I always use grease on all my autos...never oil.

I can't even begin to try and answer such a question. I'm literally baffled the question was even asked in the first place.

WWB is pretty much all I put thru my RIA GI 45 and have had no problems at all with it.

I'd check the magazine and try some others (although all my RIA mags have worked fine) and perhaps step up to the next larger recoil spring (18# instead of 16#).

Other than that, I don't know.

WWB is usually all I buy. My .45 and 9mm run flawlessly.

WWB FMJ gives me larger groups than Speer Lawman TMJ ammo, but I haven't had any failures with it using my Springfield MilSpec.