Remington Express Rifle ammo issues

Remington Express Rifle ammo issues - Updated with pic of "duds" - Light strikes?

I bought a box of Rem Express Rifle in 45-70 today and took it to the range to shoot out of my 1895. I had 3 duds out of the 16 rounds I shot. For a $42 box of ammo, this seems pretty bad.

Has any one else had issues with the Express Rifle rounds? I plan on calling Remington tomorrow to let them know, but I'm wondering if it will fall on deaf ears. Has anyone had luck with Remington making good on a bad box of ammo?

Updated: Upon closer inspection, it looks like the dud rounds may have actually had light primer strikes.

Here is a pic of the rounds that did not fire. The 2 rounds on the left fired successfully and the rounds on the right - indicated by my incredible editing skills - are the ones that did not fire. Do these look like light strikes to you? If so, the 1895 will probably be taking a trip to the smith.

Can anyone give me an idea of what the problem may be and an estimate of cost to repair? Firing pin and/or spring?

Thanks for any help

No. The duds were random within the 16 shots I took. The primers not appear to be struck lightly because that was my first thought as well.

Any new help/info from the picture would be appreciated. Thanks guys.

The rifle is new to me, I bought it used a few months ago but yesterday was the first day I've taken it out shooting. It's a pre-remington 1895, year of manufacture is 2000.

I shot 16 rounds through it yesterday.

Just got back from dropping the rifle off at the gunsmith. He said he could take it down and and check it out pretty cheaply.

I had taken the bolt out and cleaned it out around the firing pin, but in the end I decided it would just be better for him to take a look at it before I ended up bringing the whole gun out there in a pile of parts.

Update for any of those interested: I picked up my rifle from the gunsmith yesterday and he took it down and said he could find no issues with the rifle that would cause light primer strikes. I brought the rounds in the above picture with me to ask his opinion and after examining them he thought that they should have fired.

Out of curiosity, I contacted Remington to ask if they've had any issues with the Rifle Express and explained my situation. They took my information and emailed me a prepaid return label and said they'd like to examine the rounds and asked me to return the remaining unfired rounds and the "dud" rounds. They indicated I'd be reimbursed for the box of ammo. We'll see what happens.

I'll find out tomorrow when I run another box of ammo through the rifle. I'm really interested to see what Remington will do now that I've sent the rest of that ammo back. I'm hoping they make good. Those rounds aren't cheap!

geo57 said:

My concern would be the inconsistency of primer dent depth your rifle exhibits.

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I'll keep an eye on it tomorrow.

For anyone wondering: I ran a box of Leverevolution through my Marlin today without single a misfire or hiccup. All the firing pin indents on the primers looked consistently deep. Looks like my rifle is back on track.

Time will tell what Remington decides to do with my box of ammo and if they'll make good on it.