Ever had problems with factory ammo?

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Opening Poster had 15 boxes of 20 = 300; 30 rounds of this left means 270 fired.
_ four neck splits
_ four blown primers
_ three failed to chamber
That's some kinda fail every 24 or 25 rounds.

Every had problems with factory ammo?
Yes.
But not one every 24 or 25 rounds.
 
I had a Federal HST 230 gr. .45 acp with an unsidedown primer. A buddy at a gun school with me had a S&B bullet that had a nipple on the nose of a ball round that made the bullet too long to fit in a magazine. I had some 5.56 German(?) battlepacks that kept letting go of primers (maybe at a rate of 1 in 100). That was years ago and I would not have even noticed if a primer didn't fall into the trigger assembly and cause a cease of function.

I have had bullets seated too low, but I am not sure that wasn't a shipping/handling issue, still relevant, but a different sort of cause.
 
Yes.
I reload almost all of my shotgun and center fire ammunition, so I rarely purchase any (except for .22LR & .22 Magnum)
Remington - I no longer buy Remington golden bullets. Had many "fail to fire" with them a few year ago.
Winchester .22 magnum dynapoints - would not even chamber in my rifle. Winchester requested I send the box to them. Never heard from them nor did they replace the ammo.
Winchester White Box .38 spl. - have had a least two squib loads with this ammo. Seemed to me like the rounds had no powder in them and the primer was enough to push the bullet into forcing cone & locking the revolver cylinder.
Federal - Had 1 box of bulk .22LR that had many rounds that were under powered. Federal requested I send the box to them. Federal replaced the ammo with an apology.
 
9mm Mag Tech ammo about 10 years ago.
Some of the rounds felt pretty light, didn’t want to cycle my Glock 17L, then one round - BOOM!!!.
Definitely over charged, recoil was stiff, brass hit the overhead hard. Tossed the rest of that box, never bought Mag Tech again.
Had a few Win USA rounds where the cases got crumpled, apparently during bullet seating.
Had a few problems with Win Silvertip 10mm ammo not igniting in a Glock, not an uncommon problem from what I’ve read.
I’ll also admit to one hand load that was a squib. I think I checked a charge with the scale, but forgot to pour it back in the case. Found it there when I got back from the range.
 
I had a case of Winchester Q3131 (55 grain ball) that consistently would not lock the bolt back on my White Oak service rifle upper.

Same upper locked back on EVERYTHING else I fed it.

Very annoying since I bought the ammo for OFFHAND (single-feed/single-shot) practice for highpower rifle competition.

Ammo was purchased about 10 years ago.
 
I had a problem with MFS brand .38 Special ammo.
https://mfs-ammunition.com/about-us/

Bought a bunch from AIM surplus.

In only a partial box of ammo, I experienced seven pierced primers, including one split case (also with pierced primer).
Never had problems of this sort - before or since - with the gun used (Smith and Wesson Model 10).

I contacted AIM, as I had bought a number of boxes. Defective ammo was returned to AIM.
Google search revealed I was not the only one having these problems.

AIM made the situation right.
 
Had a few failure to fire with some federal ar 5.56 in my bolt actionquite a few years ago, had 4 duds with Hornady 55 gr vmax in a 50 rd box, the base to shoulder datum was .015 too short, I resized the cases and all fired.

I stopped using rem corelokt in 243 and 7mm08 due to excessive copper fouling, it took 2 weeks of constant scrubbing to clean it out. I
 
I’ve shot many thousands of rounds of factory ammo and honestly can’t remember any of it being bad outside of some bulk Remington .22LR.

maybe I’m just lucky…
 
Yes. Maybe 20 or so years ago I had a box of factory Remington 44 Magnum. Upon firing about half the cases split. Some I had to take a dowel and knock out of the cylinder. I ditched that box.

Any manufacturer can put out a lemon. Why we as shooters would think it could never happen with ammunition is just silly.
 
Ever had problems with factory ammo?

