Purchased a new box of Winchester PDX1 today, rounds are damaged in box *PICS*

[Zaydok Allen]

I really do think loading your own is the way to go. Unfortunately there are some of us that have absolutely nowhere to set up.

 

[buck460XVR]

The issue to me is not the slight dings in the brass in the first two pics....I use worse than that from range pic-ups and they shoot and feed just fine. Could be the pictures, but to me the crimp seems so heavy that the rounds may not headspace on the case mouth. The middle pic almost looks like a roll crimp into a cannelure.

 

[piece of meat]

Never had any problems with any winchester ammo

 

[astra600]

I use Rem. Golden Saber because they chamber like FMJ. Whenever I take the round out of the chamber - for dry firing, playing, admiring of gun - I take a few out of the mag and put that round into the mag so it's not the same one going in the chamber when I'm done playing. It's somewhere down the line in the mag.

WWB is, as mentioned, not the best and has given me trouble in otherwise reliable guns.

I still have a mess of Black Talons. Will have to try them some year.

All the above is 9mm.

I've been getting dud primers from Winchester in my reloads now.

 

[Drail]

Never understand the logic behind taking a rechambered round that may have (most probably) set back from chambering and rechambering and putting it somewhere else in the mag for later. It's still going to be the same problem when it comes up. If a round sets back - don't shoot it. Trash it. Buck460XVR, in most production guns the round doesn't actually headspace on the case mouth. It hangs on the extractor. That's not how it's supposed to work but most guns aren't built to that level of precision.

 

[sakata8242]

Ask Winchester for a refund.
Then go here and buy a box or three of this:
http://www.sgammo.com/product/feder...hst-230-grain-hp-hollow-point-le-ammo-p45hst2
Yeah, it'll cost more up front, but you'll bet set for a while with a few boxes of Federal HST.

Regarding rechambering rounds, I ride the slide forward when I admin load my pistols with defensive ammo. I know, I'm going to get an earful, but they feed just fine and the bullet doesn't get slammed into the feed ramp repeatedly.