ammo in wrong box?

[scottfrmga]

I bought a box of .300 win mag ammo (rem.corelock 180g) we were out shooting at the range back during the summer and everything was going fine till I tried to chamber another round, the bolt would not lock upon the round. took the round out of the chamber and on the head stamp it had
.300 weatherby now as I do not have a weatherby it could not have came from any of my stuff. looked through the rest of the ammo I found a total of three of the wrong kind.
is it just me or has anyone else had this happen to them

 

[Ohio Rifleman]

Can't say that's ever happened to me, thankfully. I'd imagine that it was a mistake in the factory, and you got a raw deal. It's always a good thing to check your ammo before you shoot it. When I bought my first batch of 7.62x54R, two of the cartridges turned out to be unsafe to shoot. One had a minor crack in the case, the other had a crack in the case major enough to where the bullet just popped right out. If I'd tried to shoot either of those in my Mosin...

 

[Pete409]

The ammo may have gotten mixed up and placed in the wrong boxes while at the gun store. Some doofus may have been looking at 2 or more different kinds of ammo at the same time, and when he put them back into the boxes, he got some of them in the wrong box.

 

[cobrian45]

I think Pete409 is most likely correct. I can't believe that could happen in packaging at the factory. OR maybe I just don't want to believe. I think they do production in batches and shouldn't be doing two calibers like that at the same time. Then again, I don't know jack about mass production of ammo, I'm just thinking logically.

Was the headstamp for the Weatherby caliber a Remington case? (R P should be stamped if it was, then the caliber) If so, this is a new one for me. If it isn't a Remington produced case, then it most definitely was switched some time after packaging.

 

[308win]

Or some twit could have intentionally mixed the ammunition; stranger things have been done.

 

[hksw]

Welcome aboard.

Was the ammo bought at a shop or a show? Possible someone put it in the wrong bin or some ammo got hung up in production and fell into the next different caliber batch if from a shop or someone put the ammo in the wrong box at a show (intentional or unintentional).

In any case, tell Rem about it and get a free box of ammo. Luckily, the ammo was not close enough in size to chamber and not a slightly larger caliber.

 

[scottfrmga]

the ammo was bought at wally world, I am glad it was not rem. in a weatherby box. being slighty smaller the bolt might have closed and I would have tried to fire it

 

[kd7nqb]

I was at a gunshow once and found 2 9mm rounds in a box of .40 the boxes were on a table and available for public display. I pointed it out to the guy running the table he felt pretty bad and got me a box of .40 from behind the counter and gave me 10% off.

 

[Tommygunn]

Circa 1993 I was at a range in Connecticut whewre I used to live firing aUberti repro of the 1873 Winchester in .44-40. As I was having the brass reloaded at the time, I collected each case after I fired a magazine full. I picked up one case with a mystery bulge; the sides had expanded in a "convex" shape. Whaaaaa????!!! Now, that just doesn't happen.
I looked at the headstamp.
.41 MAGNUM.
Now, the ammo had been bought new, it was Remington ammo, as I said in .44-40.
No damage was done to the rifle. Thankfully the bullet didn't obturate the bore and a lot (!) of the extra pressure of the magnum round escaped around the bullet.
I sent the spent case off to Remington who couldn't figure out what happened ... but they did send me a check toward a new box of ammo. I also had a gunsmith I knew examine the rifle and he said it hadn't been damaged. I didn't think it had ... but having a pro check it out eased my mind.

 

[doc2rn]

I bought a brand new box of .45 for my 1911, the 50 pad not the bulk pack, and found a 45 GAP at one end of the tray. It happens at the end of some runs, and that is why I always check my ammo.

 

[Onmilo]

We put our ammunition behind the counters because goofballs would mix cartridges in the boxes when we had it sitting out, open to the customers.

I wouldn't say it was intentional, just cases of not paying attention to what went where.

 

[grimjaw]

This is one of the reasons that some places have signs near the ammo that read "DO NOT OPEN BOXES."

jm

 

[CNYCacher]

This is why stores will not take ammo back for refund either I suspect.

If I'd tried to shoot either of those in my Mosin...

What would've happened?

 

[Ohio Rifleman]

Well, CNYCatcher, I'd imagine if the bullet wasn't properly seated (so loose, it could simply pop out) that it would malfunction somehow. I'm not terribly well-versed in kabooms and the like. Do you think I would've been alright if I'd tried to put those rounds through my Mosin?

 

[kurtmax]

I normally inspect my ammo a cartridge at a time after I buy it. Then inspect it again when I load it into mags.

 

[ClickClickD'oh]

Try this one on for size:

Cables bulk ammo buy. You know the kind that comes with the free dry box (really useful boxes) I ordered one of the bulk boxes of .308 to run through my Saiga just for practice before deer season. Well, the brown van of happiness shows up and what do I have? A dry box labeled .308 with 9mm inside. ***? I was pretty upset until I did the math and realized I had gotten a pretty good deal on several hundred 9mm which I was kinda low on at the time.