I can't recall ever having problems with factory ammo. May be because 90% of the ammo I shoot is ammo that I loaded. Even with rimfire ammo, I've never had serious problems. A misfire here and there, but nothing serious. I guess I'm just lucky.
 
I have some Speer 300 win mag factory ammo loaded HOT. Primers flattened to the extreme and ejector marks on the brass.
If it were my handload I'd back off a grain or two for sure.
I'll shoot it out of my Remington 700, but not my Encore single shot. I'd wild ass guess these have to be loaded 65,000 psi.
No pierced primers or hard extraction so I still use them for hunting. Maybe a bad idea.
Have about 80 left.
 
Few times with Remington about 25 years ago. I stopped buying Remington shells and that fixed the problem.
 
Back in the 1970's some of the Federal
30/30 ammo I would buy ( because of the
red plastic ammo holder, and it was like
$6.00 instead of $7.00) the case necks
would split.
Years later some of the Winchester " white
box" 44 magnum split through the case
head
 
I had a box of Winchester White box in 5.56 with a bullet that fell straight out of the shell. When I pulled the shell from the box the bullet just fell out of the case. It was never seated properly. Besides that, I can’t recall any other issues besides a few 22LR with bad primers.
 
To continue about Remington bullets, bad bullet-good outcome. Long time ago I was hunting with my dads Remington 742 for some reason. I was resting in the woods warming my hands when I could hear deer heading my way. Five does and a nice buck cutting through the woods and coming to a clearing in front of me. As I waited each doe popped out of the woods one at a time. After all the Does made it across the clearing the buck started his run across in front of me. I was ready with the gun up and pulled the trigger “click” I started to lower the gun thinking “what the hell!” Then BOOM into the dirt. The shell ejected, the buck stopped broadside. The next shell worked and the buck is still on my wall. This was the last time I used Remington rifle ammo.
 
I haven't but a friend had some factory .300 winmag ammo lock his gun up to the point that the bolt had to be hammered open.
 
I don't think I would shoot any more of that if my failure rate was even half of what the OP's is.

Yes I have had bad factory ammo, but not like that. I had some Winchester white box 45 (I think it was a while ago) and one of the bullets was not in the case. Powder everywhere. I did give each bullet a little pull before loading them.

Buddy had one squib in a factory box, don't remember the brand.

That is it in my 50 years of shooting.
 
Since I purchased my first center fire many decades ago I have reloaded and have purchased very little factory ammo. This summer I purchased a new M1A and also bought (15) boxes of 7.62 x 51mm Winchester Service Grade ammo.

It kind of sounds like you could be shooting 7.62x51 out of a .308 chamber, the former being slightly longer than the latter, hence troubles chambering.
 
The one factory offering I shoot a lot of is 22lr. I was having case head blowouts often with a box of aguilla super extra. I just won't buy anymore and stick to fed automatch for plinking.
 
I recently had a problem with Remington .38Spl. ammo from the same box during a HR218 re-qual session.

One round was hit hard in the primer, but no ignition. The other one, the neck was wrinkled back in one place, causing the round to be too wide to be chambered.
Follow up to this: I called Remington customer service and explained the situation, because of the two problems, I was required to re-shoot two sequences in the course of fire over again using almost another half box of ammo.

She requested I email her an image of the cartridge with the wrinkled neck, which I did. She said they’d send me a check, I should have asked how much at that time. I received a check for $10. Since a box of Remington.38Spl. ammo, according to their site, retails for $41 and I wasted half a box because of this, I feel I was shortchanged.

But I suppose something is better than nothing. I had stopped buying their .22’s because of so many duds, I’ll add their center fires to the no buy list. 24223FDD-974C-4861-A09E-7124324F066D.jpeg
 
Let the manufacturer know. They usually are good about getting back with you and sending you new ammo to replace the bad ones. They will want to know the lot number and other stuff printed on the box. They do have mistakes when their tooling becomes out of tolerance for one thing or another.

Don't expect speed in a response. But the one time I sent in a note about some bad batches of ammo, I got new ammo to replace it along with a gift card for more ammo.

https://winchester.com/Support/Customers/Product-Support
 
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