Factory Ammo

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Some new info on this. Different range, different person obviously with a different gun, but was shooting the same ammo (115 grain Remington) straight out of the factory box. Even at this range, no one besides me reloads so I was sucking up all the brass. The case on the far far right was Blazer (he only had one box of 50 of those but none of them were cracked).

There are no bulges or anything when I examined the cases, the pictures and soot residue exaggerate any of those features of the brass. Other than the cracks they otherwise looked pretty normal. Primers looked fine, no overpressure or anything odd.

I have a crap ton of cases, so I haven't reloaded the same ones too many times and have only found 1 cracked one in the last 3000 that I shot and it was cracked at the case mouth. Isn't that normally how cases go? Crack at the mouth and down? These look kind of like rupture cracks. Unless they used some crazy powder or there are a lot of defective guns out there, this looks like crap ammo and cases to me.


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There are no bulges or anything when I examined the cases, the pictures and soot residue exaggerate any of those features of the brass. Other than the cracks they otherwise looked pretty normal. Primers looked fine, no overpressure or anything odd.
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Because case wall rupture relieved the pressure before other parts of the case and primer were affected by pressure increase. ;)

packetloss said:
Different range, different person obviously with a different gun, but was shooting the same ammo (115 grain Remington) straight out of the factory box.
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If that lot number of ammo is doing the same thing in different firearms, Remington needs to be contacted for a recall.

Can you post the lot number?
 
Next time I see someone shooting them at either range I will grab the box. So far I don't have the lot number on them. Unfortunately I didn't notice any of these cracks till I got home and was inspecting the cases so didn't think to grab one.
 
And the shooters will be going home and saying, "Dang, this factory ammo is sure dirty! Black soot everywhere" :D

I wonder what the muzzle velocity and accuracy were ... I bet "extreme" spread :rofl:
 
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